We destroyed the Nazi, Fascist Italian and Imperial Japanese oil infrastructures with crude propeller powered aircraft against long distances, terrible flak and enemy fighters but we can’t destroy ISIS’s oil system when we’re armed with supersonic and stealth jets, special forces, drones, missiles and lasers? That tells me that someone pretty high up (cough, cough) doesn’t want us to.
How about a new UN Food For Oil program? The first one worked out so well.
The mention of oil makes one wonder if ISIS struck a deal w/ neocon godfather--Richard Perle---who was staring his own oil company in Iraq----according to the WSJ.
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REMINDER The US left Iraq with not a barrel of oil to our name.....and rivers of young blood spilled on its decrepit soil.
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The war profiteering was mind-boggling. Pres Bush estimated the Iraq strike would cost $50-60 billion.....then Bush publicly fired his aide, Larry Lindsey, because Lindsey dared to say the war might cost more like $100 billion. That was in 2007 dollars.
Today we know the has poured into Iraq and Afghanistan some $3 TRILLION, and we're still pouring money down these rat holes........thanks to Richard Perle and rest of the neocons.
REFERENCE POINTS---Circa 2008, the WJSJ reported Perle was talking with a Turkish firm, AK Group International, and also a representative from the government of Kazakhstan. They are targeting the co-called "K18 concession" which is near the city of Erbil and is estimated to hold 150 million or more barrels of oil.
Houston-based Endeavour International would conduct the exploration and drilling, according to the Journal.
During the run-up to the Iraq war, Perle was chairman of the Defense Policy Board, which advises the US Pentagon. He was also a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think-tank in Washington.
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MOMENTS TO REMEMBER--- On the eve of the US invasion of Iraq, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee heard testimony from Marine Corps Gen Anthony Zinni---and other US military experts ---that the so-called architects (they dared not say "neocon") of the Iraq invasion were totally ill-prepared for a post-combat occupation.
US military experts ridiculed the Bush administration claims that rebuilding could be achieved within two years, that the weapons of mass destruction would be destroyed-------and that a vibrant new political and economic system would emerge.
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REMINDER: The neocon agit-prop was that these antediluvian Mideast countries, w/ ancient rivalries, were "thirsting" for Western-style democracy.
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Over a decade later, Iraq---and the rest of the Mideast----has yet to create a viable political and economic system....a system that is totally incompatible w/ their archaic Islamicist thinking macerated in the vengeful dicta of the Koran.
The rise of ISIS is a frightening reminder of Marine Corps Gen Anthony Zinni's words.
We haven’t wrecked it yet?
ISIS’s oil business needs to be pressured with large bombs and cruise missiles.