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2019-10-26 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Pentagon chief: US troops, armored vehicles going to Syria oil fields
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Posted by trailing wife 2019-10-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11146 views ]  Top
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#1 This makes sense. Stolen oil is where ISIS gets its funding and stolen oil props up the muzzist gummint in Turkey. Strangle em both.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-10-26 00:40||   2019-10-26 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 And, US Army gets to play to its strengths.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-10-26 00:42||   2019-10-26 00:42|| Front Page Top

#3 As long as the oil field force has U.S. air support, everything will go as planned.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-26 02:07||   2019-10-26 02:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Deters the Russians from trying to seize the oil fields again.
Posted by Pancho Flerens6518 2019-10-26 02:15||   2019-10-26 02:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Yes, CHVK Wagner Group, a Russian private military company (PMC) experienced a very rude awakening near a Syrian oil field back in Feb of 2018.

The Russian doesn't have much, but he has a pretty good memory.

Newsweekarticle found here.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-26 02:21||   2019-10-26 02:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Because God forbid there is some oil supply in the world that is not controlled by the globalists. Jesus Christ. It's like a parody of what the antiwar protesters said about the Iraq war, only this is for real.

"Let us put Americans to death in a meaningless war to save the precious oil!" We're really in clown world.
Posted by Herb McCoy  2019-10-26 03:18||   2019-10-26 03:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Ref #6: Please consider comment #1 in some depth and get back to us later in the day with your follow-up assessment.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-26 03:25||   2019-10-26 03:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Being Herb means never having to think deeper than a slogan
Posted by Frank G 2019-10-26 07:46||   2019-10-26 07:46|| Front Page Top

#9 Being Herb means never having to think deeper than a slogan

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Posted by Skidmark 2019-10-26 08:12||   2019-10-26 08:12|| Front Page Top

#10 When you actually think things through, you discover some situations are messy. As HL Mencken said, "Every problem has a simple, easy to understand wrong solution."
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-10-26 08:22||   2019-10-26 08:22|| Front Page Top

#11 It's like a bad parody of what the Left thinks the US government does. "We must seize the oilfields" I used to make fun of them for that shit. But now here it is.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-10-26 08:45||   2019-10-26 08:45|| Front Page Top

#12 Let ISIS have the oil. Let Turkey buy it cheap to prop up their failed muzzist economy. It's like legalizing fentanyl because dead kids are preferable to a prison state. Does that about cover it, Herb?
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-10-26 08:59||   2019-10-26 08:59|| Front Page Top

#13 I don't want endless, needless war at all. But our neighborhoods look like hell if we don't cut the grass. Capice?
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-10-26 09:03||   2019-10-26 09:03|| Front Page Top

#14 our neighborhoods look like hell if we don't cut the grass

Desert landscaping is both eco-friendly and maintenance lite...
Posted by Skidmark 2019-10-26 10:05||   2019-10-26 10:05|| Front Page Top

#15 I'm sure turning it into a nice sheet of glowing radioactive glass would be entertaining.
Posted by Silentbrick 2019-10-26 10:20||   2019-10-26 10:20|| Front Page Top

#16 I'm sure turning it into a nice sheet of glowing radioactive glass would be entertaining.

Entertaining, oh yes. But the only way they learn is if you give em that 7th century they want. No water, electricity or modern medications. They can send a guy on a camel when they tire of it.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-10-26 10:33||   2019-10-26 10:33|| Front Page Top

#17 Syria isn't "our neighborhood". American national and strategic interests in Syria are utterly nonexistent.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-10-26 13:45||   2019-10-26 13:45|| Front Page Top

#18 "I don't give a rat's patoot that somebody shot Archduke Ferdinand (who?) in a country nobody ever heard of. If it didn't happen in my neighborhood, I don't care."
Posted by SteveS 2019-10-26 13:57||   2019-10-26 13:57|| Front Page Top

#19 Yes, it doesn't even have to be a successful hit. We went to Iraq because Saddam allegedly tried to whack Poppy. I suspect the CIA did the alleging.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-10-26 16:06||   2019-10-26 16:06|| Front Page Top

#20 John Brennan did the alleging you mean. He was in charge of ME Ops back in 2002-2003. Funny how he screwed up so bad and still found his way into the Directors Chair.
Posted by Charles 2019-10-26 17:16||   2019-10-26 17:16|| Front Page Top

#21 No
They killed Baghdadi!
Posted by 3dc 2019-10-26 23:41||   2019-10-26 23:41|| Front Page Top

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