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What part of the definition of a weapon do you not understand? A weapon, by definition, is any device used to injure, defeat, or destroy living beings, structures, or systems, and Agent Orange did not qualify under that definition.
You did get it half right. Agent Orange was a powerful mixture of chemical defoliants used by U.S. military forces during the Vietnam War to eliminate forest cover for North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops, as well as crops that might be used to feed them.
How do you defend yourself with a nuke? Seriously, Dude...you REALLY think Iran wants to defend itself with nuclear weapons? Or that Iraq wanted to defend itself with nuclear weapons? Just how naive are you?
Your first statement is pure bullshit. Has absolutely nothing to do with anything except your hatred of Bush.
Secondly, Saudi Arabia runs OPEC. This is because it is the largest supplier in the global distribution of oil from OPEC. Iraq's production was a drop in the bucket, compared to almost all the other OPEC countries. The price manipulation, at the time of the Iraq War, was sought by the OPEC nations as the price per barrel had plummeted and their cutting back production was the way that they used to raise prices. The HYPE of the cut off of Iraq oil, by the war, although negligible, raised the price on commodity markets, and at the pump. After it was seen that the loss of Iraq oil did NOTHING to production (Saudi Arabia picked up whatever slack Iraq had been) the price subsided again.
It wasn't about oil, That's historically proven.
Your first statement is pure bullshit. Has absolutely nothing to do with anything except your hatred of Bush.
Er.... no, i didn't particularly like Bush, he was a maniac who went to war for oil. Then so did Obama. In fact I don't particularly like the US govt, nor the govts of other countries like the UK, China, France etc etc etc.
That's what govts and politicians are. They often do things that makes it easy for people to hate.
However you're putting me in the "you love democrats no matter what and hate republicans no matter what" category. It seems this is the default for people to slap each other with. But, I'm not in this category.
Secondly, Saudi Arabia runs OPEC. This is because it is the largest supplier in the global distribution of oil from OPEC. Iraq's production was a drop in the bucket, compared to almost all the other OPEC countries. The price manipulation, at the time of the Iraq War, was sought by the OPEC nations as the price per barrel had plummeted and their cutting back production was the way that they used to raise prices. The HYPE of the cut off of Iraq oil, by the war, although negligible, raised the price on commodity markets, and at the pump. After it was seen that the loss of Iraq oil did NOTHING to production (Saudi Arabia picked up whatever slack Iraq had been) the price subsided again.
It wasn't about oil, That's historically proven.
Saudi Arabia doesn't run OPEC.
In fact in 1999 when Chavez was elected democratically to be leader of Venezuela, he went to OPEC and said they should cut production to increase prices.
Chavez Tells OPEC to Use Politics, Curb `Imperialism' (Update1) - Bloomberg
"Chavez Tells OPEC to Use Politics, Curb `Imperialism' "
Hugo Chavez: The man who raised oil prices
"Hugo Chavez: The man who raised oil prices" November 2000
"One man is responsible for the trebling the price of crude oil in the past 18 months. Not only that, he is a leftist opponent of globalisation and a bosom friend of Fidel Castro (with whom he played baseball and sang a duet for the TV cameras recently). As such, he deserves a place in the pantheon of demons alongside Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Molosevic. But far from being demonised, his name is barely mentioned in the media here."
Oh, the right seemed to have a problem with him, alongside "leftist" Saddam, as if Saddam was a leftist. He increased oil prices because of what I said. You can read that article if you like.
BBC NEWS | Business | Chavez warning opens Opec summit
"Chavez warning opens Opec summit"
""If the United States was mad enough to attack Iran or aggress Venezuela again the price of a barrel of oil could reach $150 or even $200," he said."
Why would Chavez think the US was going to invade Iran? Oh yeah, OPEC member which doesn't like the US, Iraq went, Libya went, Venezuela went for 4 days, and Iran......... hasn't gone.
Chavez DIED Dec. 2012! ....WE have an excess of oil that we are now EXPORTING
For the past twenty plus years, Americans have been told that gas prices at the pump continue to rise because we have to import most of our oil from other countries. Being the trusting and gullible people we are, we believed them until more recently.
