I will believe the Saudis don't see any upcoming problems with Ghawar when they cancel one of their projects due to low oil prices. If they continue to be full steam ahead with increasing their capacity then I think they are aware that Ghawar may not be as robust in 5 years time as they would like us to believe.
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:08 pm Post subject: Rice: US still puts conditions on talks with Iran (ARgh)
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Rice: US still puts conditions on talks with Iran
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that the United States still has conditions for negotiating with Iran even though the Bush administration is sending a senior diplomat to weekend talks with an Iranian nuclear envoy.
She said the shift in policy is a signal the administration is serious about diplomacy, but does not mean Washington is ready for open-ended discussions with Iran. Such talks can only occur after Tehran halts activities that could lead to development of atomic weapons.
Rice spoke a day before the State Department's third-ranking diplomat, William Burns, is to attend a meeting in Switzerland with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili. The US previously has shunned such gatherings, demanding that Iran first suspend its enrichment and reprocessing of uranium.
"It should be very clear to everyone that the United States has a condition for the beginning of negotiations with Iran, and that condition remains the verifiable suspension of Iran's enrichment and reprocessing activities," she told reporters at the State Department. "That remains the U.S. position and it will continue to be the U.S. position."
The move initially is to trick Iran to believe that America had finally gave in and send Burns to negotiate DIRECTLY with Iran's envoy but in reality Burn's role is just only to listen and not to talk to Iran directly until Iran satisfy the "condition" of halting the nuclear enrichment.
This means it's back to square ONE...Iran had previously rejected multiple times to halt their enrichment and suffered multiple sanctions from the six world power and had mentioned that they will no longer accept such condescending talks with the "precondition" before negotiation.
The end result of this publicity stunt is that the world including Iran are tricked into a "positive outlook" into today's meeting at Geneva including Turkey Prime Minister and hope for a "wonderful" out come...
If today's meeting end up with another sanction (which will be the most severe one...may include blocking or inspecting all oil exports/imports from Iran) that might represent a "declaration" of war as Iran will face maximum destruction in their oil based economy.
Any military movement from Iran (few army trucks with ICBM move one inch on satellite photo) may give USA a chance to "beat the war drum" and allow Israel to a immediate "preemptive" strike on Iran....
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 4:26 pm Post subject: Re: Rice: US still puts conditions on talks with Iran (ARgh)
John Quincy Adams wisely observed that....America goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.
Obviously, Mr. Adams lived in an era before America's foreign policy was crafted in Tel Aviv and delivered by AIPAC.
Lest we forget.... Here's a photographic memory of the USS Liberty after our stalwart ally, Israel... Attacked our naval vessel without warning or provocation.
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:27 pm Post subject: Re: Rice: US still puts conditions on talks with Iran (ARgh)
Plantagenet wrote:
Don't worry.
Just six more months to go until Sen. Obama is president. He's already promised to negotiate with Ahmadinejad without any preconditions.
Hmmm...................................
At least Iran has never attacked an American Naval Vessel with the intent of murdering all on board.
Don't know anything about this Plantagenet? Read up from American eyewitnesses:
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