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originally posted by: tadaman
So far, no one is taking me very serious. God Himself has warned you.
By God you mean you dont you? You do say you are God all the time right?
originally posted by: dragonridr
a reply to: Gianfar
Well thats what they said about the Iraq war as well. But id say most likely result is Saudis would increase there production since they would love Iran to be removed from the picture. Saudis would do whatever is necessary to see Iran removed. They stabilized the price as well during Iraq war in fact gave free gas to US troops i dont think it be any different for Iran this would put there religion in total control of the middle east. And thats what all the fighting is over Sunni and Shia. Funniest part is its a minor difference really just not to Muslims.
originally posted by: Xcathdra
a reply to: Gianfar
The US, again, has not benefited from Iraqi oil fields. Those contracts went to China.
A former Kurdish official claims that a group of retired American generals negotiated Iraqi Kurdistan’s oil contracts with the knowledge of Kurdistan’s US representative. Heyrsh Abdulrahman - who has made the statement - served as deputy of the Kurdistan Regional Government’s US representative between 2004 and 2009. In an interview with the local newspaper Hawlati, Abdulrahman says retired American generals and politicians have shares Kurdistan’s oil deals.
In one case, American Robert Stein, the Coalition Provisional Authority’s controller in the central Iraq city of Hilla, was jailed in 2007 for nine years after admitting his role in a multi-million-pound corruption scandal.
Between 2003 and 2004, when he was in charge of distributing reconstruction money, Stein used a rigged bidding process to hand contracts worth £5.7million to his co-conspirator – construction contractor Philip Bloom – who was also jailed.
That is just one example. In 2004, the Americans began to build a sewer and water system in Fallujah, west of Baghdad. Originally planned to cost £23million and take 18 months to complete, the project has already cost £129million and is still unfinished.
originally posted by: Wrabbit2000
Individual men in the machine of war may have cut deals for themselves out of the overall mess, but overall? The U.S. didn't get much benefit out of the war with regard to oil.
Iraq Crude Oil Imports
Iraq just isn't one of our big customers. Never has been. Never will be. They are important for entirely different reasons, but oil? Not so much in what the US has imported or who it comes from. Not according to the actual oil moving per year.
originally posted by: Wrabbit2000
a reply to: dragonridr
Oh, dictators are easy to control. The US has loved dictators from Noriega to Saddam. Oh.. Wait.. We removed them. No.. We supported them...THEN we removed them.
Confusing isn't it? Or...What a tangled web we weave. . . as very accurate thoughts here.
I'd just as soon we stop trying to buy good OR bad dictators and just let the world have at each other without us for awhile. We need to fix our own house before working on anyone else's for awhile anyway.
originally posted by: cavtrooper7
a reply to: OneManArmy
You completely left out the Defamation of the prominent nationstate,and to weaken it's army from within so that they are beaten on the battle field militarily.
Sloppy man...
originally posted by: dragonridr
originally posted by: Wrabbit2000
Individual men in the machine of war may have cut deals for themselves out of the overall mess, but overall? The U.S. didn't get much benefit out of the war with regard to oil.
Iraq Crude Oil Imports
Iraq just isn't one of our big customers. Never has been. Never will be. They are important for entirely different reasons, but oil? Not so much in what the US has imported or who it comes from. Not according to the actual oil moving per year.
Your right wasnt about oil there trying to remove dictators from the middle east. Dictators are hard to control or predict.
originally posted by: Wrabbit2000
I'd just as soon we stop trying to buy good OR bad dictators and just let the world have at each other without us for awhile. We need to fix our own house before working on anyone else's for awhile anyway.
originally posted by: FlyersFan
Imagine ... No Ayatollahs ... no John McCains ... no John Kerry's .... No Putins ... No Kim Jong-un ... etc etc .... We will ALL be doing a happy dance while eating chocolate covered bacon.
originally posted by: Xcathdra
a reply to: Gianfar
The US, again, has not benefited from Iraqi oil fields. Those contracts went to China.
originally posted by: gladtobehere
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, all but said...
All but said. So he didnt really say?
“Today’s world is full of thieves and plunderers of human honor, dignity and morality who are equipped with knowledge, wealth and power, and under the pretence of humanity easily commit crimes and betray human ideals and start wars in different parts of the world.”
Cant argue with they guy here, right?
The US has a long standing policy of endless warfare and pre-emptive wars based on lies, Iraq and Vietnam (Gulf of Tonkin lie) being the obvious ones.
This battle will only end when the society can get rid of the oppressors’ front with America at the head of it...
Again, the West does seem to have a policy of world conquest and the US is the leader of this NATO, UK, EU, globalist alliance.
And that oppression isnt just overseas. Domestically, they are attacking the 2nd Amendment, rolling out a militarized violent police state with warrant-less mass surveillance.
Hate to say it, but the guy does make some fair points.
originally posted by: dlbott
originally posted by: gladtobehere
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, all but said...
All but said. So he didnt really say?
“Today’s world is full of thieves and plunderers of human honor, dignity and morality who are equipped with knowledge, wealth and power, and under the pretence of humanity easily commit crimes and betray human ideals and start wars in different parts of the world.”
Cant argue with they guy here, right?
The US has a long standing policy of endless warfare and pre-emptive wars based on lies, Iraq and Vietnam (Gulf of Tonkin lie) being the obvious ones.
This battle will only end when the society can get rid of the oppressors’ front with America at the head of it...
Again, the West does seem to have a policy of world conquest and the US is the leader of this NATO, UK, EU, globalist alliance.
And that oppression isnt just overseas. Domestically, they are attacking the 2nd Amendment, rolling out a militarized violent police state with warrant-less mass surveillance.
Hate to say it, but the guy does make some fair points.
It cracks me up how people spout rubbish and know nothing about what they are talking about. This isn't two hundred years ago and we are not England or France or Spain. We don't go to war to conquer people and steal their land. Oh Yea, that was the Persia empire. Same one got embarrassed by 300 Greeks lol.
No these idiots have it backwards. We freed the iraqi people from a tyrant who killed and tortured his own people. We might have gotten in under false pretense but the fact remained it needed to be done. When over we left the country in freedom, able to govern themselves for the first time in history.
Fact is this is one of only couple reasons we go to war, you attack or threaten us or some whacko kills and oppresses his people and his neighbors.
Lately people are wising up and doing this for themselves ala Arab spring. This is what the Iranian people need to do. Honestly, I am surprised we or Israel has not wiped them off the map. You can't threaten other countries with wanting to kill them all and make so they never existed and expect there won't be consequences.
This guy is nuts, he has a leader trying to help the Iranian people by calming the rhetoric and then the supreme arse hole says he should be arrested and they should kill all of us lol.
Iran is majority young educated people now, surely your not buying that bowl of chit he is shoveling on you. Surely you can rise up and get rid of this wanker. Otherwise, you are gonna keep poking us with a stick and you are gonna get bit. You can't keep threatening to kill us without us doing something about it. And you know what, you are gonna get what you deserve, death.
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