Over the past ten years, prices at the pumps have hit record highs. Again they tried to tell us it was because of the price of oil overseas. When the public started to wise up, they changed their story to the political volatility in the Middle East and speculative buying of oil. At the same time, the major oil companies were reporting record profits and that only served to infuriate the American public.
Today, we learned that for the first time since 1949, that fuels (gasoline, diesel and jet fuel) have become this countries number one export? Thats right, we are now exporting more oil than we are importing. And yet we are still being told that the price of oil overseas and the volatility of the Middle East continue to control the prices at the pump.
You would think that if we were producing that much oil in the United States that we would keep it here in our own country, but thats not the case. There is nothing official that requires US oil companies to supply US needs first. As it turns out, it is more profitable for US oil companies to sell their fuels to other countries than it is to sell it to US consumers.
The price of gasoline and the increased concern for the environment has led auto makers to start producing more gas efficient cars and trucks. This has supposedly reduced the demand on domestic oil. At the same time the oil refineries have contracted while international demand has increased. Due to the laws of supply and demand, it becomes more profitable for the oil companies to sell overseas, causing US oil supplies to drop which in turn causes domestic prices at the pump to increase.
So as you hear reports about the need for the Keystone XL pipeline, along with the processes of extracting oil from oil sands and fracking to get oil from shale, ask yourself how much of this oil will remain here in the US and how much of it is going to other countries. Will these increase oil supplies serve to make the US less dependent on foreign oil or will they only serve to increase the profits of the big oil companies?
And believe it or not, many energy experts say that if the companies are forced to keep more of the domestic oil here in the US that it would actually increase prices at the pump rather than bring them down. Concerning the future prices at the pumps, one expert said that refiners are satisfied with the demand and export balance and that the prices in 2012 are all going to depend on the price of crude oil prices since the US demand is still declining and the refined supply seems adequate, at least to the oil companies.
America Exporting More Fuel than Importing but Gas Prices Still High
Chavez DIED Dec. 2012! ....WE have an excess of oil that we are now EXPORTING
For the past twenty plus years, Americans have been told that gas prices at the pump continue to rise because we have to import most of our oil from other countries. Being the trusting and gullible people we are, we believed them until more recently.
Over the past ten years, prices at the pumps have hit record highs. Again they tried to tell us it was because of the price of oil overseas. When the public started to wise up, they changed their story to the political volatility in the Middle East and speculative buying of oil. At the same time, the major oil companies were reporting record profits and that only served to infuriate the American public.
Today, we learned that for the first time since 1949, that fuels (gasoline, diesel and jet fuel) have become this countries number one export? Thats right, we are now exporting more oil than we are importing. And yet we are still being told that the price of oil overseas and the volatility of the Middle East continue to control the prices at the pump.
You would think that if we were producing that much oil in the United States that we would keep it here in our own country, but thats not the case. There is nothing official that requires US oil companies to supply US needs first. As it turns out, it is more profitable for US oil companies to sell their fuels to other countries than it is to sell it to US consumers.
The price of gasoline and the increased concern for the environment has led auto makers to start producing more gas efficient cars and trucks. This has supposedly reduced the demand on domestic oil. At the same time the oil refineries have contracted while international demand has increased. Due to the laws of supply and demand, it becomes more profitable for the oil companies to sell overseas, causing US oil supplies to drop which in turn causes domestic prices at the pump to increase.
So as you hear reports about the need for the Keystone XL pipeline, along with the processes of extracting oil from oil sands and fracking to get oil from shale, ask yourself how much of this oil will remain here in the US and how much of it is going to other countries. Will these increase oil supplies serve to make the US less dependent on foreign oil or will they only serve to increase the profits of the big oil companies?
And believe it or not, many energy experts say that if the companies are forced to keep more of the domestic oil here in the US that it would actually increase prices at the pump rather than bring them down. Concerning the future prices at the pumps, one expert said that refiners are satisfied with the demand and export balance and that the prices in 2012 are all going to depend on the price of crude oil prices since the US demand is still declining and the refined supply seems adequate, at least to the oil companies.
