PHOTOS: today in Iraq, bush* OIL GRAB failing everywhere.....oil burning.

[diamond14]

IRAQ: a massive bush* catastrophy on many levels: human destruction, economic and political destruction....this is also an ENVIRONMENTAL horror show....the LUNGS of OUR Soldiers and the Iraqi people are TOTALLY DESTROYED by air pollution EVERYWHERE....plus, the additional oil into the surface water, ground water, and soils....causing cancers, birth defects, DNA mutations, lung destruction and death everywhere...poisoned by oil....



Locals look on at a burning pipeline after saboteurs attacked the oil pipeline in northern Iraq (news - web sites) near Beerat village in al-Fatha district, about 15 kilometers (10 miles) north of the city of Beiji in Iraq Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2005. (AP Photo/Bassem Daham)



An Iraqi boy watches a burning oil pipeline in the city of Baiji north of Baghdad, February 16, 2005. An explosion hit an oil pipeline east of the refinery city of Baiji on Wednesday, causing a large blaze and sending thick clouds of black smoke over the city. An Iraqi oil official confirmed on Wednesday that the country's oil export pipeline to Turkey was hit by sabotage on Tuesday night and said flows were expected to resume early next week. REUTERS/Sabah Hamid







Men watch a giant fire after insurgent attacks on oil and gas infrastructure near the northern Iraqi town of Kirkuk.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)





A frame grab taken from a video tape released by insurgents February 16, 2005, shows Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian journalist kidnapped in Iraq begging for her life and appealing for foreign troops to withdraw from Iraq. 'I beg you, put an end to the occupation. I beg the Italian government and the Italian people to put pressure on the government to pull out,' she said on the undated tape, holding her hands in front of her in supplication. REUTERS/Handout



Onlookers start running at the sound of U.S. soldiers shooting in the air to disperse them, as an unidentified man lies dying on the ground, seconds after being shot by gunmen shouting 'American spy' in Ramadi, an insurgent stronghold 113 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2005. The man was evacuated to hospital, but later died. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. "let freedom reign!"

I wish bush & cheney would spend a little "quality time" in Iraq.

[Roland99]

4. You'd think Bush would want to meet the new puppets in person

Now that Saddam is behind bars, Iraq is a Garden of Eden!

[SpiralHawk]

12. "Mission Accomplished" - George W. Bush*

* Titan of the Texas Air National Guard, Plutocratic Prince of the Imperial Pig Farm Upon Crawford, and Eddie Haskel Supremo clown-clone of the White House.

[Jokinomx]

2. Words are inadequate to describe my feelings..

I guess your post could be labeled ... "News you won't hear or see from the U.S. media".

It is a very depressing time for mankind. :-(

[skylarmae]

5. I'm with you on this - it seems that nowadays we are getting

less and less and less info on Iraq each day. The worse it gets the less we are told. The families of our fighting men and women must really be worrying all the time now. Hope the men in the field are sending e-mails home regularly!

[diamond14]

7. as the CNN CEO reported: American Soldiers are KILLING all the reporters

nobody wants to talk about that...but there has been a HUGE number of reporters KILLED in Iraq (and 'who benefits?' is a very good question)......that's why I added the PHOTO of the kidnapped Italian reporter begging for her life.....

there are very few REAL journalists left in Iraq....the ONLY news coming out of Iraq is now 'sanitized by the pentagoon....


BEAUTIFUL PUBLIC RELATIONS PHOTOS...candy for the Iraqi kids....how sweet !


Iraqi children scramble for candies thrown by a member of the U.S. Marines in a village in Al Anbar province west of Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites) January 31, 2005. REUTERS/Erik de Castro




A British soldier from the Welsh Guards hands out candy to eager children during a patrol near the Glory Canal in the marshlands of southeast Iraq, 50 kms (30 miles) south of Amara, February 7, 2005. The Marsh Arabs have made their home on the reedy marshlands at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrades rivers for around 5,000 years. After they joined an uprising against Saddam Hussein in 1991, the former president began draining the marshes of water, forcing the Marsh Arabs from their ancestral homeland and creating desert. Picture taken February 7, 2005. REUTERS/Bob Strong

[wtmusic]

9. Here kid...I aced your Dad but take these Milk Duds

and everything'll be OK... :grr:

[skids]

3. It isn't the oil they are after.

But rather control of the oil. It is more about who will not allowed to get it, than it is about the US getting it.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/ENG408A.html

[wtmusic]

6. No, they are after the oil

from your own link:

"Cheney ended on an alarming note: 'That means by 2010 we will need on the order of an additional fifty million barrels a day.' This is equivalent to more than six Saudi Arabia's of today's size."

He wanted the oil. He wanted the profits for his buds. All there is to it.

[skids]

8. Eventually, yes.

They want it by the time the US needs it. Lock it up in Iraq to take it off the market, continue to buy from the rest of the world's suppliers to deplete that supply, and you decimate the economies of the nations competing with you for it. Meanwhile you have the national reserves and whatever you can get out of Iraq to provide the US with the only pillow to fall on.

The failure to get the pipelines running in Iraq is only a partial failure. It may cost them in some terms, if they got greedy, which they probably did, and promised some business partners immediate profits which they cannot deliver on. But they are used to breaking promises.

[radwriter0555]

11. that's precisely correct.

exactly right.

[radwriter0555]

10. They're after keeping the oil FROM the market to keep profits

high.

After all, perfect crude isn't as profitable for everyone as that which has to be refined.

[donheld]

13. We'll be greeted with flowers and candy

We'll be viewed as liberators. Yea right.

[flyarm]

14. accountable...

we may not be able to get * and hold him accountable..but god sure will..and may he rot in hell!

and all those who supported * !!!!

fly

[indepat]

15. The American people, in numbers too large to fathom, have ratified

all this: all this is a.o.k. with all those to profess to love Jesus but support all this and all else.

[Redleg]

16. That election really did improve things in Iraq...

... it improved the chances that the country will continue to slip into chaos and civil war.

[leftchick]

17. A River of Oil...

Iraqi soldiers and locals look on at a river of oil after saboteurs attacked an oil pipeline in northern Iraq (news - web sites) near Beerat village in al-Fatha district, about 15 kilometers (10 miles) north of the city of Beiji in Iraq Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2005. (AP Photo/Bassem Daham)

[diamond14]

18. flowing right into DRINKING WATER SUPPLIES, ground water

for wells, water treatment systems totally inadequate to remove it....loaded with BENZENE, and other carcinogenic, teratogenic and mutagenic chemicals, with heavy metals too....

want arsenic and radionuclides with your benzene-contaminated tap water???