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Iran Takes Over Iraqi Oil Well

December 18, 2009

Sooner or later the Iranian envelope is going to be pushed too far.  On Thursday night Iranian forces captured an Iraqi oil well that is along a disputed border.
According to BBC
An Iraqi official played down the incident, saying the area was abandoned and right on a disputed border section.
Iranian soldiers crossed the border and raised [...]

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Seymour Hersh is Looking to the Next Battlefield

June 30, 2008

Let us hope that Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker is wrong, although records show that he has been right too many times for us to discount his latest assertion.

Hersh told CNN’s “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer” that Congress has authorized up to $400 million to fund the secret campaign, which involves U.S. special operations troops [...]

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March 21: The Week in Review

March 21, 2008

This week has been like bad sex, up and down and up and down, but interesting enough to hold our attention.
Before the week really began, the Fed backed JP Morgan Chase back Bear Stearns.  Best that can be said is Bernanke was flying by the seat of his pants.  Lots of smiles from the right but more frowns from [...]

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