[highlander]

"Excavators have struck three oil fields with reserves estimated at about 2 billion barrels, Kurdish region’s Oil Minister Ashti Horami said. The discovery is a signal that the region, currently including three provinces, is rich in oil reserves. The find is tempting for foreign oil firms which are vying to win deals to develop oil fields in the region. "



I have this image of track-hoes running around in Northern Iraq looking for WMD's and finding a new oil field. Were it so easy!

[jasonraymondson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('highlander', '"')Excavators have struck three oil fields with reserves estimated at about 2 billion barrels, Kurdish region’s Oil Minister Ashti Horami said. The discovery is a signal that the region, currently including three provinces, is rich in oil reserves. The find is tempting for foreign oil firms which are vying to win deals to develop oil fields in the region. "



I have this image of track-hoes running around in Northern Iraq looking for WMD's and finding a new oil field. Were it so easy!

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', '
')400 million gallons per day used in the US
9523809 Barrels
About 210 days of oil for the US.

Lets kill the fuckers

[3aidlillahi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'w')ow 2 billion. gosh that will last the world... 1 month?

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('3aidlillahi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'w')ow 2 billion. gosh that will last the world... 1 month?

[misterno]

Those lands did not even belong to them, it was just handed to them by @#$%ing Winston Churchill as a part of divide and conquer policy after the collapse of Ottoman Empire.

Winston @#$%ing Churchill got a ruler in his hand divide the middle east with a pencil and here you go, you got 15 countries in a small region with 15 different nationalities, 100 tribes 20 religions.

There was no war, no bloodshed for 621 years during the rule of Ottomans, not even one. Now everyday is a war.

Fuck Winston Churchill and his .ucked up foreign policy. God, I hate him so much.

[jasonraymondson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('3aidlillahi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'w')ow 2 billion. gosh that will last the world... 1 month?

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('3aidlillahi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'w')ow 2 billion. gosh that will last the world... 1 month?

[3aidlillahi]

Delete.

[Denny]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('misterno', 'T')hose lands did not even belong to them, it was just handed to them by @#$%ing Winston Churchill as a part of divide and conquer policy after the collapse of Ottoman Empire.

Winston @#$%ing Churchill got a ruler in his hand divide the middle east with a pencil and here you go, you got 15 countries in a small region with 15 different nationalities, 100 tribes 20 religions.

There was no war, no bloodshed for 621 years during the rule of Ottomans, not even one. Now everyday is a war.

Fuck Winston Churchill and his .ucked up foreign policy. God, I hate him so much.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('misterno', '
')There was no war, no bloodshed for 621 years during the rule of Ottomans, not even one. Now everyday is a war.

[The_Virginian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('misterno', 'T')hose lands did not even belong to them, it was just handed to them by @#$%ing Winston Churchill as a part of divide and conquer policy after the collapse of Ottoman Empire.

Winston @#$%ing Churchill got a ruler in his hand divide the middle east with a pencil and here you go, you got 15 countries in a small region with 15 different nationalities, 100 tribes 20 religions.

There was no war, no bloodshed for 621 years during the rule of Ottomans, not even one. Now everyday is a war.

Fuck Winston Churchill and his .ucked up foreign policy. God, I hate him so much.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('misterno', 'T')hose lands did not even belong to them, it was just handed to them by @#$%ing Winston Churchill as a part of divide and conquer policy after the collapse of Ottoman Empire.

Winston @#$%ing Churchill got a ruler in his hand divide the middle east with a pencil and here you go, you got 15 countries in a small region with 15 different nationalities, 100 tribes 20 religions.

There was no war, no bloodshed for 621 years during the rule of Ottomans, not even one. Now everyday is a war.

Fuck Winston Churchill and his .ucked up foreign policy. God, I hate him so much.

[DomusAlbion]

I guess we'll have to call you Misterno the Turk from now on.

Remember that before the Great (or not so great) Ottoman Empire there existed the even greater Roman Empire in that same region.

So time passes, empires fall and on and on we go ...

Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks

or is it?

[Chuckmak]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('misterno', 'T')hose lands did not even belong to them, it was just handed to them by @#$%ing Winston Churchill as a part of divide and conquer policy after the collapse of Ottoman Empire.

Winston @#$%ing Churchill got a ruler in his hand divide the middle east with a pencil and here you go, you got 15 countries in a small region with 15 different nationalities, 100 tribes 20 religions.

There was no war, no bloodshed for 621 years during the rule of Ottomans, not even one. Now everyday is a war.

Fuck Winston Churchill and his .ucked up foreign policy. God, I hate him so much.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('misterno', 'T')hose lands did not even belong to them, it was just handed to them by @#$%ing Winston Churchill as a part of divide and conquer policy after the collapse of Ottoman Empire.

Winston @#$%ing Churchill got a ruler in his hand divide the middle east with a pencil and here you go, you got 15 countries in a small region with 15 different nationalities, 100 tribes 20 religions.

There was no war, no bloodshed for 621 years during the rule of Ottomans, not even one. Now everyday is a war.

Fuck Winston Churchill and his .ucked up foreign policy. God, I hate him so much.

[DomusAlbion]

Pretorian said:

"Poor, poor Turkeys!" Gobble Gobble.

"However even though they were brutally sodomized , they were left with a good bunch of other people's land. About 90% of a modern day Turkey belongs to Greece, Bulgaria, Armenia and others."

To be fair to the Turks they took the land fair and square by conquest. Might really does make right in the history of the world.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DomusAlbion', '
')To be fair to the Turks they took the land fair and square by conquest. Might really does make right in the history of the world.

[DomusAlbion]

Agreed. I'd like to see them give back Constantinople and the rest of Europe that they currently occupy. It should go back to the Greeks and the Bulgarians.

But that's what wars are make of.