Good aim, Ivan!
Posted on 08/09/2008 9:11:27 AM PDT by library user
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TBILISI (AFP)--Russian warplanes on Saturday staged a raid near a major international oil pipeline that runs through Georgia but didn't damage it, Georgia's prime minister said.
The 1,774-kilometer Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan, or BTC, oil pipeline is the world's second longest and takes oil from Azerbaijan to Western markets.
"The area of the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline was bombed by Russian planes," Lado Gurgenidze told Georgian television. "Miraculously the pipeline was not damaged."
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No blood for oil, you Russian peace keepers!
Too bad they couldn’t shoot those planes down.
Guess the oil bubble really has popped and they need to prop-up prices with a crisis.
Not this time anyway.
Bush’s Fault!
I've been thinking that too. It's only a matter of time before some left-wing Democrat shill comes up with a line of reasoning that somehow (a) lays this off on President Bush and (b) is not totally off-the-wall loony-tunes sounding. When that happens, every MSM commentator and talking head will pick up the line and babble it into the echo chamber.
The libs are supporting the Russian invasion since Georgia is a so called “puppet “ of the US. Amazing.
the energy war takes on a heightened awareness.
Russia wants to control the flow of oil to Europe. That way they can blackmail them by threatening to cut off their oil if the Europeans don’t obey the Kremlin’s whims. That’s why they’re arming Iran with missiles and nukes; so the mullahs can do the same to the major oil-producers in the Middle East.
This move by Russia was about oil. The Energy War has begun.
“Prime Minister” Vladimir Putin just showed up in Vladikavkaz (South Ossetia) “discuss the influx of refugees” from the battles. Yea, right. Looks like we know who is still running the show.
Smart statement. I agree.
Where did you read or hear that (not that it would surprise me).
“Prime Minister” Vladimir Putin just showed up in Vladikavkaz (South Ossetia) “discuss the influx of refugees” from the battles. Yea, right. Looks like we know who is still running the show.
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“I looked into his eyes and saw his soul.” George Bush about Putin.
President Reagan warned the Euro peos about this Russian pipeline. They didn’t listen because they were not about to take advice from us hated Americans.
Good. Go pound sand Euro peos.
“This move by Russia was about oil. The Energy War has begun.”
It really seems that way doesn’t it?
Dear George, look in his eyes now. What did you miss before that we’ve all seen all along?
Sad part is neither the GOP or DNC will handle this situation properly. Too much Liberal Free Trade Globalist pandering and stupidity.
The gossip on the street said that Putin replied in private, “I looked up his a$$ and found his brain.”
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