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HappyTownTiger 
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| I say frick the Middle East (Posted on 9/14/12 at 9:46 pm)
I say pull out everyone. Soldiers, ambassadors, missionaries, peace Corp, whoever. Be DONE with them in every capacity. Let their neighboring countries deal with them. We can't win them over no matter how much our President tries.
I would be fine if we didn't report any news story dealing with any conflict over there.
Anyone else feel this way?
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slim thug
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| re: I say frick the Middle East (Posted on 9/14/12 at 9:47 pm to HappyTownTiger)
How you gonna fill your car with gas?
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| re: I say frick the Middle East (Posted on 9/14/12 at 9:49 pm to HappyTownTiger)
Why can't we just colonize like the good old days?
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THRILLHO 
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| re: I say frick the Middle East (Posted on 9/14/12 at 9:54 pm to slim thug)
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How you gonna fill your car with gas?
77% of the gas we use in the US comes from domestic sources.
And I agree 100% with the OP. If they all want to kill themselves over stupid shite and continue living like it's the dark ages, go ahead. I say keep some strategic bases near the middle east just in case, but for the most part, bring everyone home. Not just in the ME, but we're helping other countries pay for their defense:
35K US troops in Japan, 56K in Germany, 10K in Italy, and 9K in the UK. Bring them all home, focus on protecting our own border, and lay off those soldiers that we don't need (but with a very nice severance package, like continue paying their salary for a year or two, which they could use to help pay for school or use as supplemental income while working another job).
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| re: I say frick the Middle East (Posted on 9/14/12 at 9:56 pm to Hugo Stiglitz)
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Why can't we just colonize like the good old days?
Because the libs would scream bloody murder. Those great days are over sadly.
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| re: I say frick the Middle East (Posted on 9/14/12 at 9:58 pm to HappyTownTiger)
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I say frick the Middle East
If a muslim kills someone, anywhere in the world. . .it will be your fault.
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---Barack Obama
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| re: I say frick the Middle East (Posted on 9/14/12 at 9:58 pm to slim thug)
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How you gonna fill your car with gas?
With Wind and Solar like Obama said.
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slim thug
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| re: I say frick the Middle East (Posted on 9/14/12 at 10:00 pm to THRILLHO)
I'm gonna need to see a link for that
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Touchdowns4LSU
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| re: I say frick the Middle East (Posted on 9/14/12 at 10:02 pm to HappyTownTiger)
I don't want to be loved. I want to be feared. This knocking off one terrorist here or there isn't putting the fear into the crazies
If we're not careful we are going to have a major hostage situation on our hands ala Iran/Carter. Get the Marines to all USA official offices in the area and shoot the first mofo who shows up with a weapon
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HappyTownTiger
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| re: I say frick the Middle East (Posted on 9/14/12 at 10:03 pm to Wild Thang)
They are really like animals, going full retard over some movie trailer disrespecting Muhammad.
And to think I was one of the idiots who thought democracy would take hold a decade ago.
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THRILLHO
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| re: I say frick the Middle East (Posted on 9/14/12 at 10:04 pm to slim thug)
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I'm gonna need to see a link for that
LINK
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It's no pipe dream. The U.S. is already the world's fastest-growing oil and natural gas producer. Counting the output from Canada and Mexico, North America is "the new Middle East," Citigroup analysts declare in a recent report. The U.S. Energy Information Agency says U.S. oil imports will drop 20% by 2025. Oil giant BP projects the U.S. will get 94% of its energy domestically by 2030, up from 77% now, as oil imports fall by half. Energy billionaire T. Boone Pickens, a major investor in oil and natural-gas companies, said the U.S. can at least end oil imports from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, about half its total, through new drilling and by shifting diesel-swilling trucks to natural gas. Any other oil needs should be from politically stable allies such as Canada, Pickens said.
This despite Obama's doing his best to fight it.
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| re: I say frick the Middle East (Posted on 9/14/12 at 10:06 pm to slim thug)
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How you gonna fill your car with gas?
you saying we don't have oil to spare? You kidding me? 
Bro we sittin on a lot of oil we haven't gotten into yet.
Here just did some research to back up the facts.
U.S. Energy Resources
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Codythetiger
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| re: I say frick the Middle East (Posted on 9/14/12 at 10:07 pm to Codythetiger)
I honestly believe we are just draining everybody else of their oil supply so that when they need oil, good ole USA can sell it to them... for a price that is 
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slim thug
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| re: I say frick the Middle East (Posted on 9/14/12 at 10:07 pm to THRILLHO)
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up from 77% now
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the U.S. can at least end oil imports from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, about half its total
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THRILLHO
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| re: I say frick the Middle East (Posted on 9/14/12 at 10:09 pm to slim thug)
It is a bit poorly worded in the article:
100% of total gas usage in the US
- 77% being domestic
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23% imported
50% of our imported gas comes from OPEC nations = 11.5% of our total oil comes from the ME. I'd imagine the other 11.5% comes from the likes of South America and Russia.
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| re: I say frick the Middle East (Posted on 9/14/12 at 10:11 pm to HappyTownTiger)
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I say pull out everyone. Soldiers, ambassadors, missionaries, peace Corp, whoever.
Keep the embassies, blast anyone who makes it over the fence. Should be what's happening now.
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slim thug
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| re: I say frick the Middle East (Posted on 9/14/12 at 10:12 pm to THRILLHO)
Oh ok. Thanks.
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Zed
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| re: I say frick the Middle East (Posted on 9/14/12 at 10:28 pm to THRILLHO)
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I'd imagine the other 11.5% comes from the likes of South America and Russia.
Canada and Mexico I think.
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TupeloTiger
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| re: I say frick the Middle East (Posted on 9/14/12 at 10:34 pm to HappyTownTiger)
HappyTownTiger--- I agree with you 100% and I am a patriotic Conservative,but, get out, get out now. Leave the ME. I know the arguments to stay,but, get out of Afganistan and Iraq 100%. Pull out of every country that attacked out Embassies and burned our flag. Stop ALL foreign aid Monday,no money,no aid. Don't rebuild burned Embassies, don't clean up, just leave ,get out. Start over. We get oil from Saudi Arabia,forget everyone else. Forget them. We can get oil from Canada, the pipeline, ANWAR Alaska, Texas, La.. We have natural gas out our ears and oil in Alaska. Get out,no foreign aid. We need to cut a trillion a year to save our country. this is a good start.
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Zed
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| re: I say frick the Middle East (Posted on 9/14/12 at 10:37 pm to TupeloTiger)
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We can get oil from Canada, the pipeline, ANWAR Alaska, Texas, La.. We have natural gas out our ears and oil in Alaska. Get out,no foreign aid. We need to cut a trillion a year to save our country. this is a good start.
It's not just about us getting our oil though. Instability in the middle east will still affect oil prices even if we're getting our oil from elsewhere.
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