Posted on 11/23/2015 12:14:39 PM PST by amorphous
Last week, in the wake of Russian and US airstrikes on ISIS oil convoys, we asked three important questions:
1.Who are the commodity trading firms that have been so generously buying millions of smuggled oil barrels procured by the Islamic State at massive discounts to market, and then reselling them to other interested parties? In other words, who are the middlemen?
2.Can it possibly be true, as officials now claim, that the Obama administration refrained from bombing Islamic State oil trucks because Washington thought the group was "only" making $100 million per year instead of $400 million?
3.Is it likely, considering how cavalier the US is about collateral damage from drone strikes, that The Pentagon refused to take out Islamic State's revenue stream because the military was afraid of killing a few âinnocentâ truck drivers who by definition knew they were transporting illegal crude for a terrorist organization?
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I guess there’s nothing treasonous that he might do that would get him impeached.
I think he just might be a Muslim too!
An OSHA compliant air strike.
I wouldn’t expect anything less from our sympathizer in chief
His ring precludes otherwise.
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