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(AFP) Scary Iran seizes Iraqi oil well. Oil well to be tried for illegally hiking on or near Iranian border   (news.yahoo.com) divider line 121
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Dr.Fey [TotalFark]
2009-12-18 12:25:41 PM
The Great War, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq I, Iraq II,
Afghanistan...
Democrats and Bushes - every foreign war had a bozo in office.
Anyone checked Obama for big floppy red shoes?
 
PacManDreaming [TotalFark]
2009-12-18 12:33:27 PM
I say we step back and let 'em fight it out. They aren't going to be happy(or at peace) until one of them has completely thrashed the other to pulp.
 
cazman
2009-12-18 12:41:08 PM
I doubt they "seized" it, more like "annexed" it. That seems to be the preferred terminology over there.
 
wee [TotalFark]
2009-12-18 12:42:51 PM
Well, Iran knows that Iraq has no real government, and so they can take what they want. We won their war for them, after all.
 
trouzourt
2009-12-18 12:45:37 PM
You know this secret muslim, Obama, is responsible for issues like this. if he had let Israel attack Iran's nuclear facilities when they wanted to instead of blocking their request, sh*t like this would not have been happening.
 
Foaming [TotalFark]
2009-12-18 12:47:58 PM
As long as they stay away from Twitter.
 
Weaver95 [TotalFark]
2009-12-18 12:49:55 PM
Foaming: As long as they stay away from Twitter.

too late.
 
Sleeping Monkey [TotalFark]
2009-12-18 12:50:08 PM
Obviously, we should invade Kazakhstan.
 
witchofthedogs
2009-12-18 01:08:27 PM
trouzourt: You know this secret muslim, Obama, is responsible for issues like this. if he had let Israel attack Iran's nuclear facilities when they wanted to instead of blocking their request, sh*t like this would not have been happening.

You are so goddamned cute when you get all foamy at the mouth.
 
The_Sponge [TotalFark]
2009-12-18 01:21:18 PM
That was a very crude thing to do.
 
Sleeping Monkey [TotalFark]
2009-12-18 01:21:26 PM
trouzourt: You know this secret muslim, Obama, is responsible for issues like this. if he had let Israel attack Iran's nuclear facilities when they wanted to instead of blocking their request, sh*t like this would not have been happening.

Yeah, because Israel does whatever Obama tells them to.
 
Thoguh [TotalFark]
2009-12-18 01:27:28 PM
FTFA: "the Iraqis are "very concerned about the Iranians pulling oil out of fields underneath Iraq."

img690.imageshack.us
They will drink the Iraqi's milkshake, drink it right up.
 
Eddie Adams from Torrance [TotalFark]
2009-12-18 01:37:06 PM
Dr.Fey: The Great War, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq I, Iraq II,
Afghanistan...
Democrats and Bushes - every foreign war had a bozo in office.
Anyone checked Obama for big floppy red shoes?

You forgot The Spanish-American war.
 
klymen
2009-12-18 01:57:51 PM
Iraq and all of middle east should be given back to its rightful owner.

THE PERSIANS!
 
trouzourt
2009-12-18 02:00:03 PM
klymen: Iraq and all of middle east should be given back to its rightful owner.

THE PERSIANS!

I know right? I mean they have as much right to the land in Iraq as do the Israelies do towards Palestine. Show me a map from the Torah Age that shows Iraq on it..

//am i doing it right?
 
simplicimus [TotalFark]
2009-12-18 02:05:43 PM
We've always been at war with Persia.
 
The Stealth Hippopotamus [TotalFark]
2009-12-18 02:09:49 PM
well at least the Marines will not be bored this holiday season....
 
klymen
2009-12-18 02:20:27 PM
trouzourt: klymen: Iraq and all of middle east should be given back to its rightful owner.

THE PERSIANS!

I know right? I mean they have as much right to the land in Iraq as do the Israelies do towards Palestine. Show me a map from the Torah Age that shows Iraq on it..

//am i doing it right?

