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Hitler - I love the Hitler comments. Folks, if you want to talk about Hitler, talk about Sudan then! The genocide is immense there. And of course, it's all due to oil contracts with China and the Sudanese govt.
Why doesnt the US and UK govt's stop the genocide there? Where's all the talk about ruthless dictators with respect to Sudan? Hmm. Kind of quiet now, huh?
The simple truth is China is making the oil deals in Sudan and the US and UK are sitting on the sidelines while innocent people are murdered everyday.
There's no Hitler in Iran. You idiots have no idea of what you're even talking about. End of case.
Oooh? Them guys on both sides must be wrong. Let's don't talk, let's bomb.
Last I heard there were 97 million slaves in the world, more than at any time in history. And there are nations that assent. Svoboda.
'Do you idiots even realize who controls the Straights of Hormuz where 40 percent of the world's oil travels through?'
The US Navy, so go screw yourself comical Ali.
Most of you people who advocate attacking Iran have never probably actually been in military combat. Ask the neo-Crusaders (U.S. and U.K.) soldiers who are getting killed and maimed everyday in Iraq and Afghanistan if they are anxious to confront another foe? Maybe those warmongers George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Tony Blair and John Howard should go out and lead the troops. The Western nations and their Zionist ally have a propensity for war. But a war with Iran would be unwise. The so-called superpower USA is losing in Iraq and Afghanistan, how can they expect to defeat the Iranians who have far better arms, equipment and military training than the adversaries that the US is currently facing? Israel with their overwhelming weaponry (supplied by the U.S.) could not even defeat 1500 lightly-armed (compared to the IDF) Hezbullah fighters in Lebanon. Too many neo-Crusader lives are being wasted or ruined in Afghanistan and Iraq, why start another imperialist war in Iran? The U.S. is losing two wars right now, why start a third? Also, if one uses the Japanese as a model, Iran will financially rule the world by the year 2040 if it gets nuked. Japan, an island nation with no natural resources, has become the world's #2 economy 60 years after the devilish U.S. dropped two Atom bombs on it. Iran is a large country with vast natural resources, not to mention oil and natural gas. Iran would recover and prosper even quicker than Japan did. If history repeats itself maybe the Western nations should start teaching Farsi in their schools the day they attack Iran.
Bomb Em - LOL. Good comments. Keep em up. My oil and gold investments are doing great - up 30% per year for the past 4 years. Go send in the US Navy for Hormuz? You'll be paying big cash at the pumps, and I'll be taking it all! Ha ha ha ha. In the end, money talks, and BS walks. You may want to start walking...
Cha-ching...cha-ching...send those oil prices higher!
LOL.
24 hours to give up the brits?! Talk, and more talk?! The hell with the 24 hours, and the hell with more talk! Go in there and kick ass! No more pussyfooting around! The British are our friends and allies. A threat to the Brits, is a threat to the US. GO BRITAIN, GO USA!
Hey 'Bomb Them', I'll bet you drive an SUV too. Ha ha ha. Keep the price of gasoline up so I can make more money! You do it to yourself and you have no one else to blame. Ha ha ha ha.
Let's see, what oil company stock to buy next? Hmm....mabye a little Diamond Offshore, Transocean, Baker Hughes, Tesoro, Valero? Hmm.
Keep it comming, keep it comming.
LOL!
It's a sad state of affairs to say the least. I cannot claim to know if they (The British) were or were not in Iraqi or Iranian waters, but it seems to me that this situation could lead to a very volitile series of events, possibly culminating in a conventional war. If that were to occur then there is no doubt in my mind that the USA would join with the British and launch an attack from all sides against Iran, the immediate results of which would be very one-sided. However the long-term effects would be detrimental to the invaders, econimcally, politically, and militarily. It is a no-win situation for all sides (Iran, Britain, and the USA).
And on another note, for those of you who casually say 'Lets simply wipe them off of the face of the world.' Just remember, there was a very similar sentiment that existed back in the 1930's and 1940's among many individuals. Genocide is not the answer. (Unless of course you can completely cover up your tracks so no one knows that is was you or that it ever happened. In todays information age that would be next to impossible.)
'Go send in the US Navy for Hormuz?'
