Iraq the last 24 hours

[Botany]

One of the 2 major oil pipelines have been blown up,
the Green Zone has been hit again, and in the south
Shi forces loyal to Sadr are in open conflict w/ Shi
troops loyal to Maliki. And as of 3/19 we are starting
year # 6 in Iraq.

But still that unelected idiot keeps talking about progress,
democracy, and other b.s..


http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/03/27/iraq.main/?iref=hpmostpop

Iraq's offensive against what it characterizes as "outlaws" of hard-line Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia began Tuesday in Basra, Iraq's second largest city.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who has been overseeing the operation in southern Iraq, has given militants an ultimatum to surrender their weapons by Saturday.

The fighting, which also saw Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone -- home to the U.S. Embassy and the Iraqi government -- come under fire, has threatened to unravel a delicate al-Sadr cease-fire credited with reducing bloodshed between Sunnis and Shiites.

Since Tuesday, clashes in Basra and throughout Iraq's Shiite heartland have left more than 100 dead and many wounded in Basra, Baghdad, Hilla, Kut, Karbala and Diwaniya.

snip

A provincial council official also said insurgents sabotaged an oil pipeline Thursday in Zubeir, a town near Basra. The attack sparked a large fire on the pipeline, which transfers crude oil to tanks in the city.

Meanwhile, the FBI identified the remains of two U.S. contractors who had been missing in Iraq for more than a year, a bureau spokesman said Thursday.

[babylonsister]

1. You couldn't have paid me to sit in that audience and applaud

while he spewed his lies. It's so frustrating to hear a prez tell bald-faced lies to our faces, expecting we'll accept what he says without question. I should be used to it, but I'm not. :grr:

[EnviroBat]

2. God, I wish some nutso would throw shit at him...

[bdamomma]

3. if the oil pipelines are involved Cheney and * are probably going

BS, again they care more about that oil than the lives of our troops and the Iraqi people.