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Oh, but there is. I was working on a seismic survey there a few years back. Nigeria is also another country, just up the road that has a large oil field. The oil companies seem to think it is out there. Nigeria, Gabon, P Republic of Congo all have big oil interests. (We worked out of Port gentil, Libreville, and Pointe Noire.)
Always remember this one floating about around the time of the Afghan invasion, love dubya on those bongos.
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Hansen said:
That means it is only a matter of excuse before the Americans will invade
I know, we are so horrible. Wait...it's Africa, that bottomless pit we(and Europe) have been throwing money at for the last 30 plus years....on second thought, invasion might do them good....throw out the warlords, develop the oilfields and employ the locals, spinoff economies, etc.....exploitation, but the kind that benefits the natives too for a change; that will be new for them. Sounds sort of nasty? Welcome to the real world. Take care of your own and, in the process, do the best you can for others. IF YOU DON'T do that, emerging nations WILL and you will be left behind to "bitch" about it to those who care very much less than you....as they pass you by!
jimbeaux said:
Oh yes he did.
Who, when....I can look up and print transcripts.
Give me the guy's name and maybe whose show he appeared on and if there is footage available I'll get it.
Best one I saw on RNN was when Bill O' Reilly got totally owned by this Iraq war vet's son (IIRC), Bill lost the plot and the guy wanted to continue the debate and all he could do was to repeatedly tell the guy to shutup. Classic.
jimbeaux said:
Oh yes he did.
Who, when....I can look up and print transcripts.
Around mid July if I remember correctly. Sorry I don’t recall which show it was. The story focused on Jane Fonda organising some sort of cross-country bus tour to call for the US to withdraw its military from Iraq.
Fox put up some archive footage from her involvement in Vietnam. Then they interviewed the somewhat out spoken vet. He, in a rather forthright manner said that he supported Fonder's position.
It was obvious he was not responding the way Fox thought he would. At the end the interviewer said he would be appearing on Fox again.
The cynic in me also noticed that Jane Fonder was also promoting her new book "My Life So Far"
los angeles said:
Let me see now, the Fox newscaster was masquerading as a journalist, the 'Nam vet was masquerading as a political pundit, Jane Fonda was masquerading as an autobiographical writer ... and all were appearing on a cable news network masquerading as a television broadcaster, while the programme itself was pretending to transmit real news that wasn't.
>> Edited by los angeles on Tuesday 23 August 01:51
Well if you put it like that……. Yep
Hansen said:
That means it is only a matter of excuse before the Americans will invade
Damn, who leaked this? I guess the cats outta' the bag now. Might as well continue with the plan to invade every country on Earth anyway, as we are the one remaining super power on the planet and no one can stop us. Jimbeaux, Ernest, Seafarer, the rest of the Yanks we are still "Go" continue as ordered by our fearless leader and big toe, George W. Bush.....
MUHHWAAhaahahaa!!!...
I used to take comments such as Hanson's personally when I first arrived at Pistonheads........now I just consider the source.
>> Edited by Trooper2 on Tuesday 23 August 05:51
Trooper2 said:
That means it is only a matter of excuse before the Americans will invade
Damn, who leaked this? I guess the cats outta' the bag now. Might as well continue with the plan to invade every country on Earth anyway, as we are the one remaining super power on the planet and no one can stop us. Jimbeaux, Ernest, Seafarer, the rest of the Yanks we are still "Go" continue as ordered by our fearless leader and big toe, George W. Bush.....
MUHHWAAhaahahaa!!!...
I used to take comments such as Hanson's personally when I first arrived at Pistonheads........now I just consider the source.
>> Edited by Trooper2 on Tuesday 23 August 05:51
Roger that Trooper2....falling in on Big Toe....azimuth 85 degrees
Really tailed off since 'Mmmmbop'... jimbeaux said:
That means it is only a matter of excuse before the Americans will invade
I know, we are so horrible. Wait...it's Africa, that bottomless pit we(and Europe) have been throwing money at for the last 30 plus years....on second thought, invasion might do them good....throw out the warlords, develop the oilfields and employ the locals, spinoff economies, etc.....exploitation, but the kind that benefits the natives too for a change; that will be new for them. Sounds sort of nasty? Welcome to the real world. Take care of your own and, in the process, do the best you can for others. IF YOU DON'T do that, emerging nations WILL and you will be left behind to "bitch" about it to those who care very much less than you....as they pass you by!
When GB used to 'own' most of the world we were made out to be monsters. Now everyone can look back and say we actually did a pretty good job. Yes we did make mistakes, yes we did end up killing people but no where near the scale of the things that have gone on since.
Now we have an American suggesting that yes, these people would be much better off if they were ruled by someone else. He is probably representive of most Americans view on this sort of matter. He is probably also right as lots of these countries are rife with racial tension, poverty and corruption.
The majority of people in these 3rd world countries probably couldn't care who ruled them as long as their lot is a better one.
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