We have 2 carrier task forces in the Arabian Gulf now, each with more firepower then all the munitions expended in WW2.
'You'll be paying big cash at the pumps, and I'll be taking it all! Ha ha ha ha. '
Gee, we might have to open the strategic oil reserve... Ha HA HA...
' In the end, money talks, and BS walks'
Indeed, if blockaded Iran's government will fail. Oil is the onnly thing they export, besides terrorism.
I KNOW the US has task forces in the Persian Gulf. I love it too. It just keeps the price of oil up. While the rest of the world is developing alternative solutions, the US govt continues to banter and banter and beat it's chest. It tries to artificially prop up the dollar. What a joke. Just look at the dollar over the past three years folks. It's a one way ticket down.
As the dollar weakens, all the goods in Walmart go UP in price! Ha ha ha. Who's to blame for that? Walmart? Nope, it's failed US foreign policy and fake pumping of the dollar.
The Chinese are already preparing to unleash $200 billion in US treasuries to buy US Assets. Bonds have no value, but, assets do.
As I said, money talks, BS walks. There's a lot of ignorance in so many comments.
In the end, the US and UK are trying to keep up the dollar hegemenony with all their war bantering. Ha ha ha. That wont last. Trust me.
For me and my money, it's energy and gold stocks, baby. Time to start counting all the profits comming!
Go US Navy, go! Go US Marines! Go make the price of oil go up!!! And, get a free college education (if you live) in the process! The consideration of maybe becoming a net exporter of goods just never seems to be an accepted policy of the US. Trade deficits will soon approach $1Trillion per year! Ha ha ha ha ha.
You see, the real issue here is dollar hegemony and trying to keep the oil addiction going in the US. It wont last. My money's on energy and gold.
LOL.
'Hey 'Bomb Them', I'll bet you drive an SUV too. Ha ha ha'
Another bet you would lose, Ali.
'Keep the price of gasoline up so I can make more money! You do it to yourself and you have no one else to blame. Ha ha ha ha.'
Price spikes drive down oil stock.. Idiot.
'Let's see, what oil company stock to buy next?'
I didn't know you could buy stock with food stamps. I have Exxon/Mobil, however I HIGHLY recommend buying defense stock. They will be going through Tomahawk missiles and JDAM kits for their bombs. Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon...
So laugh away Ali.
To Persian Victory?!? Trust me, you haven't even come close to seeing the power of the United States. You use the Japenese as a note of example. Well, they too found out the hard way what it's like to mess with a sleeping giant! By the way, just how the hell do you figure Iran will be richer in a nuke scenario? Do you really believe that Iran will even be able to get oil out of the ground ? What a moron! Better study up on how hot the region will be for hundreds, if not thousands of years. I'm sure you'll be able to find all kinds of people who will just love to work in a radio active waste land.
Exxon/Mobil? Ha ha ha. Pleeeease. You wont make much money with them. Their reserves are about peaking as we speak. Mark my words, in the short years to come, Exxon/Mobil will go down in price even as oil rises! It's the drillers you idiot that will make all the money. (Compare XOM to the oil services etf OIH)! Exxon/Mobil has to pay more and more to the drillers as their supplies begin to peak and eventually decline!
As I said, money talks....BS walks. And, I'm still talking. You've got nothing.
LOL.
In the end, it's a lot of talk going on with Iran and the US. Both sides are trying to pump up oil prices for their own purposes. And, I love it. It makes me richer!
I highly recommend protecting yourselves with investments in energy. What else can you do, put a bumper sticker on your car?! Ha. Put you money on the line, folks.
LOL.
And...speaking of price spikes. Ha, what little you know. It's the supply demand that drives prices in the long run. AND, supply is peaking and demand is rising!
LOL.
Go marines! Go Navy!
'The Chinese are already preparing to unleash $200 billion in US treasuries to buy US Assets. Bonds have no value, but, assets do.'
Bonds have no value? 'As I said, money talks, BS walks. There's a lot of ignorance in so many comments.'
US GDP is 13 trillion, China's is 2.2. Next.... (You ignoramus)
'Go US Navy, go! Go US Marines! Go make the price of oil go up!!! '
Oil stocks grow on stability. Price shocks drive down oil stock... You see, if you are in the market you are a rube who is going to be picked clean because you are a blow hard who thinks he knows something he doesn't. Couldn't happen to a nicer fellow.
