This is good news and I've read the Iraqis are projecting 3.0 million BPD by year end.
Shahristani crdits the improved security situation in Iraq and at the same time claims the US surge has nothing to do with the increased flow. Hmmm.
The security force protecting the pipeline into Turkey is a Kurd Peshmerga brigade. Probably the best of the Iraqi forces.
They could not resist tearing into the US to end their stupid article. Yeah sure it has nothing to do with the US forces. Unbelievable. Whatever their weak pride needs I suppose. Meanwhile the US military won a spectacular victory over the jihadi, so decisively, one of the top iman in Eqypt recently wrote a treatise imploring jihad idiots to give up. Precisely what the world needs. Islamic pride erupts like herpes every few decades and needs a strong treatment to get it back under control. Bush and our military stood up in the tradition of T. Roosevelt, W. Churchill and other grand western leaders.
I think it’s time for the shorts to squeeze the longs in the oil markets. An extra million barrels a day by early next year would be a major dent. That’s almost $100 million per day at current market prices. Say Iraq’s cut at the well head is $40 million a day X 365 days that’s $14,600,000,000 or about $550 per man woman and child, a nice jump in that part of the world.
I think that is a positive comment. We all know that indirectly the surge helped this, but I am all for their self-determination.
The tribal leaders quit believing the American Democrat leaders. There was not going to be an American desetrtion.