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2008-05-07 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Besoeker 2008-05-07 04:33|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Great info from the General. He's definitely an RB'er in spirit. One comment, if oil from ME were cut off, even the lefties would agree to offshore drilling here. There's a lot of oil in offshore basins and in Carribean. Tough and expensive to extract because it's deep. But when you really need it, we could get it. Also, the finds in Sugar Loaf off Brazil are only 20,000 ft. down. We've extracted deeper than this, so it's doable.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter 2700 2008-05-07 09:49|| 2008-05-07 09:49|| Front Page Top

#2 This reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw on my way to work today: an odometer with "IRA" and a "Q" rolling over to an "N". Of course, judging from the other stickers on the car, it was an anti-war statement, but my first thought was: faster, please™.

Posted by xbalanke 2008-05-07 10:10|| 2008-05-07 10:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Bravo, sir.

Posted by OyVey1 2008-05-07 13:11|| 2008-05-07 13:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Ergo: seize the Middle East oil fields by any means necessary to that end. No? Muslims cannot and do not recognize any form of secular sovereignty; they believe that it belongs to their nominal deity. So why should we recognize their claims, based on "calipha" (succession) privilege? In fact, the House of Saud has roots in only a tiny section (Negd) of what is now Saudi Arabia. That perverse entity was granted sovereignty to serve as a local power, in service to Anglo-American interests. As with all Muslim entities, it perverted its assigned role. And, with the Soviet order collapsed and the UN order crumbling, there is nothing to stop repatriation of the oil fields. Should they try the Saddam solution and fire the fields, that would be an act of war inviting annihilation, which is exactly what the House of Saud would get. As for the Kuwait fires, they were all put out in 6 months; in most cases that time span was necessitated only by lack of equipment and manpower.

The Persian Gulf emirates would bend quickly. As for Iraq and Iran, abandonment of any hearts-and-minds or democraticization scheme, would enable harsh control means. It would not be difficult to maintain an exclusion zone around captured oil fields. As for manning the pumping station, there are thousands of non-Muslims from East Asia who could take on work assignments on short notice.

Universal security is not an option in a territorial entity, where Wahabist and Khomenist elements compete in terror export. Frankly, Arabs and Persians - and their demographic pig pens - can go to hell. We have the means to reduce them to the bit player role that those savages deserve. And the sooner that Mecca and Medina and Qom and Karbala are turned into nuclear wastelands, the better.

I know the counter arguments...but out values dictate. Our "values" dictated the nuclear annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the charcoaling of Tokyo (200,000 killed in one day). The "values" argument is Jimmy Carter spew. Save it for politically near sighted morons.

Posted by Eohippus Creresing2815 2008-05-07 16:34|| 2008-05-07 16:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Good article - I concur. Thanx for the post Besoeker.

Posted by Snash Oppressor of the Mohammatans aka Broadhead6 2008-05-07 16:35|| 2008-05-07 16:35|| Front Page Top

#6 "#4 Ergo: seize the Middle East oil fields by any means necessary to that end."

That could have been easily done in 1991. Our leadership didn't even have the stomach to annihilate the Republican Guard (TV footage was getting icky - remember the "Highway of Death"), take Baghdad, or support the Kurds and Shia after encouraging them to overthrow Saddam (until the TV footage of tens of thousands of Kurds fleeing into snow-filled passes got icky again).

You really think we'd ever have the machiavellian leadership required to do what you suggest? Hah!

Posted by Kirk 2008-05-07 18:55|| 2008-05-07 18:55|| Front Page Top

#7 ION IRNA > NORTH SEA OIL OUTPUT STILL IN DECLINE AMID INVESTMENT FEARS [New Wells]. NINE YEARS, versus LONDON's 16-25 YEARS, of estimated oil production???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-05-07 19:53|| 2008-05-07 19:53|| Front Page Top

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