'And, get a free college education (if you live) in the process! '
Hey, they paid for my grad school.
'You see, the real issue here is dollar hegemony and trying to keep the oil addiction going in the US.'
AAAh the 'dollar hegemony' argument. Sweet, sweet, satisfying proof that you do not know what you are talking about.
It's amazing how a little terrorist that publicly states he ( Mahmoud Ah'mad'inejad ) and the mullahs that helped make him the President is here on earth to prepare for the second coming of the Mahdi which they believe is the end of the world. Leaders of other countries know all that he is saying and the majority of the population does not know truly what he states. Ahmadinejad publicly announces that Israel and supporters such as America AND EUROPE should not be on earth. All of Ahmadinejads adult life he has proclaimed death to Americans, death to Israel, death to any who is not Islamic. This is a man that provokes conflicts. Iran does not deny supporting terrorist actions. And people have the thoughts to blame other countries for wars. Has anyone forgotten that Ahmadinejad asked America to stop Saddam due to Saddams threats to Iran years ago. It was all another lie by Ahmadinejad. A country that has a leader that wants the world to end and claims other countries should not be on earth wants nuclear power ! For energy ? I don't hear Bush , or Blair stating they want the world to end ! As Ahmadinejad states he does ! The nations that are armed with nuks are to deter countries lead by people like Ahmadinejad. But it's not working Ahmadinejad wants world war.
Pleeeeeeeease!
'US GDP is 13 trillion, China's is 2.2. Next.... (You ignoramus)'
Why dont YOU tell me which country's currency is gaining and which is falling? Why dont you tell me what the GDP growth rates are of both countries if you even know! (I know).
'Oil stocks grow on stability. Price shocks drive down oil stock'
What are you even talking about? Oil stocks grow on stability? You make no sense. Oil stocks grow based on demand for oil. And, demand is rising. And no, demand is not rising mostly in the US. It's rising mostly in China and India.
'dollar hegemony' - no, it's YOU that dont know what your talking about.
What's your graduate degree in, psychology?
You can banter all you want. It's my portfolio that keeps rising.
There's little I can do to stop the wars, but, there's plenty I can do to profit from the wars. That's capitalism.
LOL.
....and oh, yeah, what country is a net borrower, and what country is a net lender? Hmmm. (Answere: US is the net borrower, China is the net lender)
Gross GDP is meaningless, especially when borrowing increases GDP.
LOL.
Keep up the ignorance.
Go Navy, Go Marines, Go Bush drive my energy and gold stock prices up! I plan to buy up some ocean front property and hire some Americans to do my cleaning! Ha ha ha ha. (I dont mean to offend the Mexican hard workers).
The U.S. got their butts kicked in Vietnam. Got chased out of Somalia and Lebanon. Now the U.S. is losing in Afghanistan and Iraq. What U.S. firepower? No one is afraid of the U.S. military. The U.S. has all the weaponry but as Osama Bin Laden was reported (in BBC) to have said about the U.S. forces in The Battle of Tora Bora: the U.S. soldiers lack courage and conviction. Why do you warmongers relish combat but you are not participating in it? Ask some of those poor legless fools at Walter Reed Army Hospital if they support the Bush/Cheny neo-Crusader Wars? Ask the parents of the 3,300 dead U.S. soldiers, sailors, and marines if they are happy to have sacrificed their children on the alter of imperialism? Those whose support continued U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq should enlist and go fight themselves rather than talk it killing. The world needs peace, but you people are so blinded by hate, xenophobia, bigotry and racism that for devils like you violence is the only answer.
To 'U.S. GETTING BUTTS KICKED!!!', you've got some good points. In the end, the US is not making much headway in Iraq or Afghanistan. But, US debts keep rising as it tries to pay for the wars. And, all the fighting is on the backs of the poor who are tricked into enlisting.
While the soldiers are fighting the Bush war, the US citizens are shopping and claiming they 'support the troops' with bumper stickers. If they truly supported the troops, the debacle in Walter Reed would never have taken place.
In the end, the real cure is to cut back on wars and increase industrial trading production. No country goes to war with a stong trading partner.
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