Iraq Power Outage (across the much of the country)

[Barrett808]

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) _ Electricity is out across a wide region of Iraq after a fire broke out in a power plant north of Baghdad.

The capital went dark in the late afternoon, and power was still out three hours later. The only lights are in the Green Zone and the few other place with their own generators.

Witnesses in several other parts of the country -- including Basra to the south and Najaf to the southwest -- also are reporting blackouts.

Iraq's prime minister says the fire was apparently an accident. But he also tells a T-V call-in show that militants have been attacking Iraq's infrastructure and other targets that only hurt civilians.

He reports the fire has been put out, and power is gradually being restored.

http://www.kfor.com/Global/story.asp?S=2681800

[YDogg]

1. Dang ...

... freedom fighters. I mean terra-ists.

[VivaKerry]

2. Halliburton has done such a great job rebuilding!!

NOT!

[NuttyFluffers]

3. y'know, if freedom kept marching around like this...

one could almost get tired of freedom.

Bush & Co. "Giving freedom a bad name for generations."

[Rose Siding]

4. Freedom's wearing some cruel shoes

...Great big old steel-toed orthopedics. on feet of clay

[NuttyFluffers]

8. either that or some vicious high heels

leather, knee-high stilettos with cleats.

[TahitiNut]

5. "The only lights are in the Green Zone"

Ya really gotta love the kinda 'democratization' where the foreign invaders take care of themselves, screw the 'common' folk, and keep dropping bombs on cities.

[Caledonia]

6. Hmmm...

I wonder what the Iraqi TV Channels were showing tonight?

[leftchick]

7. "freedom isn't free"

No gas, no electricity, no jobs, no money, no security......
ain't democracy grand?

[Barrett808]

9. Guess we won't be hearing from Riverbend for awhile. n/t

[UpInArms]

10. mushroom therapy?

keep 'em in the dark and feed 'em shit