Expect a mid-october "suprise" invasion. Early enough to affect the polls with patriotic fervour, late enough that it cannot possibly start going wrong before the polls close. keep to the Fen Causeway
Which will take about as long as it's taking to pacify Iraq no doubt. keep to the Fen Causeway
Don't forget that Iran has medium range missiles, and would be perfectly capable of doing remote damage to US land and sea forces in Iraq, Turkey and other areas in the Middle East if it decides to get defensive. It would take an incredibly successful and coordinated initial barrage from the US to remove that capability. And that's not likely to happen either.
I think it's more likely that this whole pantomime is yet another cynical move to drive up prices. Bush probably doesn't much care that it will ruin the US as long as his Texas and Saudi buddies are getting richer. He really does seem to be that stupid, disconnected and cynical.
Probably a stupid question. I just don't understand what releasing strategic gasoline reserve means, but would like to learn. Atlantic Review - A press digest on transatlantic affairs edited by three German Fulbright Alumni
The US has a strategic crude oil reserve, which Bush filled up to capacity for the first time in many years at some point in his first term - must have been in 2002, but I don't remember.
The Village Voice: Pumping Us Dry (September 2nd 2005)
Katrina tragedy is an absolutely perfect storm for oil companies ... If the companies can't increase their refined products, they could end up turning not to the petroleum reserve but to the European Union. While the U.S. keeps a supply of crude oil in its strategic reserve, the Europeans maintain a stock of gasoline as well as crude. There has been speculation that in a really tight situation, the EU might be called on to export some of that supply to the U.S.
Don't know if it is the same in the rest of EU. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
I didn't know gasoline was traded internationally as well. Atlantic Review - A press digest on transatlantic affairs edited by three German Fulbright Alumni
