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    20% For Safe Passage of an International Waterway?

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    57 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

     

     

     

    "Based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership, I have decided to replace the 20 percent United States Reimbursement Fee with Trade and Investment Deals that the various Gulf States will be making into the United States,” Trump wrote"

     

    So, made his initial,  ridiculridiculously high asking price,  haggled some with interested parties, and, at least on paper,  got what he really wanted. 

     

    Yes he did...not about oil....right.

     

    President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Iran has been "very much destabilized" after being a "big burden on Iraq," and that U.S. oil companies are now entering Iraq at “levels that have never been seen before.” 

    The president, speaking alongside Iraq’s new prime minister Ali al-Zaidi at the White House, said “Iran was a big burden on Iraq because they were the bully of the Middle East.”  

    “But they're not going to have that problem anymore, because Iran has been very much destabilized. And really, their military power is just a tiny fraction of what it was just four months ago,” Trump added. 

    "So they're not going to have that problem. I think it's really, in a sense that's given them freedom to do what they have to do. And I think that's one of the reasons that our oil companies are going in there at levels that have never been seen before,” Trump also said. 

    20% For Safe Passage of an International Waterway?

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    2 minutes ago, Colorado Coffinmaker said:

     

    So, ignoring the "Oil" issue (which we don't need) for the moment.  If it's all about  NUKES, why haven't we attacked North Korea??  

     

    Because they already have nukes and the US has vested interests in South Korea and Japan which N. Korea's missiles can easily hit, along with possibly the west coast of the US. Can't wage war on countries that ALREADY have nukes (and a crazy dictator) lest it become a nuke war.

     

    BTW - Technically, North and South Korea are still at war with each other.

    20% For Safe Passage of an International Waterway?

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    Didn't spell Strait straight.

    1 hour ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

    The NATO countries get most of their oil through the strait, that’s all I’m saying and Iran wants to block it and control it. It’s not theirs to control.

     

    Why aren't NATO countries doing anything about it then? If it really mattered to NATO countries, they'd be helping the US blow the crap out of Iran every time Iran attacks shipping in the Hormuz. A few of them are letting the US use their airspace and/or air bases....that's it. Seems to me that if the oil that goes through the Strait was that important to them, they'd put their troops and equipment on the line to protect their own national security.

     

    I'm not saying to let Iran control the Strait, far from it. If I had anything to do with it, there wouldn't be an Iran. I just saying that no amount of the Middle East oil is worth one drop of American blood or American pain at the pumps, grocery stores or anywhere else for that matter.

     

     

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    20% For Safe Passage of an International Waterway?

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    30 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

    We’re protecting the Strait of Hermuz  so these other countries can get their oil and other supplies through. You’re darn right we should be reimbursed. Those other countries aren’t doing anything! 20% is a bargain. It’s our ships and military that’s protecting the Strait. We need to be reimbursed for sure!

     

    The US imports about 10% of the crude oil used in US refineries from the Middle East. Oil prices are once again shooting through the roof even though the vast majority of US crude is from domestic and Canadian sources. US crude oil is priced the same as everyone else's crude oil.

     

    Americans are not only paying the price at the pumps but also on every other commodity due to rising oil global oil prices. Middle Eastern oil that the US doesn't even need. Once again, the American consumer gets hosed while the already ultra rich oil companies rake in even more revenue. Anyone that believes that tacking 20% "protection" fees will benefit everyday Americans is hallucinating.

     

    All we are doing is becoming mercenaries for the oil companies and risking/endangering our brave military personal and equipment to do it. This isn't about nukes, it's about oil and making billionaires into trillionaires, plain and simple.

    one of those good days

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    29 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

    The factory speakers in my Jeep were just cheap. I replaced them with larger three way aftermarket speakers. With the top off I need a little higher volume. I get some attention in traffic. I can't say whether it's just that OR my singing along with Waylon, Willie, Hank Jr. , etc. 

     

    That's why I keep the windows rolled up in my truck. Don't want anyone to think that a rabid bulldog is trying to sing and yodel at the same time.

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    one of those good days

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    My truck has a CD player in it. Had the speakers replaced in it a few months ago. The Ford factory paper speakers had disintegrated into nothing.

     

    Played the 'Free For All" album by Ted Nugent the other day....it was GREAT! 

    I guess that all of those years in construction must have made me deaf....I had to turn it up a bit, just a bit.

     

    Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes

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    26 minutes ago, Calamity Kris said:

     

    Sorry to call a foul but that has to be photo-shopped..  There is no way a person, any person, can hold a ladder in that position with that much weight and torque so far out on the end.  

     

    Maybe he changes semi tires when he's not holding ladders!:rolleyes::P

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