Yes you are.
 
trouzourt
2009-12-18 02:22:29 PM
Sleeping Monkey: Yeah, because Israel does whatever Obama tells them to.

did you even bother reading the link ?
its from haaretz.. which is a Israeli paper.
 
simplicimus [TotalFark]
2009-12-18 02:26:50 PM
trouzourt: klymen: Iraq and all of middle east should be given back to its rightful owner.

THE PERSIANS!

I know right? I mean they have as much right to the land in Iraq as do the Israelies do towards Palestine. Show me a map from the Torah Age that shows Iraq on it..

//am i doing it right?

Er, Babylonian Captivity, anyone?
 
impaler [TotalFark]
2009-12-18 02:36:12 PM
"the Iraqis are "very concerned about [neighboring countries] pulling oil out of fields underneath Iraq."

This is not a repeat from 1990.
 
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat
2009-12-18 02:51:25 PM
The_Sponge: That was a very crude thing to do.

Oil's well that ends well.
 
Snarfangel
2009-12-18 02:54:15 PM
I hope the oil is released unharmed.
 
PeppaJack
2009-12-18 03:01:38 PM
Thoguh: FTFA: "the Iraqis are "very concerned about the Iranians pulling oil out of fields underneath Iraq."


They will drink the Iraqi's milkshake, drink it right up.

Came for this.

/Drainage
 
vernonFL [TotalFark]
2009-12-18 03:14:49 PM
Thoguh: They will drink the Iraqi's milkshake, drink it right up.

Actually the Iraq/Kuwait war in 1991 was caused in part by Kuwait allegedly slant drilling and stealing oil from Iraq.
 
Clearance for Clarence
2009-12-18 03:21:22 PM
PacManDreaming: I say we step back and let 'em fight it out. They aren't going to be happy(or at peace) until one of them has completely thrashed the other to pulp.

You're right. The last war between the two countries went so well it really deserves to have an encore performance
 
silo123j
2009-12-18 03:23:49 PM
Well, now that Ramadan is over, the killing can begin.

I will hate Obama forever if he send our people down there to "defend" it.

\democrat
 
Lt. Cheese Weasel
2009-12-18 03:24:39 PM
vernonFL: Thoguh: They will drink the Iraqi's milkshake, drink it right up.

Actually the Iraq/Kuwait war in 1991 was caused in part by Kuwait allegedly slant drilling and stealing oil from Iraq.

Not quite the whole story. Saddam knew they were slant drilling and they paid him for the pleasure. He just wanted more money from them to do it. They told him to go pound sand and he started lopping heads.
 
Headso
2009-12-18 03:25:00 PM
The fear mongering headline: Iranian forces take over Iraq oil well

The real story at the very bottom of the article:

"What happens is, periodically, about every three or four months, the oil ministry guys from Iraq will go ... to fix something or do some maintenance. They'll paint it in Iraqi colours and throw an Iraqi flag up.

"They'll hang out there for a while, until they get tired, and as soon as they go away, the Iranians come down the hill and paint it Iranian colours and raise an Iranian flag. It happened about three months ago and it will probably happen again."
 
tforbes
2009-12-18 03:25:30 PM
and?


Looks like the US is going to have to go looking for WMDs in Iran now...

/Gotta get that oil
 
greentea1985 [TotalFark]
2009-12-18 03:26:02 PM
Isn't this how the first Gulf War started? We attacked Iraq because Iraq tried to take over Kuwait's oil fields. Now Iran is pulling the same thing. Of course, getting attacked is one of the few things that might help Ahmadinejad and Khamenei (sp?) right now.
 
toonz
2009-12-18 03:26:02 PM
klymen: Iraq and all of middle east should be given back to its rightful owner.

THE PERSIANS!

www.gotthelookpersiancats.com

Kan I haz wellz to makes de munny to buy cheezburgers for teh kittehs?
 
vernonFL [TotalFark]
2009-12-18 03:26:05 PM
Lt. Cheese Weasel: Saddam knew they were slant drilling and they paid him for the pleasure.

Thanks. That part I didn't know.
 
