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Bill Clinton: We May Have to Blow Up Oil Well
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Posted on 06/28/2010 5:22:58 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Bill Clinton: We May Have to Blow Up Oil Well Posted by Brian Montopoli 13 comments

Former President Bill Clinton said during a panel discussion in South Africa that it may become necessary to blow up the Deepwater Horizon well that continues to spew oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

"Unless we send the Navy down deep to blow up the well and cover the leak with piles and piles and piles of rock and debris, which may become necessary - you don't have to use a nuclear weapon by the way, I've seen all that stuff, just blow it up - unless we're going to do that, we are dependent on the technical expertise of these people from BP," Clinton said.

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To: Sub-Driver

From “Just plug the damn hole” to “Blow it up”. They’ve got it covered.


21 posted on 06/28/2010 5:42:01 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: Sub-Driver

So do we call this the Big Lewinsky?


22 posted on 06/28/2010 5:43:29 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: Sub-Driver

What?
No Ice?


23 posted on 06/28/2010 5:44:12 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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To: pfflier

“Yeahhh; that’s the ticket!”


24 posted on 06/28/2010 5:44:52 PM PDT by pingman (Price is what you pay, value is what you get.)
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To: Sub-Driver; All

Aww Geez, do we have to put the words “Clinton” and “blow” in the same headline again?

1990’s redux...........


25 posted on 06/28/2010 5:45:46 PM PDT by TheRobb7 (BLAMING BUSH NEVER FED A HUNGRY CHILD.)
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To: Rome2000
I wonder if we have the technology to build a gallows large enough to hang all the members of both of these administrations

How about heavy gauge steel chain and some cinder blocks. Let's give them all a closer look that the oil "spill"...

26 posted on 06/28/2010 5:46:23 PM PDT by Michael Barnes (Call me when the bullets start flying.)
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To: pfflier

It is unfortunate. We are at a loss.


27 posted on 06/28/2010 5:47:23 PM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: Michael Barnes
How about heavy gauge steel chain and some cinder blocks. Let's give them all a closer look that the oil "spill"...

On second thought, bad idea. democrats have a propensity to vote early AND often when dead.

Space, that's where they need to go. Anyone know of an impending supernova far, far out in the reaches of darkness? I'll settle for a super-massive black hole as well.

28 posted on 06/28/2010 5:48:31 PM PDT by Michael Barnes (Call me when the bullets start flying.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Clinton obviously has the terms, Blow, Blowing and Getting Blown mixed up.
29 posted on 06/28/2010 5:49:12 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Obama, proving Hillary right that it takes a Village Idiot.)
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To: Sub-Driver

“Unless we send the Navy down deep to blow up the well”

I guess that would be Mabus


30 posted on 06/28/2010 5:51:57 PM PDT by Selene
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To: pfflier

“From “Just plug the damn hole” to “Blow it up”. They’ve got it covered.”

Has bammy kicked a$$ yet?


31 posted on 06/28/2010 5:52:19 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - 11/2010, 11/2012 - Tea Party like it's 1773 & pray 2 Chronicles 7:14!)
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To: Sub-Driver
After all, he is a fully licensed nook-yoo-ler engineer.

Oh, no, wait...that's the other one.

Can we send them down in a sub?

32 posted on 06/28/2010 5:52:23 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: Sub-Driver

It really is surreal.

What’s he know, anyway? Like he’s some sort of geological hydrodynamics, drilling engineer expert.

Was he drunk when he said this?


33 posted on 06/28/2010 5:58:30 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (Time for a new tagline)
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To: Boardwalk

When clintoon becomes involved I get worried.


34 posted on 06/28/2010 5:59:01 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: Sub-Driver

Blowing is a subject Bill Clinton knows a lot about


35 posted on 06/28/2010 6:02:54 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Sub-Driver

Problem is that if you start exploding the hole, unless you manage to fill it back up with “piles and piles and piles of rock and debris”, all you have then is a bigger hole. I’m no expert, but I think getting debris into a hole that’s
a: thousands of feet below the surface
b: gushing out a viscous fluid at high pressure
is not easily done.

Politicians offering silver-bullet solutions has a bad track-record of panning out.


36 posted on 06/28/2010 6:03:29 PM PDT by SwedishConservative
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity

“Can we send them down in a sub?”

Jimmy, Bill & Barry...right on! Maybe one of them NK subs with the nuke devise welded to the sub...


37 posted on 06/28/2010 6:11:17 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
Well, Slippery Bill certainly continues his rocket-ride toward the bottom of the list of US Presidents.
"Unless we send the Navy down deep to blow up the well and cover the leak with piles and piles and piles of rock and debris, which may become necessary - you don't have to use a nuclear weapon by the way, I've seen all that stuff, just blow it up - unless we're going to do that, we are dependent on the technical expertise of these people from BP," Clinton said.
Thanks Sub-Driver.


38 posted on 06/28/2010 6:13:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: hometoroost

I guess he’ll pass this job onto Monica.


39 posted on 06/28/2010 6:16:43 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

He actually is close to the answer which is a 5 megaton nuke (easily guided in by a US Sub). Leak over. We fired these thing under water by the dozens and no lasting effect but by God we better do something!! Close the damned hole!!!


40 posted on 06/28/2010 6:26:59 PM PDT by mpeters
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