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Originally posted by Dr UAE
Originally posted by lpowell0627
Ok...if Iraq was all about oil, and according to you so is Libya, care to share where exactly all the oil from Iraq is now?
surely this will electrify anyones brain cells to start and think what is it all about.
As a result, corruption has become embedded in Iraq's political system to a worse extent than during Saddam Hussein's regime, according to Jaffe. "Without oil meters and control systems, there is built up a whole black market. There are different groups that can control that flow," she says. "They can pay off politicians. They can pay off government officials and government inspectors. There are people inside the system now who are making personal, individual money, or their insurgency group or their political party is making money from corruption, from smuggling, from black market activities. So they are against instituting the kinds of procedures it would take to close all this down."
Originally posted by princeofpeace
Pakistan doesnt have ICBMs. So again, how do they attack the US?
I'm not much for famous people quotes, but here's one from Forest Gump, "stupid is as stupid does"
Originally posted by watchitburn
The US always has Carriers in the Gulf. There is an entire fleet based in Bahrain.
It would be stupid for the US to get in another war, with anyone.
Originally posted by Illusionsaregrander
reply to post by bigfatfurrytexan
You had me till the word "homeland."
Originally posted by Fractured.Facade
Pakistan is now the greatest threat to the USA, don't waste any more time on diplomacy, its time to do something dramatic.
Originally posted by lpowell0627
Ok...if Iraq was all about oil, and according to you so is Libya, care to share where exactly all the oil from Iraq is now?
Originally posted by CanadianDream420
Originally posted by lpowell0627
Ok...if Iraq was all about oil, and according to you so is Libya, care to share where exactly all the oil from Iraq is now?
Secured in U.S dollars.. That's where it's at Mr. Powell.
Anyone read the part where China is giving India 50 fighter jets?... Wonder if they come with a Chinese pilot.
Originally posted by firepilot
Originally posted by Fractured.Facade
Pakistan is now the greatest threat to the USA, don't waste any more time on diplomacy, its time to do something dramatic.
Actually our finanicial issues such as the federal debt and the money we continually send out via imports (electronics, oil) are far more of a threat than terrorism. Not minimizing terrorism, but foreign terrorists can not destroy the US economy, but the debt can.
Originally posted by princeofpeace
Pakistan doesnt have ICBMs. So again, how do they attack the US?
Originally posted by MortlitantiFMMJ
Originally posted by princeofpeace
Pakistan doesnt have ICBMs. So again, how do they attack the US?
They have missiles capable of reaching the Arab peninsula, how many US bases are in the mid-east?
Its also not beyond the bounds of possibility for the Chinese to supply them with further reaching technology.
Originally posted by MortlitantiFMMJ
Originally posted by princeofpeace
Pakistan doesnt have ICBMs. So again, how do they attack the US?
They have missiles capable of reaching the Arab peninsula, how many US bases are in the mid-east?