If they can disrupt the port to the south - they can effectively take

[Joe for Clark]

millions of barrels of crude off the market right now - they know that.

Some people think the US is a vitrual empire - that we exercise control because we control the currency of choice - it makes sense, too.

But we are not an island unto ourselves.

There will be a move toward that port - The dieing will occur to the north - the casualty of war, ecconomically - is going to happen at that port.

Joe

[WCGreen]

1. That is what the first Gulf War was all about....

That and our Allies the Omar from Kuwait okayed leteral drilling into Saddam's territory...

But I quibble....

[Joe for Clark]

2. I make this further calculation - you Mr Bush move three carrier

task forces in to protect those shipping terminals -and you get on the phone and make sure the british get out of those bunkers and cover that city - and you do it now.

Not a lot of time here - those assholes are two steps ahead of you. You know it.

Get it right - I am not looking at the moral anymore - just the right thing to protect us. You are history soon in any event - we will live on. Do it.

Joe

[tnlurker]

3. Joe

Can you start an the beginning and tell what this is about?

[Joe for Clark]

6. Events are moving really fast - I will cut to the chase.

I admit I am just a graduate history student - but I know the tactics - I have seen them before. We are getting played in a war we should never have entered.

Cover those loading facilities like white on rice Bush - that is where the weakness is.

Joe

[DemReadingDU]

8. So you think there will be an escalationsouth near Basra?

or north near Kirkuk where there was the blast in the oil pipeline.

I'm confused, where are these loading facilities?

[Joe for Clark]

9. I am saying they can attack at both ends - to the same effect.

The kids will die to the north I think -

but if they can stop exports - north and south - well, then we are screwed.

These people can clearly chew gum and walk at the same time.

Joe

[BrotherBuzz]

4. The Strait of Hormuz is the real road bump to the southern ports...

and everyone knows it.

[malta blue]

5. Hail the allmighty petrodollar....

You are probably right Joe. How are you and your family these days?
~peace~

[Joe for Clark]

7. I don't want to be right - I want to be wrong.

You know what this could mean to us???

They never needed to attack us at home - they just wanted to fuck with us. They can very well attack us from there. These guys are pretty smart.

Boy do they get their chance - and we allowed it. We gave it to them.

Stop studying ancicent Greece Mr Bush - remember where We come from.

We are not Xenophon - we are more.

Remember what our fathers died to protect.

Joe

[GeorgeGist]

10. Being in finance, Joe ..

how long would you predict that the US dollar will remain the currency of choice?