Ex-CIA Chief: Obama Refused Strikes on ISIS Oil Wells Fearing 'Environmental Damage'

[Vigilante]

Hundreds killed, perhaps thousands, and the fucking moron in the White House is worried about environmental damage... his mind is damaged!

Newsmax ^ | Saturday, 28 Nov 2015 11:15 PM
Former CIA Acting Director Mike Morell says the reason why the Obama administration wouldn't bomb and destroy ISIS oil wells was out of concern about "environmental damage." Discussing President Barack Obama's thinking prior to the Nov. 13 ISIS attacks in Paris, Morell, who served as acting director twice while he was the agency's deputy director, tells interviewer Charlie Rose there's "now a sense of urgency that there wasn't before." ...

 

[irosie91]

not completely illogical

 

[AvgGuyIA]

No more liberal blacks in the presidency with sympathies to Islam.

 

[ABikerSailor]

If you destroy the wells, you can no longer use them.

Much better to take out the infrastructure (like pipelines and tankers) that carry the oil out for shipping.

 

[irosie91]

If you destroy the wells, you can no longer use them.

Much better to take out the infrastructure (like pipelines and tankers) that carry the oil out for shipping.

seems like a good idea to me.

 

[Vigilante]

If you destroy the wells, you can no longer use them.

Much better to take out the infrastructure (like pipelines and tankers) that carry the oil out for shipping.

Do you realize how many HUNDRED wells were destroyed by Saddam and were back in use in short order? But then again, the CRAZY ENVIRONMENTALISTS have killed thousands of U.S. farm jobs in California over a small fish!

 

[irosie91]

If you destroy the wells, you can no longer use them.

Much better to take out the infrastructure (like pipelines and tankers) that carry the oil out for shipping.

Do you realize how many HUNDRED wells were destroyed by Saddam and were back in use in short order? But then again, the CRAZY ENVIRONMENTALISTS have killed thousands of U.S. farm jobs in California over a small fish!

how are they destroyed? the OIL does not get "burned off"??

 

[tinydancer]

This has to be a joke.

 

[Vigilante]

If you destroy the wells, you can no longer use them.

Much better to take out the infrastructure (like pipelines and tankers) that carry the oil out for shipping.

Do you realize how many HUNDRED wells were destroyed by Saddam and were back in use in short order? But then again, the CRAZY ENVIRONMENTALISTS have killed thousands of U.S. farm jobs in California over a small fish!

how are they destroyed? the OIL does not get "burned off"??

The well HARDWARE is destroyed, the fires are put out, and new hardware installed.... Check out...

Iran Asked Red Adair To Extinguish Oil Fires . - Google News
news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat...id...
Google News
Iran asked Red Adair to extinguish oil fires . DALLAS The government of Iran, anxious to repair oil— fields damaged in its war with Iraq, contacted oil ...

 

[irosie91]

This has to be a joke.

so glad you understand it, tiny-------please explain

 

[irosie91]

If you destroy the wells, you can no longer use them.

Much better to take out the infrastructure (like pipelines and tankers) that carry the oil out for shipping.

Do you realize how many HUNDRED wells were destroyed by Saddam and were back in use in short order? But then again, the CRAZY ENVIRONMENTALISTS have killed thousands of U.S. farm jobs in California over a small fish!

how are they destroyed? the OIL does not get "burned off"??

The well HARDWARE is destroyed, the fires are put out, and new hardware installed.... Check out...

Iran Asked Red Adair To Extinguish Oil Fires . - Google News
news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat...id...
Google News
Iran asked Red Adair to extinguish oil fires . DALLAS The government of Iran, anxious to repair oil— fields damaged in its war with Iraq, contacted oil ...

ok WATTA WASTE----I am all for cutting pipelines and bombing the transport

 

[Vigilante]

If you destroy the wells, you can no longer use them.

Much better to take out the infrastructure (like pipelines and tankers) that carry the oil out for shipping.

Do you realize how many HUNDRED wells were destroyed by Saddam and were back in use in short order? But then again, the CRAZY ENVIRONMENTALISTS have killed thousands of U.S. farm jobs in California over a small fish!

how are they destroyed? the OIL does not get "burned off"??

The well HARDWARE is destroyed, the fires are put out, and new hardware installed.... Check out...

Iran Asked Red Adair To Extinguish Oil Fires . - Google News
news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat...id...
Google News
Iran asked Red Adair to extinguish oil fires . DALLAS The government of Iran, anxious to repair oil— fields damaged in its war with Iraq, contacted oil ...

ok WATTA WASTE----I am all for cutting pipelines and bombing the transport

Cut off ISIS money from oil, and watch them collapse.... you don't think their fighters do it for RELIGION ALONE, do you?

 

[irosie91]

If you destroy the wells, you can no longer use them.

Much better to take out the infrastructure (like pipelines and tankers) that carry the oil out for shipping.

Do you realize how many HUNDRED wells were destroyed by Saddam and were back in use in short order? But then again, the CRAZY ENVIRONMENTALISTS have killed thousands of U.S. farm jobs in California over a small fish!

how are they destroyed? the OIL does not get "burned off"??

