According to MENAFN News, Iraqi Oil Minister, Hussain Al-Shahristani, has today announced plans to construct an oil and natural gas pipeline to both Iran and Syria - scheduled to begin construction in 2008.
Both neighboring countries have been long accused by the United States of meddling inside Iraq and are both accused of fueling the ongoing […]
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates trip to the Middle East and the subsequent and substantial $63 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, Egypt and a handful of smaller Arab states has drawn considerable criticism back home from Presidential hopefuls (Edwards | Obama) and other media-starlets as an act of incompetent […]
Just as Reuters reports a third aircraft carrier group is being sent to join the Fifth Fleet parked off the coast of Iran, … the National Review (a surprisingly right-wing but critical voice against the Bush incompetency) says succinctly what many well-placed people remain stubbornly mute about: The ridiculous inability of the Bush administration to […]
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You know the war in Iraq is so far beyond recovery and success when the Bush Administration’s cable news mouthpiece, Fox News, shuns any mention of said war in favor of:
- Paris Hilton
- immigration reform so out of whack with reality as to emphasize the absurdity of Bush’s “Conversative” values and the far-left’s betrayal […]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is literally running out of time - politically, militarily, and rather frighteningly, spiritually! Iran is teasingly close to an all-out war with the United States and the consequences for Iran, the U.S., and the world are enormous and potentially cataclysmic.
Politically:
Conservative Ahmadinejad was swept into power in August 2005 on a […]
Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky is a Russian politician, deputy and vice-chairman of the State Duma (the Russian parliament), and a lawyer. Zhirinovsky is (also) the founder and the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), the third largest party in the Duma. He is also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council […]
Russian News & Information Agency (RIA Novosti) - a state run media outlet - published a report last week in which retired Russian General [Leonid] Ivashov proposes a detailed report on U.S. plans to strike Iran on Friday April 6.
General Ivashov was the Chief of Staff of the Russian armed forces during the September 11, […]
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has issued a thinly veiled threat to Iran over the 15 sailors snatched by Iran last Friday. AP reports Tony Blair as saying Britain is prepared to move to a “different phase” if diplomacy fails to deliver the British sailors.
Blair is expected to resign as Prime Minister in May after […]
If it wasn’t for the disgusting scale of destruction, death, and general chaotic carnage that is Iraq (circa 2007) it would be almost a pleasant and welcome distraction to be glib about the Iraq Oil Law.
To put it succinctly, the Iraqi Government’s approval of the ‘Iraq Oil Law‘ has opened the door to a dismantled […]