After The Middle East Disaster, Get Ready For Indochina War II.

Will there ever be an end to Bush's propensity for expansionism and the neo-cons grand doctrine of world domination by controlling the world's energy resources? The quagmire in the Middle East is quickly becoming out of fashion what with the doctrine floundering badly. Control of oil in the Middle East is now more or less a mirage.

So what do the neo-cons do? Look for greener pastures. And what better place than South East Asia?

While in Southeast Asia, this editor looked into rumors that the Bush/Cheney administration has initiated a major military move into Southeast Asia to secure for itself large oil deposits discovered in the waters of the Gulf of Thailand. The U.S. military push into the region is centered on the Cambodian coast, particularly around Sihanoukville.

With three countries -- Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam -- vying for the off-shore oil booty in seas where maritime borders are contested, the Bush/Cheney cartel hopes to achieve a dominant position to exploit the oil reserves for their oil industry friends and backers.

The recent visit of the U.S. Navy Seventh Fleet's USS Gary (FFG 51) to the Ream Naval Base near Sihanoukville on February 9, 2007 was billed as the first visit of a U.S. Navy ship in 30 years. What the Navy and media did not report was that the last U.S. Navy ships to "visit" Cambodia were those in 1975 that pulverized the Cambodian coast in response to the capture of the SS Mayaguez by Khmer Rouge forces.

With the U.S. support for the September 16, 2006 military coup in Thailand that overthrew that nation's democratically-elected government becoming clear (U.S. ambassador to Thailand Ralph Boyce now sports a yellow tie, a show of support for the royalist-backed coup -- yellow being the color of the monarchy), there is speculation that the U.S. will beef up a presence at Thai bases that were once important during the Vietnam War.

Here we go again! Another front. More troops. More deaths. More mayhem. More bad news... So what? "It's the OIL stupid"!!

Cheers! Have a nice day! It can't get any worse than this! Or can it?

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[edit on 3/14/2007 by Gools]

What else can we do. The dems have made it so we can't drill for oil that is under ground in the states or off our shores. China, India and other counries will be drilling for oil 70 miles from the US through Cuba. American oil companies can't drill for oil that is sitting under the US. There is plenty of oil in the states but we can't get any of it because wacko's block drilling. They then start bitching about being too dependent on foriegn oil. So here we are having to cross an ocean to get something we should be getting from here.

actually, the story I heard was that there's plenty of oil here, it's just that as long as it's cheaper to get it from other counties, we import it...
let the price go up high enough, and well, you'll see the rigs pumping again.
it's not the libs, it's the economics.

and I do think the current administration is a little nutty, but they're not insane....I don't think they're crazy enough to start something with china, not until we recover from Iraq at least. of course, there's wouldn't be any reason to honor those debts we owe china if we were at war with them, would there??
hmmm......

Its far more expsensive to rely on foreign oil the affects it has on the domestic economy are pretty horrendous but as long as no one else can drill thats all that matters, no one is about to just start drilling their final reserves of energy jhust quite yet.

I pitty the people in Indochina though, beautiful country shame to see hundreds of thousnds of people killed again for American oil interests.

Besides, if the Bush family can grab all the oil from the rest of the world, imagine how expensive the oil that the bushes themselves own would be.

I see the world relying on different forms of fuel or energy only if it makes them money. I think if there was some profit to be had if lets say you can use any old cheap liquid to power cars, the governments of the world would pounce on them and sell it to us with a nice markup.

just my opinion.

I also read an article about Israel's part in the game too.

Israel has been a major, albeit covert, player in Southeast Asia since Israeli multi-billionaire tycoon Shaul Eisenberg began supplying weapons to Cambodia's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s. Eisenberg, a close business partner of China's military, was also an early arms supplier to Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot. Eisenberg was active with Asia's Jewish community during World War II, not as an compatriot of the Allies but as a close intelligence and business partner of Japan's Imperial government, which was allied with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in the Axis Alliance. Escaping Nazi-controlled Europe, Eisenberg settled in the Far East, making his primary bases of operation Japanese-occupied Shanghai and Japan itself. In Shanghai, Eisenberg, along with Imperial Japanese military intelligence units, formed units of future Jewish terrorist groups -- the Irgun and the Shanghai Betar (Betar was founded in the 1930s by the Polish Zionist Yakob Jabotinsky, a supporter of Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, to battle the British for control of Palestine and the ideological godfather of later neoconservative oracle Leo Strauss)

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Storage facilities with so-called "enhanced security" were constructed in Phnom Penh (several facilities), Battambang, Pailin, Banteay Meanchey, Siem Reap, Banteay Srei, Preah Vihear, and Kampong Thom. The suspicions about Israeli involvement in smuggling stored Khmer Rouge and other weapons were heightened in 1999 after a mysterious fire destroyed the Cambodian military weapons storage facility at the Ream Naval Base near Sihanoukville. According to a New Zealand intelligence officer in Cambodia, the depot was destroyed by an Israeli squad after it was revealed they were smuggling weapons from the facility to guerrilla groups throughout Southeast Asia, including the small "Free Vietnam Movement" battling Vietnam's central government and Hmong guerrillas battling Laotian government forces. The Vietnamese became even more suspicious about the role of the depot after weapons from the Ream warehouse were seized by Cambodian and Vietnamese police at the Bavet border checkpoint. The weapons were destined for guerrillas of the Free Vietnam Movement