The well HARDWARE is destroyed, the fires are put out, and new hardware installed.... Check out...

Iran Asked Red Adair To Extinguish Oil Fires . - Google News
news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat...id...
Google News
Iran asked Red Adair to extinguish oil fires . DALLAS The government of Iran, anxious to repair oil— fields damaged in its war with Iraq, contacted oil ...

ok WATTA WASTE----I am all for cutting pipelines and bombing the transport

Cut off ISIS money from oil, and watch them collapse.... you don't think their fighters do it for RELIGION ALONE, do you?

Napoleon did say -----an army marches on its stomach-------and now ISIS has
babies to support---------Jihadi pampers do not come cheap

 

[aaronleland]

Mike Morell retired almost a year before ISIS was a factor in the Middle East, and it doesn't even sound as if he was reflecting on Obama's decisions in a negative light.

 

[Claudette]

not completely illogical

Completely illogical take on things.

Blow up the oil fields and remove the money ISIS is getting by selling the oil. Yes countries buy that oil even though ISIS is selling it.

Common sense 101. Obama has none.

 

[mudwhistle]

Hundreds killed, perhaps thousands, and the fucking moron in the White House is worried about environmental damage... his mind is damaged!

Newsmax ^ | Saturday, 28 Nov 2015 11:15 PM
Former CIA Acting Director Mike Morell says the reason why the Obama administration wouldn't bomb and destroy ISIS oil wells was out of concern about "environmental damage." Discussing President Barack Obama's thinking prior to the Nov. 13 ISIS attacks in Paris, Morell, who served as acting director twice while he was the agency's deputy director, tells interviewer Charlie Rose there's "now a sense of urgency that there wasn't before." ...

I can see that.

He'd be no better than Saddam if he did.

I don't see his rationale, however, when he avoids bombing known ISIS command centers just because he thinks they may have human shields housed there.

 

[waltky]

Ex-CIA Chief: Obama Refused Strikes on ISIS Oil Wells Fearing 'Environmental Damage'

After all the domestic reserves we've opened up...

... he prob'ly savin' it fer the Chinamens.

 

[RodISHI]

If you destroy the wells, you can no longer use them.

Much better to take out the infrastructure (like pipelines and tankers) that carry the oil out for shipping.

Do you realize how many HUNDRED wells were destroyed by Saddam and were back in use in short order? But then again, the CRAZY ENVIRONMENTALISTS have killed thousands of U.S. farm jobs in California over a small fish!

how are they destroyed? the OIL does not get "burned off"??

The well HARDWARE is destroyed, the fires are put out, and new hardware installed.... Check out...

Iran Asked Red Adair To Extinguish Oil Fires . - Google News
news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat...id...
Google News
Iran asked Red Adair to extinguish oil fires . DALLAS The government of Iran, anxious to repair oil— fields damaged in its war with Iraq, contacted oil ...

ok WATTA WASTE----I am all for cutting pipelines and bombing the transport

Cut off ISIS money from oil, and watch them collapse.... you don't think their fighters do it for RELIGION ALONE, do you?

WikiLeaks cables portray Saudi Arabia as a cash machine for terrorists

 

[Care4all]

This is what the Business Insider article says on it.
Here's How ISIS Keeps Selling So Much Oil Even While Being Bombed And Banned By The West - Business Insider

U.S.-led forces want to avoid hitting the oil installations hard because it could hurt civilians more than the militants and could radicalize the local population, analysts say.

On Thursday the United States threatened to impose sanctions on anyone buying oil from Islamic State militants in an effort to disrupt what it said was a $1-million-a-day funding source.

Most of the oil is bought by local traders and covers the domestic needs of rebel-held areas in northern Syria. But some low-quality crude has been smuggled to Turkey where prices of over $350 a barrel, three times the local rate, have nurtured a lucrative cross-border trade.

"Our options are limited unless you hit the wells - but it does not just hit Islamic State, it hits the entire population and that is not something that the U.S. can do very easily," said Andrew Tabler, a senior fellow at the U.S.-based Washington Institute, who focuses on Syria.

 

[mudwhistle]

This is what the Business Insider article says on it.
Here's How ISIS Keeps Selling So Much Oil Even While Being Bombed And Banned By The West - Business Insider

U.S.-led forces want to avoid hitting the oil installations hard because it could hurt civilians more than the militants and could radicalize the local population, analysts say.

On Thursday the United States threatened to impose sanctions on anyone buying oil from Islamic State militants in an effort to disrupt what it said was a $1-million-a-day funding source.

Most of the oil is bought by local traders and covers the domestic needs of rebel-held areas in northern Syria. But some low-quality crude has been smuggled to Turkey where prices of over $350 a barrel, three times the local rate, have nurtured a lucrative cross-border trade.

"Our options are limited unless you hit the wells - but it does not just hit Islamic State, it hits the entire population and that is not something that the U.S. can do very easily," said Andrew Tabler, a senior fellow at the U.S.-based Washington Institute, who focuses on Syria.

Obama hates oil drilled here in America. .....not oil drilled overseas.