Devo
2009-12-18 03:26:54 PM
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Damn. They put up a flag.
 
SweetDickens
2009-12-18 03:27:24 PM
How much all that freedom cost ya 'mericans????

Farkin idiots still think you have not lost.

The country is broke......get it yet???????
 
Lt. Cheese Weasel
2009-12-18 03:28:13 PM
vernonFL: Lt. Cheese Weasel: Saddam knew they were slant drilling and they paid him for the pleasure.

Thanks. That part I didn't know.

Oil bidness family. The more you know....
 
XveryYpettyZ
2009-12-18 03:28:13 PM
Lt. Cheese Weasel: vernonFL: Thoguh: They will drink the Iraqi's milkshake, drink it right up.

Actually the Iraq/Kuwait war in 1991 was caused in part by Kuwait allegedly slant drilling and stealing oil from Iraq.

Not quite the whole story. Saddam knew they were slant drilling and they paid him for the pleasure. He just wanted more money from them to do it. They told him to go pound sand and he started lopping heads.

Also not quite the whole story.

Iraq owed Kuwait and Saudi Arabia a great deal of money for financing the Iran/Iraq war. Those bills were coming due and Saddam really didn't feel like paying for it. So he made slant drilling his issue and went and robbed the bank that was about to demand repayment of debt.
 
Stranded On The Planet Dumbass
2009-12-18 03:28:57 PM
Where does the distribution pipe from the well go? and who collects the money for the oil?
I doubt it's a little stripper well that collects on site.
 
toonz
2009-12-18 03:29:42 PM
woot!

War in the www.motorheadhotspots.com
Episode III: A new beginning.
 
Thisbymaster
2009-12-18 03:30:03 PM
If Iran wants the whole place, then they can have it.
 
Bossk'sSegway
2009-12-18 03:30:22 PM
Dick Cheney needs to come out and say how horrible it is for Iran to invade a sovereign country.
 
Tat'dGreaser [TotalFark]
2009-12-18 03:30:30 PM
PacManDreaming: I say we step back and let 'em fight it out. They aren't going to be happy(or at peace) until one of them has completely thrashed the other to pulp.

I remember some news article more then a few years ago about us sending a sh*t ton of our troops to some country. God, what was the name of that country? Last I heard we were still there. Jeez, someone help me out what was the name of that country?
 
indarwinsshadow
2009-12-18 03:31:19 PM
No glass parking lot pictures or references?

What's fark coming to?
 
Stonerbloopers
2009-12-18 03:31:21 PM
Damn, we finally got a reason to invade Iran, and GWB is nowhere to be found.
 
Dr._Love
2009-12-18 03:32:09 PM
www.instablogsimages.com

Did somebody just say "international incident" in the same story as "hole in the ground"?
 
Shrugging Atlas
2009-12-18 03:32:52 PM
SweetDickens: How much all that freedom cost ya 'mericans????

Farkin idiots still think you have not lost.

The country is broke......get it yet???????

Is that some sort of retarded Haiku? You ought to be wearing all black and smacking bongos while you say that in a smoky hipster bar.
 
EWreckedSean
2009-12-18 03:33:16 PM
PacManDreaming: I say we step back and let 'em fight it out. They aren't going to be happy(or at peace) until one of them has completely thrashed the other to pulp.

Did you miss the 80s?
 
tinyarena
2009-12-18 03:34:26 PM
europuppyblog.com

Yeah, I think we can work this out.
 
Dr._Love
2009-12-18 03:35:34 PM
Shrugging Atlas: SweetDickens: How much all that freedom cost ya 'mericans????

Farkin idiots still think you have not lost.

The country is broke......get it yet???????

Is that some sort of retarded Haiku? You ought to be wearing all black and smacking bongos while you say that in a smoky hipster bar.

FTFM:

What price for freedom?
Unwinnable war not won.
U.S.A. is broke.
 
Krymson Tyde [TotalFark]
2009-12-18 03:35:35 PM
Sleeping Monkey: Obviously, we should invade Kazakhstan.

We could use their superior potassium.
 
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