Or can't you follow a story line?
And who asked for such a dumb opinion in the first place?
Why should I give a rat's ass what YOU think or say, Buster?
The gist of this thread was to discuss the varied political interests for Caspian oil and gas and the US's interest in the region. If you can't follow a story line without throwing in some flaming bait, then you are no better than ebnelson with ADD.
As for the "loan", surely the Bush administration would look more pathetic to ask for it.
They know better than to uncover their greed TWICE. Why do they need it when they already have the contracts and the US taxpayers pick up the tab for the rest?
Oh, and they haven't exactly handed Iraq back to Iraq.
Did you read the part where three of the US's biggest oil companies have already invested 30 billion dollars in Azerbajaiin? That Dick Cheney five years ago said we needed to make it part of our foreign energy policy? No wonder we can't see his "energy policy". If we did, we might just throw up.
No, this conglomeration of oil barons (with a hometown of Texas), plan to secure those oil reserves for themselves, using the blood of American soldiers as their power base. And I mean, who's going to stop them? They have everything already.
Permission by Congress. GWB as dictator and Commander in Chief. "National Security".
All paid for by the hypnotized masses and their hard earned money. What a beautiful design.
Hegemony.
All this focus to wean us off the Arab oil and secure our own elsewhere. Going into "their land" to force co-operation. Oh yes, this will be a long and bloody war. Blood for oil.
The author of this story has interviewed a lot of the players in that drama and has pointed out that we risk conflict with the Russians and Chinese by stepping into their outlying provinces. And that the two of them plan a type of alliance against us near Kyrgystan is the beginning of an ominous direction we might not want to pursue.
The fact we gave 500 million dollars to a brutal communist dictator there to "shoot people in the head himself if he has to", and by having the State Department take them off our list of those suffereing from religious prosecution........well, what do you think Buster?
That this will be a cakewalk?
Trolls like you should be moderated off this board.
Go to hell.
And Robert or Dan, if you read this; please note that a lot of your long time community members are disappearing because of people like this.