Breaking on GEM$NBC - State Department has ordered all

[malaise]

US workers to stay inside reinforced structures in the Green Zone after two Americans were killed.

If this Embassy were anywhere else, people would be sent home.

McSameasBush has some 'splaining to do!!!

[havocmom]

1. Is it me or does this crap happen shortly after cheney visits?

[malaise]

4. All rational people notice this, but you won't hear a word

on M$M :D

[saigon68]

7. "Bring Em On" shouted the AWOL CHIMPANZEE

[Frustratedlady]

8. It seems they happen when any VIP visits from the Repug side.

But, especially Cheney, Rumsfeld used to draw their ire, anyone who touts things are going great.

We need to get out of there and let them settle their own problems. God knows we haven't helped them one twit.

[polichick]

2. "McSameasBush" - Dems should repeat that until it goes viral!

[Lars39]

3. Has there been any word on the supply lines yet?

[malaise]

6. One pipe line blown up

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7317614.stm
<snip>
Meanwhile, one of Iraq's two main oil export pipelines from Basra was blown up in a bomb attack, sending oil prices above $107 a barrel.

And Basra's police chief survived a bomb attack that killed three of his bodyguards.


Thousands in Baghdad demanded the Iraqi PM quit

[Lars39]

9. Sorry, I meant the roads and means to supply the troops.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

5. No 'splaining, just cheerleading.

Hurrah for the Surge! Go Amurika! USA USA USA!

:sarcasm:

[malaise]

11. Another link

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/303FAF6B-AA73-49DB-838E-4B83D9C9B1A6.htm
<snip>
Iraqi sources told Al Jazeera that about 60 civilians were killed in a US air strike on the city of southern city of Hilla, although there were conflicting reports.

Iraqi security sources said that 29 people were killed.

The Basra operation extended north to Kut, where six Iraqi security personnel and six civilians were reportedly killed as troops fought militia members street by street.

To the west in Diwaniyah, Shia fighters attacked a police station, killing two people.

In Tikrit, at least seven civilians were reportedly killed and nine others were wounded in US air strikes that destroyed two homes, according to Al Jazeera sources.

Khalaf Haloul, a resident of Amara, told Al Jazeera by telephone that clashes between Iraqi forces and the Mahdi Army were under way there as well.

He said mortars and rockets could be heard across the city.

Mahdi Army fighters had deployed in all areas of Amara in anticipation of military attacks, Haloul said.
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Cheney wants that oil really bad.

[chixydix]

10. I find it beyond belief there are UNreinforced structures there...

:shrug:

[Supersedeas]

12. this should help Condi's effort to 'encourage' diplomats to go to Iraq voluntarily