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Thanks for those links. What you said is true, the oil factor is a factor. It's scaring the White House as well as Number 10 into down playing the expanding Iranian & Syrian threats which are being promoted by Moscow pumping both terrorist instigating dictatorships with weapons, 'advisers' and in Tehran's case, more 'nuclear fuel' being supplied .

With crude oil hovering at $80 a barrel, coupled with a very nervous energy market, a full scale expansion of the current war against Jihad Inc (Iraq/Afghanistan) involving Syria, Iran, Hamas, Hezballah - and the wild card, the Russians, against US , Israel, the UK and the remaining allies in Iraq, oil would surely double on panic trading, especially once the Iranians (unless prevented) began targeting missile attacks into Saudi Arabia, coupled with major disruptions of oil shipments exiting from the Persian Gulf all of which shall compound the subprime/banking/credit problems, which in the UK are becoming worse.

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The risk of continuing non-action is the Iranians get workable nukes, share them with Syria (which seems to be under way already via N.Korea or the Russians) and then there is a far more frightening geostrategic nightmare and global economic quagmire

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