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2007-01-09 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran threatens to block strategic oil strait

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Posted by Fred 2007-01-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Gee, that's kinda inconvenience the Chinese, won't it?

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-01-09 00:33|| 2007-01-09 00:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Duh, just in case you hadn't noticed dumbf**k, there are two carrier strike groups floating there to prevent this little trick.

Posted by SpecOp35 2007-01-09 01:36|| 2007-01-09 01:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Go ahead, make my day.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-01-09 02:01|| 2007-01-09 02:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Bold but stupid words for a country that imports its gasoline and relies on oil exports for money. Maybe they are planning to switch to a sand-based economy when push comes to shove.

Posted by SteveS 2007-01-09 06:34|| 2007-01-09 06:34|| Front Page Top

#5 These guys are spun, they live in a total fantasy world.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-01-09 08:59|| 2007-01-09 08:59|| Front Page Top

#6 ...Man, for people so obsessed with history, they got lousy memories. Do they remember at all what happened the LAST time they tangled with the USN?..

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-01-09 09:01|| 2007-01-09 09:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Exerting "pressure" is one thing, relieving it is another.

And what's with a "senior officer" in the "volunteer" militia? I know a few Kentucky Colonels - do they count?

Posted by Floluling Unerong3859 2007-01-09 09:07|| 2007-01-09 09:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Exert pressure, relieve pressure....sounds like passing gas.

Posted by Jomoling Sliper1304 2007-01-09 10:24|| 2007-01-09 10:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Exert pressure, relieve pressure....sounds like passing gas.

Posted by Jomoling Sliper1304 2007-01-09 10:28|| 2007-01-09 10:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Once again. It's all posturing because they need to fluff the price of oil.

Posted by Penguin 2007-01-09 15:03|| 2007-01-09 15:03|| Front Page Top

#11 "The hills are alive (around Bandar Abbas) with the flame of napalm..."

Sure, guys, go ahead. Now, meet Mr. Sledgehammer flights I, II, and III. Oh, and you can't do sh$$ when you're dead.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-01-09 19:57|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-01-09 19:57|| Front Page Top

#12 Dinnerjacket is working off the principle of inductive reasoning. He has made repeated threats, the West has flinched repeatedly. He keeps making threats, Europe flinches. So he keeps up the same behaviours. But there are carrier groups in the neighborhood. There are Marines sailing to the theater. And there is quite a gaggle of B-52s and their crews with the necessary munitions being maintained in Diego Garcia.

Bottom line: the world will not let this little big mouthed maggot take away a great percentage of its life blood. So, do you feel lucky today, punk?

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-01-09 21:50|| 2007-01-09 21:50|| Front Page Top

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