nothin' wrong with a "double-barrel ping"...
Posted on 06/22/2004 6:31:13 AM PDT by Constitution Day
Tick tock tic toc... 130 days to go when the Islamo-Commies' sphincter muscles should get tighter than 72 virgins on Sunday.
Also, oil just wouldn't rise to $60. At some point between $40 and $60, you'd have a lot of extra production come on line, from Mexico, Venezuela, Texas, Alberta, the Urals, Alaska and Oklahoma. It may not make much sense to pump it out of these places at $40, but at $45 maybe, or at $50....
Our good friends the Saudis will save us.....
Actually, that would translate into about $3-$3.50 a gallon. Kerry for president would be a disaster for the entire world of free people.
If $42 crude=$2.10 gasoline, I'd say $60 crude would be something less than $5.00 gas.
We'll give them plenty of radioactive material if they really want it.
: )
If Mr. Ledeen has a single shred of evidence to support this assertion, then I'd love to see it. Until then, I'll give these meanderings no more credibility than I'd give Slick Willie's book.
I totally agree, it is.
Didn't I read that the Navy has quite a few carriers at sea now, many more than usual?
Not really. Iraq was sold to him as a huge win-- saving the world from Iraq's WMD stockpiles and having most every Iraqi shower us with flowers and gifts with their liberation and the shiny new Arab democracy as a ray of hope to all. When he declared "Mission Accomplished," attacking Iraq looked like a brilliant move. I recall Chris Matthews talking about how we're all neo-cons now, because of how popular going to war was at that time.
A nice chance for Blair to shore up his popularity, if he acts strongly and effectively here. If he doesn't defend his boys, his popularity will fall even lower.
lol
Are they prepared to have their culture set back a thousand years?
No, wait a minute: it already IS a thousand years behind...
BTTT!
I agree that Bush is not Kerry and Kerry may not have had the nerve to go to war in Iraq. But Bush is still a politician and I would be really surprised to see any military response to Iran before Nov. I may be in for a surprise but the polls show the race is still too close to call an early victory.
Why are we automatically assuming that there is any need for a "military response" at all? Based on what I've read about this incident, it appears that these British sailors were captured in Iranian waters. I would hope the U.S. Navy would have done the same thing back in the 1970s if some Soviet trawler were laying marine detection equipment across the mouth of New York harbor.
There is a set date for US troops to leave and Iranian troops are massing on the Iraqi border.
Sure doesn't sound good for the Iraqi provisional government.
nothin' wrong with a "double-barrel ping"...
Well Iran supports terrorism. George Bush is fighting a war on terroism. Maybe Iran had the right to do what it did but with the new developments regarding their attempts at obtaining plutonium this places them in a very negative light. How else do you fight a war on terrorism ? Look at what Sharon has done in the last couple of months and it seems to be winning.
Horsefeathers! The Iranians could much more eaily use their network to sabotage the pipelines within Iraq without involving the British and by extension the Americans.
The Assahollahs are dangerous but not stupid.
I'll quote this one bit in particular:
And why, you might ask, did the Iranians feel threatened? Because they were planning to attack (or have their surrogates attack) the oil terminals, silly.
Iran picks up a bunch of British sailors laying detection equipment in the Persian Gulf region, and the author makes the wild (and thoroughly unsubstantiated) accusation that Iran did this because they are planning to attack Iraqi oil terminals.
The notion that Iran simply didn't like the idea of British sailors carrying out a covert military mission in Iranian waters is apparently beyond the author's infantile mental capabilities.
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