Comments on: Obama looking for some asses to kick

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:35:35 +0000

I always thought that toxic dispersants were what came out of the mouths of politicians. I see nothing anywhere to make me even think of changing my mind. Put them all in a leaky life raft above the well head and see how quickly it gets cleaned up. I like the fine idea, and 40,000 BPD at $70 a barrel comes out to only $2,800,000 per diem. Quadruple that and you get $11,200,000 a day. That sounds like a fair sum if we make it retroactive, charge BP for the total cost of the clean-up, and give the $11,200,000 daily to those fishermen and other water business individuals to pay for some of their losses.

By: griff

griff — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:21:28 +0000

I referred to the Iranian offer of assistance in another thread, but I think you misinterpreted my point.

I never suggested that the Iranians offered to take over or run the operation, nor did I suggest that we should allow such a thing.

My point was that this offered an opportunity for Obama to show some diplomacy and statesmanship, a little courage. What we got was the same old arrogant dismissal that has become the cornerstone of our foreign policy.

No change here.

Would we really be in that much danger if we had a few Iranian engineers flown in? What on earth would they do? Jump off a boat, swim a mile into the sea and blow up a well that’s already been blown up? Devious indeed.

I dare not even consider what might happen if we were to suddenly find out that the middle east is inhabited by other humans. Makes me shudder.

By: jim0001

jim0001 — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:31:23 +0000

Special Forces Groups are geographically oriented. For example, the 7th SFGroup is geared for South / Central America, the 10th SF Group is oriented for the European theater, etc. The Army Special Forces lineage comes from the WWII Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Consequently the soldiers assigned to these groups are normally stationed in the Area of Operations (AO) that their Group has as it’s region of responsibility. In a number of cases they also posess physical attributes that allow them to blend in with the indegineous people of that region. It is geographical regions not countries per se that they are oriented toward.

By: woody188

woody188 — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:44:43 +0000

Toxic rain is falling, toxic rain is falling. Come on smart guy, put two and two together.

By: woody188

woody188 — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:44:02 +0000

If I were an Irani and you let me near the wellhead I’d sabotage it so it’s even worse than it is and then say, “My bad, I thought I knew what I was doing. Allah told me to screw you over to the nth degree anyway.” -Guardhouse lawyer

Actually speaks volumes about you and nothing about the Iranian government. Is subterfuge and sabotage a part of your everyday life or do you just save that for special occasions?

By: woody188

woody188 — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:39:57 +0000

Take it up with the Times, it’s their claim, not mine.

By: Jim0001

Jim0001 — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:29:33 +0000

Special Forces Groups are geographically oriented (i.e. 7th Group- South and Central America–10th Group-Europe–etc. etc. etc.). The lineage of Army Special Forces is from the OSS of WWII. These soldiers reflect in many traits and training the theatres they are required to operate in. They blend in with the indigenous people of their assigned areas. They have been and presumably will continue to be in these places.

By: Guardhouse lawyer

Guardhouse lawyer — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:50:04 +0000

You say this as though their killing most of the Al Qaeda leadership in Iraq in just the past three months is a bad thing.

Further, if you had carefully read the article you would have seen that “When Mr Obama took office US special forces were operating in fewer than 60 countries,” but now the special forces are operating in 75 countries. That means that the current administration has secretly deployed US special forces to about 15 countries, not 75 as you have alleged.

By: Guardhouse lawyer

Guardhouse lawyer — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:44:21 +0000

You read that article and concluded that it must be toxic dispersants coming down as rain? Even though there was not one word about the possible cause of the plant lesions in the article?

The sky is falling. The sky is falling.

By: Guardhouse lawyer

Guardhouse lawyer — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:39:10 +0000

I was talking about the Iranian Government’s offer to seal the wellhead in the Gulf, which was mentioned here recently. I was not talking about any Iranis who have immigrated to the US. Would you let an Iranian Government entity come anywhere near the shores of the US? I wouldn’t.