Just some headline data in the Middle East

[skyraider]

Reuters
IRAN HAS SENT 150 elite fighters and has offered as many as 10,000 soldiers to its historic nemesis Iraq in the wake of a Sunni insurgency that has claimed two key northern cities and now threatens Baghdad, Fox News has learned.


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[Pilgrim]

A desperate Iraqi prime minister asks its former ally - the USA - for help in saving his country from being overrun by al-qaeda, and is essentially given lip service and some supplies. Iran - the world's largest state sponsor of radical Islamic terrorism - steps up to the plate and offers the badly needed military assistance which saves Maliki's butt and a new Islamist alliance is born as Iraq joins Syria as part of a new axis of evil with Iran. Meanwhile, as our troops turn Afghanistan over to the Taliban Obama settles in to watch the 2d round of the US Open and schedules another tee time for the weekend.

 

[RLENT]

Fixed it for ya:

"An authoritarian, anti-democratic sectarian Iraqi despot asks his former puppet masters - the USA - for help in saving his hold on power ..."

He probably should have thought ahead a little ... and considered the consequences more carefully about what the eventual outcome would be as he was busy excluding all Sunni's from power ...

If any of our resident ****-swingers don't like how it's being handled, then man up and head on over and get to setting things right ...

 

[skyraider]

Well we won't be bored now, there is enough news on the retaking of Middle East countries to last another 10 years,,,,,maybe the Taliban will take Saudi Arabia soon..........
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Question: What's the Difference Between Shia and Sunni Muslims? Answer: Both Sunni and Shia Muslims share the most fundamental Islamic beliefs and ...


Iraqi Kurds Seize Oil-Rich City Of Kirkuk As Sunni Militants ...
Iraqi Kurds Seize Oil-Rich City Of Kirkuk As Sunni Militants Surge Toward Baghdad

12 hours ago - In Mosul, Sunni militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) staged a parade of American Humvees seized from the collapsing ...

Shiite Cleric Calls on Iraqis to Defend Country - ABC News

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23 hours ago - His comments come as militants who seized large swaths of Iraq's Sunni heartland with lightning advances this week pushed into an ethnically ...

Iraq in paralysis after Sunni militants' blitz - Yahoo News
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Yahoo! News
4 hours ago - From Yahoo News: BAGHDAD (AP) — The Shiite-led government of Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki remained in paralysis Friday, unable ...

**************** all the above mess should shoot gas prices through the roof, but hey, fuel surcharge will fix that.................right?? not to worry.

 

[Turtle]

**************** all the above mess should shoot gas prices through the roof, but hey, fuel surcharge will fix that.................right?? not to worry.

Oil companies have never been at a loss for finding reasons to raise prices. If peace were to break out in the Middle East it would be cited as a reason for high oil prices, because it would spike demand for gas, and prices would have to go up in order to meet the demand.

Ever since 2008, both gas and oil prices are affected more by the ups and downs in the oil futures contract than anything else. The price depends on what investors think the price of gas or oil will be in the future. When traders think gas or oil prices will be high, they bid them up even higher. In this way, commodities traders create a self-fulfilling prophecy. This leads to an asset bubble, and the one who pays for that bubble at selling time is the consumer. If purchasers of these oil and gas contracts were forced to take actual delivery of said fuel and then sell it off by the gallon, this crap wouldn't be happening and the price of gas at the pump would be a third of what it is.