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What are these clowns up to? April 24, 2012 2:35 pm bowser

http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/24/11374406-fbi-chief-in-yemen-where-drone-recently-killed-top-al-qaida-member?lite

“FBI director Robert Mueller visited Yemen on Tuesday, pledging to help quell an Islamist insurgency there, as security and government sources said a U.S. drone had killed a prominent al-Qaida leader linked to an attack on a French oil tanker.

“In a meeting with President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who took office earlier this year, Mueller promised that the United States would continue to support Yemen “with full force” in all respects.”

I know the old rule of the FBI operating out of the country has been stomped on, trashed and violated so much it no longer exists.  But since when can the Director of the FBI commit the US to a foreign war?  Who wants to go to war over Yemen?  Why shouldn’t the oil companies pay to keep their shipping lanes open?

Let’s be serious.  The only explanation for this is that the oil companies own the US government.  Both parties.

This is flat ridiculous.  The US should just shovel oil companies money and let them guard their own ships.  After all, most of them are going somewhere else.

  • My problem with all this "strategy" crap is that the end goal is always more power for the US. ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-04-24 16:14:13
    • The problem is, the choice "nobody controls the seas" isn't available. by TB 2012-04-24 16:40:58
      • Would anyone here support a UN option? by VelociraptorBlade 2012-04-25 09:41:41
        • The goal of the US would be to create as much of a puppet government as possible. A very ... by bowser 2012-04-25 11:21:57
          • Answering for myself: No. by TB 2012-04-25 09:54:56
            • The US lost it's leadership position on Human Rights during the Bush Administration. The US tortured routinely and just ... by bowser 2012-04-25 11:28:06
              • Then why doesn't a good "progressive" treat the U.N. like it treats Bush? by TB 2012-04-25 11:39:49
                • "these would be the same “progressives” that spent the entire Cold War worshiping the ground the Soviet Union and its ... by bowser 2012-04-25 12:25:35
                  • Paranoia? by TB 2012-04-25 13:06:09
                    • Rabid paranoia. You'd do well to listen. To call all who protest Bush's abuses of human rights people ... by bowser 2012-04-25 13:34:31
                      • I note the "crimes" don't get much press nowadays. by TB 2012-04-25 16:05:42
                        • Oh, my. I call BS. I call it loud, and long. BS. You're too young to remember Joseph ... by bowser 2012-04-26 00:35:39
                          • By the way, McCarthy did his bit in 1950. How old are you? by TB 2012-04-26 16:55:07
                            • 71. And I read the local newspapers from cover to cover from the time I was 9. At ... by bowser 2012-04-26 18:48:24
                            • I know how the Left uses McCarthy, Bowser. by TB 2012-04-26 16:49:13
                              • "Stalinism". Mean anything? "McCarthyism" does too. For a long time it's seemed as if some people stick ... by bowser 2012-04-26 18:41:47
                                • Repeatedly insulting me doesn't change anything. by TB 2012-04-26 19:43:07
                                  • P.S. by TB 2012-04-26 19:45:01
        • Yemen doesn't have any oil, does it? by ER 2012-04-24 15:24:14
          • They control one of the transportation choke points into the Red Sea. by TB 2012-04-24 15:39:04
            • They also border the Saudis. by ER 2012-04-24 16:47:37
          • Good point. When did the FBI suddenly become globetrotters? by TB 2012-04-24 15:17:40

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