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2014-07-30 Iraq

A Tanker Carrying Kurdish Crude Is Doing Donuts In The Gulf Of Mexico

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-07-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 60 miles out in International Waters at the moment. The ship will have to refuel sooner or later, somewhere.

Posted by Thineng Angailet7166 2014-07-30 02:29|| 2014-07-30 02:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Kurds should threaten to drop the oil in the ocean if payment is not made immediately. Obama would write the check out himself.

Posted by Airandee 2014-07-30 05:59|| 2014-07-30 05:59|| Front Page Top

#3 I forsee offloading at Veracruz. Or even take it to Trinidad.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-07-30 07:23|| 2014-07-30 07:23|| Front Page Top

#4 A ten mile long PLUTO - let the tanker go, follow the crude.

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2014-07-30 08:28|| 2014-07-30 08:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Just pick up some kids in Honduras or Guatemala for delivery in the states, they'll get a border patrol escort.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-07-30 08:52|| 2014-07-30 08:52|| Front Page Top

#6 The problem is that President Obama has made it known he is strongly against anyone buying Kurdish crude, as facilitating the breakup of Iraq.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-07-30 09:48|| 2014-07-30 09:48|| Front Page Top

#7 If there were a spill it would just be another excuse to shut down more drilling in the gulf. No, it's not logical, but it wasn't logical last time.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-07-30 10:22|| 2014-07-30 10:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Hell, Maliki has worked to make Iraq a Russian/Iranian client again, but we're going to say the Kurds have to stick with him?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-07-30 10:24|| 2014-07-30 10:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Of course Obama is going to fuck over the Kurds - it hurts the US, just like damned nearly every foreign policy blunder he has instituted. Clinton really cemented the relationship with the Lurds by strictly enforcing the no-fly and staying the hell out of the way of certain operation and support during his 2 terms. Bush continued this support, and it paid dividends during OIF - the Kurdish reasons were the best developed economically and culturally during OIF and the withdrawal, and now, with ISIS running rampant, they have been a firewall against the Takfiri Salafists.

So of course Obama is going to screw them over. If I were advising the Kurds, I'd tell the Kurds to offload in Panama so the Chinese can take it, or even offload in Cuba. Yes its counter to US Policy, but at this point in time, someone needs to figuratively put a thumb in Obama's eye for this stuff - and do so before he does even more harmful things. Imposing consequences is never pretty.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-07-30 14:25|| 2014-07-30 14:25|| Front Page Top

#10 ye gods, how I hate autocorrect. "Kurdish reasons" => Kurdish regions. Lurds => Kurds (spellcheck ignored because it was capitalized),

Posted by OldSpook 2014-07-30 14:29|| 2014-07-30 14:29|| Front Page Top

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