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4. The Saudi's had a very lucrative reason to bomb their

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Mon Sep 16, 2019, 03:28 PM

Sep 2019

own oil fields. Look at the huge jump in oil prices this has caused, a they certainly have many other productive oil fields that will make them a huge profit.

Plus they get the incredibly gullible and ridiculously stupid Trump slobbering about blowing up iran. This would weaken their arch for and drive up the price of crude higher still.

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Saudi Arabia Says Iranian Weapons Were Used in Strikes on Oil Facilities - & the Saudis NEVER Lie. [View all] spanone Sep 2019 OP

Neither do Trump or Pompeo lame54 Sep 2019 #1

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did I need the sarcasm thing? spanone Sep 2019 #5

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The Saudi's had a very lucrative reason to bomb their procon Sep 2019 #4