Libya is on fire, literally.

[herding cats]

Libya oil-tanker fire blazes out of control
"Environmental disaster" feared after rocket lights second oil depot on fire in Tripoli amid militia clashes.

A fire from fuel tanks near Tripoli's international airport that has been ignited by rocket attacks is out of control as clashes between rival militias have resumed in the area, the National Oil Company says.

Six million litres of fuel were set ablaze by a rocket late on Sunday, with the second depot hit on Monday.

"It is out of control. The second tank has been hit and the firefighters have withdrawn from the site as the fighting has resumed in the area", National Oil Company spokesman Mohamed Al-Harrai told Reuters on Monday.

"The situation is very dangerous after a second fire broke out at another petroleum depot," the government said, warning of a "disaster with unforeseeable consequences".

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/07/libya-seeks-help-battle-oil-tanker-blaze-201472884020151782.html

[sabrina 1]

1. Yay NATO! Well, this was predictable after NATO decided on regime change in yet another

oil producing country, under the pretext of 'protecting civilians' and installing 'democracy'.

Except NATO left those unfortunate civilians to try to defend themselves from NATO's allies, the roving gangs of western armed 'freedom fighters' killing and torturing and robbing Libyans and sub-Saharan Africans, once they thought they had control of the Oil.

Been following Libya since our 'fight to bring democracy' there. Another tragic victim of Western intervention for oil.

The US has removed its Embassy personnel as Libya descends, like that other 'democracy' we created in Iraq, into chaos.

But then that was the goal of the neocons, wasn't it, to 'turn the ME, and part of Africa also, into a parking lot'. Michael Ledeen must be laughing.

[malaise]

2. Ding ding we have a winner

They were warned.

[sabrina 1]

3. And those of us who opposed that brutal invasion by NATO were attacked for predicting the

inevitable outcome. As if we had not seen it before. We're not very good at 'creating democracies'. We tend to put puppets, like Maliki in Iraq eg, in power, dictators who are willing to brutalize their own people.

I wish it had turned out differently for the Libyan people but there was no way it could have resulted in anything other than this.

Sadly this is how all of our foreign interventions end up for the innocent victims who happen to live where 'we have interests'. Same thing is happening in Ukr right now, and like Libya those of us who insist on stating facts, will be attacked, as we were on Iraq and Afghanistan, told what beautiful democracies we were opposed to. So I don't really care. It's enough that our Corporate Media lies but we at least on Democratic forums, don't have to.

[elehhhhna]

9. s long as countries have national oil companies, we will have to

install friendly despots in order to get our way.

I wonder how many countries we've intervened in that have/had NOC's? Versus countries without NOC's and oil reserves?

[AngryAmish]

4. Samantha Power demanded we get involved in Libya

She got her way. And she got a promotion.

Can we please get that shithead out of our government?

[sabrina 1]

7. She's a neocon warmonger and a disaster for this country. The fact she got a promotion for that

horrendous, brutal destruction of yet another nation, says a lot. It means that we have to wonder, who can we elect to END THESE policies? I thought we did that, we thought we threw them out, the war mongers, but we didn't. So what now?

[AngryAmish]

8. So what now? Let's just keep talking about a dirty book.

[elehhhhna]

10. time to earn that peace prize

[KamaAina]

5. Benghazi! Benghazi! Benghazi!

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[skippy66]

6. Stay on message

It's bush's fault!