just wanted to point out that obama ( and hillary as well) has also publicly stated on many occassions the same considerations as his opponent conserning iran and its possible invasion, he is just much a political rat as any other politician

in fact quite recently obama has propossed in a serious of one up man ship the will to go to even further extremes as he attempts to look more hawkish for the center in the ussual political flip flop,

though i think many are looking in the wrong direction, it is pakistan that has just had the US fire missiles into it a couple days ago and a running fire-fight accross its boarder with afganistan

i belive iran will do as N.korea and that the iranian president is in fact mostly saber ratteling to apease the totalitarian religious leadership, he consetantly shouts out such things publically and then reaches under the table with an open hand to apeal for diplomacy, just like Korea did through China with the west, (btw national geographic has an excellent article on Iran this month).

i would also like to point out that if america really gave a shit about afganistans mines, it wouldnt have pulled all its finacial support aftering defeating the soviets from the US backed Afgan resistance to its occupation back in 89

why didnt the US move right in and take the mines etc? because it didnt care about the mines, it only gave a toot about f ing the soviets up.

as for iran blocking the strait they may try but i dont see them not learning from suddams mistake where as US military might is conserned, a few small pt boats isnt going to stop a fully armed carrier group.

the real reson the price of oil keeps going up is because its running out, plain and simple, any other excusess made by the gov or the oil companies is just an obsfucation

why else has no one bothered to build any more refineries? could it be that the oil companies analysts have determined that an oil refinery that doesnt have any oil to refine in the next thrirty years isnt cost effective?