Insurgents blow up oil pipeline in [Northern] Iraq [on Saturday]

[expatriot]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A major oil fire raged Saturday after insurgents blew up a pipeline in the north of the country. The family of an anchorwoman for a U.S.-funded state television station - a mother of four who was repeatedly shot in the head - found her body dumped on a street in the northern city of Mosul.

Insurgents, meanwhile, killed two civilians in a roadside bombing west of Baghdad, a suicide car bomber killed an Iraqi national guardsman and injured 7 people southwest of the capital and the U.S. military announced the death Friday an American soldier killed in a massive security sweep in the Sunni Triangle

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http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/world/11002018.htm

[sasquatch]

1. We're bringin' freedom to Iraq

:eyes:

[Guckert]

2. Don't forget LIBERTY!!!

I love freedom. Freedom to blow the hell out of whatever you want and kill whomever you want. Ain't Bush Freedom grand

[ChiciB1]

3. HEY! It's DEMOCRACY!!

Not Sure WHAT KIND of Democracy, but the Boy King Idiot likes it just FINE!

But then, he wouldn't know TRUE Democracy if it hit him on his Smirky PUSS!

Try McCarthy on for starters!!!

[benburch]

4. It is not even possible in theory to defend a pipeline.

Even if you posted armed guards within earshot of each other along the whole length, a concentrated force of men could reach the pipe and destroy a segment before more than a few guards on either side of the attack point could respond.

100 miles of pipeline, with a guard every 50 yards would require 10,000 men assuming they rotated through 8 hour shifts. Plus support personnel. And there are several hundred miles of exposed pipeline in Iraq.

[NickB79]

6. I thought the number was in the thousands of miles of pipe?

Oh wait, that was last week. NOW it's in the hundreds of miles.

[benburch]

7. Well, thousands are many hundreds...

I was guessing on that part...

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. They win, chimp loses. It's as simple as that.

"Let Freedom reign!" scrawled the simian son of a bitch.