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Dr.Phool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 12:53 PM
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Ok, Now that they've discovered oil in Cuba
How long before we liberate them?
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rkc3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 12:54 PM
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1. I think in the early 60's they had some WMD - so just a matter of weeks.
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shesemsmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 12:54 PM
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2. ROTF LMAO
GOOD QUESTION!!!!
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rman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 12:57 PM
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3. not worth it;
100 mil. barrels vs 80 mil. global daily use.
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superconnected Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 01:00 PM
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4. that's what liberals said about alaska
What it comes down to is, the companies devoloping it will make big money. They aren't trying to get enought to support us for life, they just want to reap and sell whats there.
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rman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 01:24 PM
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12. goes to show how desperate the situation is;
We're now in the process of sucking dry all the small oil fields as well. Sure it's worth some, but it's small fries compared to really large oil fields such as in the Caspain sea area and Venezuela.
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DownNotOut Donating Member (109 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 01:00 PM
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5. Yaaawwwwwwnnnnn
Edited on Thu Jan-13-05 01:01 PM by DownNotOut
another 'via la Cuba' thread....


DownNotOut
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ktowntennesseedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 01:01 PM
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6. Shouldn't take long.
Just got to figure out some way to link Castro to 9/11, pull some fuzzy satellite photos from NASA archives that maybe show buildings that might be converted to develop material for WMD, and convince Americans that France is against attacking, and we're in there!
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Dr.Phool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 01:04 PM
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8. Maybe they can claim
Castro was going to invade Guantanamo.
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OneTwentyoNine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 01:07 PM
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9. Yup,Castro was going to free all the TERORIST at Gitmo....
And its so close you could fight during the week and come home or party in Florida on the weekends!!

Sounds like a plan...
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superconnected Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 01:04 PM
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7. a note from Robert Redford that appead in my in box
I got this because I signed a petition against alaska oil drilling.

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Subject: A message from Robert Redford about the Arctic Refuge


Dear NRDC BioGems Defender,

No one voted on Election Day to destroy the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
But President Bush is now claiming a mandate to do exactly that.

Congressional leaders are pushing for a quick vote that would turn America's
greatest sanctuary for Arctic wildlife into a vast, polluted oil field.

Even worse, they are planning to avoid public debate on this devastating
measure by hiding it in a must-pass budget bill.

Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/arctic/takeaction.asp?ms=RR0501
right now and send a message telling your U.S. senators and representative to
reject this sneak attack on the Arctic Refuge.

And please forward my message to your friends, family and colleagues. We must
mobilize millions of Americans in opposition as quickly as possible.

Don't believe for a second that the president is targeting the Arctic Refuge
for the sake of America's energy security or to lower gas prices at the pump.

President Bush knows full well that oil drilled in the Arctic Refuge would take
ten years to get to market and would never equal more than a paltry one or two
percent of our nation's daily consumption. Simply put, sacrificing the crown
jewel of our wildlife heritage would do nothing to reduce gas prices or break
our addiction to Persian Gulf oil.

But if the raid on the Arctic Refuge isn't really about gas prices or energy
security, then what is it about?

It's the symbolism.

The Arctic Refuge represents everything spectacular and everything endangered
about America's natural heritage. It embodies a million years of ecological
serenity . . . a vast stretch of pristine wilderness . . . an irreplaceable
birthing ground for polar bears, caribou and white wolves.

It is the greatest living reminder that conserving nature in its wild state is
a core American value. It stands for every remnant of wilderness that we, as a
people, have wisely chosen to protect from the relentless march of bulldozers,
chain saws and oil rigs.

And that's why the Bush administration is dead set on destroying it.

By unlocking the Arctic Refuge, they hope to open the door for oil, gas and
coal giants to invade our last and best wild places: our western canyonlands,
our ancient forests, our coastal waters, even our national monuments.

This is the real agenda behind the raid on the Arctic Refuge and the entire
Bush-Cheney energy plan: to transfer our public estate into corporate hands so
it can be liquidated for a quick buck.

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) admitted as much when he said this
battle over the Arctic Refuge is really a fight over whether energy exploration
will be allowed in similarly sensitive areas in the future. "It's about
precedent," Rep. DeLay said.

I take him at his word. If we let the president and Congress plunder the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge for the sake of oil company profits, then no piece of
our natural heritage will be safe from wholesale destruction.

Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/arctic/takeaction.asp?ms=RR0501
and tell your senators and representative they have no mandate to destroy the
Arctic Refuge. Then please be sure to forward this message to as many people as
you can.

And thank you for speaking out at this critical time.

Sincerely,

Robert Redford
Board of Trustees
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

. . .

BioGems: Saving Endangered Wild Places
A project of the Natural Resources Defense Council
http://www.savebiogems.org



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superconnected Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 01:09 PM
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10. they won't have to fight America to take cuba, like they did alaska
Edited on Thu Jan-13-05 01:12 PM by superconnected
it will help the oil giants and defense contractors like haliburton. Isn't giving them profit opportunity the reason for bushco's existence?
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 01:10 PM
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11. Castro must be taking swimming lessons..
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