Speaking of Iran … I happened to notice this news article:

MADRID, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Spain’s Repsol and Royal Dutch Shell expect to sign a preliminary deal with Iran in coming days for a $4.3 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant and port terminal, a source close to the deal said on Tuesday.

Repsol and Shell hope to clinch a final agreement on the facilities, which would serve part of Iran’s South Pars gas field, by late this year or early in 2008, said the source, asking not to be named.

One of the reasons I don’t buy Shell Oil products is that the Dutch parent company gets the majority of their revenue stream from us here in the US. That company is a major player in the development of Iran’s oil and gas infrastructure. A portion of the revenue from every gallon of gas you buy from Shell indirectly goes to develop Iran’s revenue production and eventually goes toward supporting terrorism.

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This is a much bigger deal than imagined. The Gulf states are more in danger of an Iranian hegemony than anyone else, but those tiny little states have some serious firepower.

In December 1998, counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke warned that Al Queda was prepping to attack the US, in the US, during the Christmas/New Years period. He was also involed in at least 3 capture/kill opportunities that the US had on Bin Laden between December 98 and March 99.

Where was our counter-terrorism czar during the highest point of terrorist threat to the US to date?

He was off in the UAE selling specially modified F-16s to his friends there.

This is important not only because the 911 plot was set in motion at this time, not only because the US had FIVE entire carrier battlegroups in the region bombing the hell outta Iraq in a wag-the-dog Operation Desert Fox, but because the UAE was armed with fighter-bombers that at the time were better than any in the USAF!

Those F-16′s are almost the same as the ones Israel bought from us-having been specially designed to fly from Israel to Tehran. I have no doubt that the UAE’s F16′s can do the same.

Now combined
the UAE’s special fighter-bombers
Saudi’s Air Force
the air and naval forces of all the little Gulf States combined
Israel’s Air Force
FIVE American carrier battlegroups
American air bases in Iraq, Afghanistan, and in the Gulf States

Ya know whatchya get?

A strike force capable of reducing Iran to lawlessness in 4weeks or less.

The military option exists-it’s just limited to strikes, perhaps even strikes and invasion, but there is A MILITARY OPTION that is off the table: occupation.

American forces just can’t occupy everything from Syria to Pakistan.

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