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2005-09-07 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Captain America 2005-09-07 09:05|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'd say this should be payback for us helping them out with the 2003 earthquake, but then again I'm looking for gratitude where there isn't any.

Posted by Raj 2005-09-07 09:30|| 2005-09-07 09:30|| Front Page Top

#2 They can pound that 20 million barrels up their ass.
This isn't an actual offer, just a gesture for the rest of the worlds' consumption.

Posted by JerseyMike 2005-09-07 09:40|| 2005-09-07 09:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Sorry Iran, our rigs just have minor damage, our refineries are back up and running and oil prices will drop $20 a barrel soon. You can take that oil and shove it. Later, we still may kick your ass and take your gas.
Kisses!

Posted by mmurray821 2005-09-07 09:46|| 2005-09-07 09:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Take it, then don't do what we said. A little like the nuclear we do we don't they are playing.

Posted by plainslow 2005-09-07 10:02|| 2005-09-07 10:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Without the conditions, $1.2B is a pretty big contribution. With the conditions, $1.2B is a pretty low price for dropping sanctions. Maybe if they made it 200m barrels, or $12B.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-09-07 10:30|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-09-07 10:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Take the oil and keep the sanctions. It's the way of the Souk.

Posted by Claish Glineth6940 2005-09-07 10:34|| 2005-09-07 10:34|| Front Page Top

#7 "Thanks for the oil. We dropped the sanctions on Iraq. What? Iran? Like hell we'll drop the sanctions on Iran."

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-09-07 10:55|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-09-07 10:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Iran's offers reciprocates the goodwill that the United States displayed after an earthquake flattened the southeastern Iranian city of Bam in 2003

Did we place condition on what we sent in aid back then? Then its is not the same.

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-09-07 11:04|| 2005-09-07 11:04|| Front Page Top

#9 A poor trade is not "goodwill". We need to drop something, but it's not sanctions.

Posted by Darrell 2005-09-07 11:31|| 2005-09-07 11:31|| Front Page Top

#10 Our rigs just have minor damage, our refineries are back up and running and oil prices will drop $20 a barrel soon.

If you're a betting person that's not the way to bet right now. Essentially the world has almost no spare crude production capacity right now and oil companies, seemingly having learned their lessons from past price spikes, are in no hurry to bring lots of new capacity online. The latest DOE Short Term Energy Outlook (hot off the presses less than an hour ago) is still calling for 2006 crude prices to average almost $5/bbl more than '05 prices. Barring a worldwide economic meltdown or serious changes in the behaior of energy users oil prices aren't going to dip for any significan length of time in the next year or two.

Posted by AzCat 2005-09-07 12:02|| 2005-09-07 12:02|| Front Page Top

#11 Our rigs just have minor damage, our refineries are back up and running and oil prices will drop $20 a barrel soon.

Dude - you are WAAAAAY off there. We'll never see those prices again so get used to it.

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2005-09-07 13:56|| 2005-09-07 13:56|| Front Page Top

#12 He said prices will drop [by] $20/barrel, not that they will drop to $20/barrel.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-09-07 15:20|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-09-07 15:20|| Front Page Top

#13 Iran will send the United States 20 million barrels of crude oil to help it overcome the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, if Washington waives trade sanctions, a senior Iranian oil official said.

A Quid Pro Quo is not a contribution, Mo-Fo. Charity with strings attached is not charity. It may work on the EU-3 but it don't work for me.

By the way, how did the rebuilding of Bam work out? And did you revise the building codes and fix up the ~~Mad Mullah Kickback Program~~ problems with code enforcement that caused your little ~~inconvenience~~ disaster?

Posted by Al-Aska Paul 2005-09-07 16:16|| 2005-09-07 16:16|| Front Page Top

#14 Why, do it.
Send the oil.
Trade sanctions waived
For a day

Posted by True German Ally 2005-09-07 16:35|| 2005-09-07 16:35|| Front Page Top

#15 Absolutely, TGA. The first Friday of Ramadan, as a matter of fact...

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-09-07 16:39|| 2005-09-07 16:39|| Front Page Top

#16 The days of Chea[p Oil is over, gone, adjust to it, it is a good thing as well.

20 million barrels is a drop in the bucket BTW. This is for International consumption.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-09-07 17:22|| 2005-09-07 17:22|| Front Page Top

#17 No, I think this hallow gesture is more for internal consumption. It placates the pro-western Iranians who are nationalistic enough to be pro-nuclear power. This represents many.

Posted by Captain America 2005-09-07 18:14|| 2005-09-07 18:14|| Front Page Top

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