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1 posted on 12/18/2009 8:43:07 AM PST by null and void
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Minister denies Iranian forces ventured onto Iraqi oilfield

Iraq's deputy interior minister has denied a report by an Iraqi security source who claimed Iranian troops had briefly occupied an oilfield located on the Iraqi side of the two countries’ lengthy desert border.

2 posted on 12/18/2009 8:44:53 AM PST by Schnucki
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“There has been no violence related to this incident and we trust this will be resolved through peaceful diplomacy between the governments of Iraq and Iran,” a US military spokesman told AFP at Contingency Operating Base Adder, just outside the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah.

Seriously???!!! What lock box has our nuts been placed in?? We are a freakin joke!!


3 posted on 12/18/2009 8:45:35 AM PST by my small voice (A biased media and an uneducated public is the biggest threat to our democracy)
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"There has been no violence related to this incident and we trust this will be resolved through peaceful diplomacy between the governments of Iraq and Iran," a US military spokesman told AFP

Meaning all your disputed areas are belong to Iran.

4 posted on 12/18/2009 8:45:56 AM PST by skeeter
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The "Force" is weak in this one.
Everybody else can smell the weakness in this one.





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5 posted on 12/18/2009 8:47:34 AM PST by Bon mots
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No prob....The Appeaser in Chief will kick thier asses.


6 posted on 12/18/2009 8:48:50 AM PST by clintonh8r (Oath Keeper and Manhattan Declaration signer)
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AP's take here
9 posted on 12/18/2009 8:56:48 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 331 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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Bambi’s just glad they did it on a Friday...Maybe some people won’t notice that he has no backbone until Monday.


10 posted on 12/18/2009 8:57:59 AM PST by libs_kma (If you RAM it down our throats in 2009, we're going to SHOVE it up your "donkey" in 2010!!!!!)
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gotta have kabuki theater to get the price of a barrel of crude up, ya know


11 posted on 12/18/2009 9:01:26 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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The O will retreat.


12 posted on 12/18/2009 9:07:44 AM PST by Lurking in Kansas (Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down their level, then beat you with experience.)
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14 posted on 12/18/2009 9:10:59 AM PST by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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BO doesn’t want a cassus belli.


15 posted on 12/18/2009 9:11:14 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Ayers unimportant? What about Robert KKK Byrd or FALN pardons? DNC -- the terrorism party.)
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Defense Secretary Gates welcomes Persian occupiers in the interests of diversity.


16 posted on 12/18/2009 9:11:14 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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Ping!


17 posted on 12/18/2009 9:11:46 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Ayers unimportant? What about Robert KKK Byrd or FALN pardons? DNC -- the terrorism party.)
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What will the false Messiah do?

18 posted on 12/18/2009 9:12:31 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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Can’t wait for Cheney’s comments.


19 posted on 12/18/2009 9:13:08 AM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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“we will be tested and you will not be happy with the response” {or words to that effect], said Slow Joe.


23 posted on 12/18/2009 9:25:28 AM PST by NonValueAdded ("'Diversity' is one of those words designed to absolve you of the need to think." Mark Steyn)
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They don’t need oil. They have nuclear!


28 posted on 12/18/2009 9:35:42 AM PST by b4its2late (Before you can control a horse, you have to break it. Sound familiar?)
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Iranian forces take over Iraq oil well

What better way to mock our last 8 years there and show what will happen the minute we leave.

30 posted on 12/18/2009 9:47:49 AM PST by DungeonMaster (camel, eye of a needle; rich man, heaven)
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FYI, here’s a second thread over here.


33 posted on 12/18/2009 10:01:26 AM PST by hennie pennie
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In case anyone's interested, there's another thread about these incursions, too:

Iraqi general: Iranian troops 'occupy' oil well on Iraqi border

Iraqi general: Iranian troops 'occupy' oil well on Iraqi border

35 posted on 12/18/2009 10:13:39 AM PST by hennie pennie
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