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Santorum Warns of Iran Attack on North Dakota
National Review ^ | 2/16/2012 | Charles C. W. Cooke

Posted on 02/16/2012 3:11:03 PM PST by katiedidit1

Rick Santorum made an odd comment in North Dakota on Wednesday. Praising the state for its energy production, he warned his audience that its success in the field might lead to terrorist attacks. CNN reports:

Rick Santorum warned a quiet North Dakota audience Wednesday that their state’s booming oil industry positioned the region as a prime target for terrorism.

“Folks, you’ve got energy here. They’re going to bother you

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; US: North Dakota
KEYWORDS: gaffes; iran; newt2012; santorum; santorumgaffes; whiner; zanysantorum
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To: katiedidit1
<---double face-palm!!!
61 posted on 02/16/2012 3:54:28 PM PST by luvie (Never surrender...don't give up. We WILL take our country back, one vote at a time!)
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To: Liberty Valance

I had to LMAO over that one myself!


62 posted on 02/16/2012 3:55:25 PM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: ari-freedom; All
"But if Newt warns of an EMP attack"

I didn't say that. Why would you suggest I did?

In fact it was the US EMP Commission, founded in 2001 by the US Congress. www.empcommission.org

Of course like Santorum, facts don't matter when emotion drives your mouth.

63 posted on 02/16/2012 3:58:34 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: LowTaxesEqualsProsperity

That’s what RINO’s always say.


64 posted on 02/16/2012 4:01:34 PM PST by donna (I want to live in a Judeo/Christian country where we know that, before God, men & women are equal.)
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To: Mariner
There is no intelligence to support that assertion.

There's enough intelligence and precedent to choke an elephant.

Examining North Africa Terrorist Threat To Energy Infrastructure

Targeting Energy Infrastructure

Terrorist Threats to Enegery Security

New Terror Report Warns of Insider Threat to Utilities

Cyber attacks rise at critical infrastructure firms

For starters...

65 posted on 02/16/2012 4:01:56 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: Mariner
Yes but Obambi's true master .....the international banking cartel and their US proxy, the Fed,...don't like anything.... Anything that cuts into the flow of FRNs out of the US.

When the MSM or the EPA can't sow their seeds of destruction, the big boss Fed sends in the Mad Mullahs!

66 posted on 02/16/2012 4:04:39 PM PST by free from tyranny
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
He has made so many, really moronic statements...

FR is here to reveal the truth of things. One way, is to know that you cannot believe the spin from the media or other non-conservatives.

Another way, is realizing that just because someone disagrees with you, that does not make them evil.

So, list your "many moronic statements", read the sources to see what was really said, and then present the results here for our benefit. Thanks.

67 posted on 02/16/2012 4:05:59 PM PST by donna (I want to live in a Judeo/Christian country where we know that, before God, men & women are equal.)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

A bazaar is a permanent merchandising area, marketplace, or street of shops where goods and services are exchanged or sold.


68 posted on 02/16/2012 4:08:00 PM PST by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Perhaps you should read your own "intelligence".

Not a single mention of US Oil Production Facilities.

Who, besides you and Santorum see that as a threat?

Now, had he been in Houston speaking on the threat to that PORT and all it's storage/refineries...he'd have something.

But a shale field in North Dakota? Laughable at best.

69 posted on 02/16/2012 4:09:07 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

And you are demonstrating just how stupid you are. On 9/11 the jihadists attacked the symbols of America. The Towers, the Pentagon and an attempt on th White House. If they wanted body counts they could have attacked much softer targets with thousands of people. America can sleep well tonight knowing you have no part in security.


70 posted on 02/16/2012 4:09:07 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: Mariner
The Gaza pipeline is not North Dakota.

Sorry, we're not arguing logic. You're arguing against a politician.

Of course they would hit a pipeline stateside if it serves their purpose. To pretend we know exactly what they're limited to, or where they will and where they won't do something, is too foolish for words. They were hijacking and blowing up planes in other parts of the world before they got around to doing it here, too.

71 posted on 02/16/2012 4:10:00 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: basil
They have found a huge new oil field there.

Just to nitpick over a meaningless detail...

The didn't find a new one, they figured out how to really produce one discovered many decades ago.

Steerable Horizontal drilling combined with hydraulic fracturing made the difference. The reason this is important, we are seeing significant improvements in several different plays in several locations around the country.

72 posted on 02/16/2012 4:10:30 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

Dear Lord! The GOP’s answer to Joe Biden!


73 posted on 02/16/2012 4:10:59 PM PST by conservativejoy
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To: katiedidit1; onyx; All

I’m a Newt supporter, however Santorum is absolutely right about this, energy producing states, especially rural states with lower populations and a higher ratio of law enforcement to that population (meaning fewer officers per 1000 citizens for example) means that terrorists, specifically Iranian terrorist cells very likely have such states and energy producing facilities already on their list of possible targets.

To criticize and condemn Santorum for stating what is a real possibility is not only short sighted, it’s stupid as Hell. The argument about “don’t give the enemy ideas” doesn’t wash because you can bet the rent they came up with the idea a long time ago. Iran has been our enemy since 1978 and they’ve had lots of time to scope out potential U.S. targets both here in this hemisphere and throughout the world.

Our choices come down to four candidates at this point, two of which (Mitt-Witt and Ron “Bradley Manning Is A Patriot” Paul, both of which are (or should be) totally unacceptable to ANY thinking conservative.

That leaves Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum as the conservative alternative to Romney or Paul. I could vote for either one of those gentlemen with a clear conscience, and I think the sniping at either of them should cease right now.


74 posted on 02/16/2012 4:12:09 PM PST by mkjessup (Let's do to Mitt what his Irish Setter did to him while tied to the roof rack of his station wagon!)
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To: jwalsh07; Admin Moderator; Jim Robinson
"And you are demonstrating just how stupid you are."

Unlike you I served my country in a "security" capacity for a very, very long time and gained several rows of ribbons doing it. It's something I know quite a bit about.

Now take it back.

You're emerging as a disgrace to this revered forum.

75 posted on 02/16/2012 4:14:31 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: thackney

Common Thack, play with this one a bit. To whomever it is, they are serious and have probably just discovered this amazing news themself for the very first time.......get it? Santorum supporter.........


76 posted on 02/16/2012 4:15:44 PM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

I’ll say this. If the gen pub knew the things that have been discovered near pipelines hat have never made the papers, they would not be so quick to mock Santorum’s statement.

It is horrifying and a miracle that none have gone poof so far.


77 posted on 02/16/2012 4:16:28 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Normie: Wandering Druid, Cult of Palin)
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To: PapaBear3625
There are thousands of miles of pipeline (oil and gas)

Just to expand on that, make it hundreds of thousands of miles of pipeline (oil and gas)

http://www.pipeline101.com/Overview/energy-pl.html


78 posted on 02/16/2012 4:17:52 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: katiedidit1

It is a lead pipe cinch that the terrorists will attack the North Dakota oil fields, and it remains to be seen if they will be successful.

But they’ll use lawyers.


79 posted on 02/16/2012 4:19:07 PM PST by marron
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To: Girlene

The people blasting Santorum want Mitt Romney to win.

It is a simple thing.


80 posted on 02/16/2012 4:19:39 PM PST by dforest
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