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2006-03-15 Iraq
SAS setting IEDs in Iraq?
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Posted by Brett 2006-03-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 If the US/West is so focused on "seizing" oil, then why is it the West put out some 1,300 oil well fires after Gulf War I - fires that no one else could have touched - then redrilled the wells - and then WENT HOME AND RESUMED BUYING THAT OIL AT TOP DOLLAR??????????

The "it's all about oil" crowd never seem to find any irony in that situation.
Posted by Lone Ranger 2006-03-15 00:27||   2006-03-15 00:27|| Front Page Top

#2 To find who is responsible for the mayhem of secretarian violence, you have to look at the history and who actually will benefit from such violence.

Der Juden?
Posted by gromgoru 2006-03-15 02:15||   2006-03-15 02:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Erm I think the SAS men did have 'stuff' on them... coulda been the fireworks display team for the garrison Lawrence of Arabia theme party? errrr.. I guess having Iran on the doorstep may lead to us using our own forms of subterfuge. The presence of explosives could also have been bullshit manufactured by the Iraqi Police...
Posted by Howard UK 2006-03-15 06:18||   2006-03-15 06:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Frankly, I'd be shocked if you didn't find explosives on an SAS team.

But Gary "Monkey Business" Hart is a freaking loon.
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2006-03-15 07:20|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-03-15 07:20|| Front Page Top

#5 waiting for Al gaurdian to publish this claptrap - i give it a week at most.
Posted by ShepUK 2006-03-15 07:44||   2006-03-15 07:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Andy McNab at it again eh? Who Dares..., well you know.
Posted by Visitor 2006-03-15 08:31||   2006-03-15 08:31|| Front Page Top

#7 coulda been the fireworks display team for the garrison Lawrence of Arabia theme party?

LOL, Howard.

The presence of explosives could also have been bullshit manufactured by the Iraqi Police...

Yes, especially after the Brits finally began pressuring some of the local militia not to act on Iran's behalf.
Posted by lotp 2006-03-15 08:34||   2006-03-15 08:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Perhaps what is required is a demonstration of what we would do if we were really out for the oil? Then they might be able to tell the difference.
Posted by Perfesser 2006-03-15 09:48||   2006-03-15 09:48|| Front Page Top

#9 Nope, Perfesser. You've gotta have "students" who actually think logically to serve that up as proof. They'd only scream (if we actually were to do that) that it PROVES their point of it all being about the oil.
Posted by BA 2006-03-15 11:29||   2006-03-15 11:29|| Front Page Top

#10 The quoted text was NOT written by Gary Hart, but it's interesting that he attracts such fellow-travellers.
Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2006-03-15 11:33|| http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/]">[http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/]  2006-03-15 11:33|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm sorry, wasn't it the British that saved your worthless asses from the Turks? Maybe they should have let you chafe under they yoke of the Ottoman empire for another hundred years.
Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-03-15 13:02||   2006-03-15 13:02|| Front Page Top

#12 Who benefits from that violence? Well Zarcowe's memo touched on that I think. Something about a tussle within Al Queda about stirring up this kind of crap.

Syria also benefits as confusion in Iraq delays the eventual time when Uncle Sam deals with them.

Iran also benefits as they want their boy Sadr to take over, unfortunately for them the people didn't rally around his attacks against Sunnis and calm returned.

The US had nothing to gain and potentially an enormous amount to lose if things got out of control. This is nonsense from top to bottom.
Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz  2006-03-15 13:34||   2006-03-15 13:34|| Front Page Top

#13 I benefit from the sun coming up in the morning. Therefore, I make the sun come up in the morning.

You guys should be a lot more respectful to someone as powerful as me.
Posted by Dreadnought 2006-03-15 15:36||   2006-03-15 15:36|| Front Page Top

#14 "All hail Emperor Dreadnought! Don't shoot."
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2006-03-15 15:38||   2006-03-15 15:38|| Front Page Top

#15 That's more like that. Fetch me a bourbon, my good and trusty liege man.
Posted by Dreadnought 2006-03-15 16:18||   2006-03-15 16:18|| Front Page Top

#16 That's more like IT.

PIMF
Posted by Dreadnought 2006-03-15 16:22||   2006-03-15 16:22|| Front Page Top

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