America Exporting More Fuel than Importing but Gas Prices Still High
Yeah, it will be interesting to see how this effects US foreign policy in the future. Also how much this damages the Republicans who often use war as a tool for getting people in their place.
Certainly it is harder now for the US govt to convince people to go to war in Iran over oil.
I mean seriously the guy has lied to the American people so many times I have lost count.
He has more scandals under his belt than all the presidents combined and has put us in more debt than all of the previous presidents.
You really have to be brain dead at this point to think anything he does is going to benefit the American People.
Why in the world would we want Iranian oil when we have a SURPLUS?
And Obama voted AGAINST debt increases when they were Bush's.Bush & the Republicans - Debt Ceiling Increases
June 2002: Congress approves a $450 billion increase, raising the debt limit to $6.4 trillion.
McConnell, Boehner, and Cantor vote yea
May 2003: Congress approves a $900 billion increase, raising the debt limit to $7.384 trillion.
McConnell, Boehner, Kyle, and Cantor vote yea
November 2004: Congress approves an $800 billion increase, raising the debt limit to $8.1 trillion.
McConnell, Boehner, Kyle, and Cantor vote yea
March 2006: Congress approves a $781 billion increase, raising the debt limit to $8.965 trillion.
McConnell, Boehner, Kyle, and Cantor vote yea
(Psst: if you fucking people didn't spend so much, we'd take you seriously)
Good Lord! Dumb is everywhere on the left!
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/25546334#.U0fiT9-etc8
The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.
The removal of 550 metric tons of "yellowcake" the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam's nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to U.S. and Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or smugglers crossing to Iran to aunacceptable sourceid its nuclear ambitions.
What's now left is the final and complicated push to clean up the remaining radioactive debris at the former Tuwaitha nuclear complex about 12 miles south of Baghdad using teams that include Iraqi experts recently trained in the Chernobyl fallout zone in Ukraine.
"Everyone is very happy to have this safely out of Iraq," said a senior U.S. official who outlined the nearly three-month operation to The Associated Press. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.
While yellowcake alone is not considered potent enough for a so-called "dirty bomb" a conventional explosive that disperses radioactive material it could stir widespread panic if incorporated in a blast. Yellowcake also can be enriched for use in reactors and, at higher levels, nuclear weapons using sophisticated equipment.
The Iraqi government sold the yellowcake to a Canadian uranium producer, Cameco Corp., in a transaction the official described as worth "tens of millions of dollars." A Cameco spokesman, Lyle Krahn, declined to discuss the price, but said the yellowcake will be processed at facilities in Ontario for use in energy-producing reactors.
"We are pleased ... that we have taken (the yellowcake) from a volatile region into a stable area to produce clean electricity," he said.
snopes.com: Yellowcake Uranium Removed from Iraq
Your SNOPES tale is also MISLEADING as they answer the question "The removal of yellow cake uranium from Iraq in 2008 proved that Saddam Hussein had been trying to start Iraq's nuclear program" PROVES that yellow cake WAS IN IRAQ!!! We haven't stated, nor can anyone tell what Saddam was planning to do with it! He's DEAD and unable to tell us what his plans were for it. If you can CHANNEL Saddam, from wherever he is, please do, and get his statement notarized for proof!
Why in the world would we want Iranian oil when we have a SURPLUS?
It's not about the US wanting Iranian oil. It's about the US wanting Iran to produce more oil to reduce oil prices.
Why the US would want lower oil prices when it can sell oil for higher is probably because the US is the highest consumer of oil in the world. So it costs the US economy more when oil prices are higher.
It's trade for a 1.5 Billion nuclear reactor...do you read what's posted?
So Iran wants nuclear weapons. The US has nuclear weapons.
It's trade for a 1.5 Billion nuclear reactor...do you read what's posted?
Nope, I don't read sources with no opinion from the person who is using a source to try and make a point.
So, it's a nuclear reactor. So what? The US has nuclear weapons, so what? The US has even used them to kill lots of people.
I mean seriously the guy has lied to the American people so many times I have lost count.
He has more scandals under his belt than all the presidents combined and has put us in more debt than all of the previous presidents.
You really have to be brain dead at this point to think anything he does is going to benefit the American People.
