Second blaze hits crucial Iraq oil export pipeline

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L17587291.htm

<snip>A North Oil Company official at the scene of the fire said it was caused by a blast on Saturday night. The fire was near the site of a blaze which erupted on Friday and which officials said had been caused by a bomb.

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[joeybee12]

1. Now boys and girls, repeat after me: "Quagmire."

Seen Doonesbury today? Pretty damn funny.

[kutastha]

2. Yes it was

http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/

[Jacobin]

3. What's this??? Iraqis don't want the country which invaded them and

conquered them and occupies them to steal their oil????

My gawd, how could this be?

Who could ever have anticipated such a reaction???

I Just don't understand it!!!

[spanone]

4. I believe this is just the beginning.

This will hit bush where it hurts.

[tsipple]

5. What's the Problem with Handing it to the UN?

And paying the U.N. for the "privilege"? Neo-con political face-saving? Is that all?

[htuttle]

9. Bush and his cronies don't want to give up any of the loot

Here's their reasoning from a recent article:

France and Russia are among other major countries in the forefront of the demand for a larger UN role in Iraq.

The Bush administration, however, is said to have reached a consensus that it would be better to work with countries that are already cooperating instead of involving the UN or other countries that opposed the war but are “eager to exercise influence in a post-war Iraq”.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_339568,0005.htm

Read 'exercise influence' as assigning corporate contracts. They've already handed out the big ones to Bush 'pioneers' and cohorts (without a bidding process, in many cases). They won't allow them to be negotiated again by the UN in a fair bidding process.

That, and they are incapable of admitting they made a mistake.

[Old and In the Way]

6. Makes you wonder about the the brilliant planners in PNAC.

Maybe this is why we have a Congress who should be debating and setting our foreign policy, instead of a few criminals? The problem with PNAC is that they are just a little echo chamber....a mini-FreeRepublic with Brooks Brothers suits and limo's. The problem is that they believed their own bullshit...maybe if there was a debate on the wisdom of pre-emptive war for a New American Century, we could have pointed out that other countries might not share their worldview.

I mean, this board predicted everything that has happened in Iraq. I can't tell you how many threads I read that warned that these kind of sabotauge would occur...

So, if we can gain oil revenue, this is a straight line drain on our Treasury. The PNACer's may have had a dream of world domination, but their dream is our nightmare as they hasten the end of US influence in the world today.

When are the American people going to ake up and hold these treasonous bastards accountable for the destruction of our country?

[samsingh]

7. i don't know how they can protect

an oil pipeline in that much hostile territory

- i guess they didn't think it through.

[alcuno]

8. Lots of bang for the buck.

It's sick, but they may realize that the pipelines are of more value to the US government than the soldiers.