Drill, drill, drill !!! This can be done in an environmentally sensitive way. This will create jobs and spur our NC economy. Sue Myrick points out that China is drilling 50 miles off the US coast for oil.
Rep. Sue Myrick is sponsoring a bill to search for oil and natural gas. So far, it has generated both support and opposition. “[The bill] very simply says we will use our own oil and natural gas by drilling off the outer continental shelf,” said Myrick.
A Department of Interior study shows billions of barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas are off the N.C. coast. Under the Deep Ocean Energy Resource Act proposed by Myrick, states could determine whether to allow drilling between 50-200 miles off their coasts.
‘We are the only developed country in the world that does not drill off our coast,” said Myrick, who feels the situation is even worse since China already drills 50 miles away from the Florida coastline. “We can’t do it. China is. China already has our jobs, are we going to give them our oil too?”
General Wesley Clark almost got the US into a Third World War. From the BBC March 9, 2000:
For the first time, the key players in the tense confrontation between NATO and Russian troops talk about the stand-off which jeopardised the entire peacekeeping mission. The Russians, who played a crucial role in persuading Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to end the war, had expected to police their own sector of Kosovo, independent of NATO. When they did not get it, they felt double-crossed.
As Nato’s K-For peacekeepers prepared to enter the province on 12 June, they discovered the Russians had got there first. A contingent of 200 troops, stationed in Bosnia, was already rolling towards Pristina airport.
‘Third World War’
General Wesley Clark, Nato’s supreme commander, immediately ordered 500 British and French paratroopers to be put on standby to occupy the airport. ”I called the [NATO] Secretary General [Javier Solana] and told him what the circumstances were,” General Clark tells the BBC programme Moral Combat: NATO at War. ”He talked about what the risks were and what might happen if the Russian’s got there first, and he said: ‘Of course you have to get to the airport’. ‘I said: ‘Do you consider I have the authority to do so?’ He said: ‘Of course you do, you have transfer of authority’.” But General Clark’s plan was blocked by General Sir Mike Jackson, K-For’s British commander.
“I’m not going to start the Third World War for you,” he reportedly told General Clark during one heated exchange.
General Clark did not stay in his NATO role as long as Commanders before him. He was downsized by Clinton prior to 3 years on the job.
NATO’s General Wesley Clark is the first military leader in our country’s recent history who won a war without receiving a Fifth Avenue parade.
Instead of being lionized, he got just what the rest of the U.S. Army has gotten in the last decade: downsized. The Pentagon’s spin is, “This is a normal rotation, his tour was just shortened.” It was shortened, all right. A review of past NATO skippers shows they had four to five years in the job as opposed to Clark’s less than three.
So what went wrong?
Was it Clark’s apocalyptic order to use NATO forces for blocking Russia’s end run at the Kosovo air base, or his threats to have NATO sea power stop Russian ships from supplying the Serb army with oil? Either act of bad judgement could well have triggered a nuclear war with Russia.
Was it because Clark and his flacks kept crowing about how NATO was destroying the Serb army, when in truth NATO barely laid a glove on its opponent?
Was it because Clark’s $120,000 U.S. Army Mercedes — with a reported highly classified radio system aboard — was car-jacked while his wife used it as a personal vehicle to drive to the golf course?
How can Obama be more ready to command the Armed Forces when he never even wore the uniform? John McCain wore the uniform, enough said. I’m a Veteran myself. Wesley Clark, you are an idiot, a Democrat hack. What about Obama’s good judgment? He didn’t realize his pastor was a racist after 20 years? Please tell me about good judgment.
What was that about gouging at the pump? ExxonMobilis going to sell off all of its retail gas stations. Why? Because they are not profitable.
Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. plans to sell its company-owned gas stations, saying they aren’t profitable enough even with gasoline selling at $4 per gallon.
I was hoping to get my book The Link:The Secret Relationship Between Saddam and al Qaeda released by September/October of 2008, but was told by my literary agent that it will take a year to get it published. I’ll let you know more after I hear from a publisher. I’ll keep you posted!
Do we need to remind Obama that we are in a War on Terror?
From section 2.1 of the September 11 Commission Report:
In February 1998, … Usama Bin Ladin and … Egyptian physician, Ayman al Zawahiri, arranged from their Afghan headquarters for an Arabic newspaper in London to publish what they termed a fatwa issued in the name of a “World Islamic Front.”
What was this fatwa, World Islamic Front?
Three months later, when interviewed in Afghanistan by ABC-TV, Bin Ladin enlarged on these themes. He claimed it was more important for Muslims to kill Americans than to kill other infidels. “It is far better for anyone to kill a single American soldier than to squander his efforts on other activities,” he said. Asked whether he approved of terrorism and of attacks on civilians, he replied:“We believe that the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans. Nothing could stop you except perhaps retaliation in kind. We do not have to differentiate between military or civilian. As far as we are concerned, they are all targets.”
Now you can get to the Veer Right Web blog by the following address http://veerite.com . I’m working on my book about the Saddam Papers, so I haven’t been posting as regularly as I have in the past. The book is due out this Fall. I’ll let you know more in a few weeks.
