Posted on 03/23/2003 7:07:25 AM PST by Mia T
(paraphrasing) The FoxNews crawler just had a message that many of the Iraqi facilities we have taken over have been found to be wired for destruction... the focus on the message had to do with oil wells I think. It said Saddam was prepared to 'blow up his entire economy.'
Analysis ...
(BTW You just read this analysis here, but I doubt that you will read it in the main stream media ... ;-) ...)
Ray Heizer, March 22, 2003
Sabotage averted
If true, we (and the Iraqi people) were extremely fortunate Bush launched that strike against Saddam on Wednesday night, just after the 48 hour deadline had expired.
Getting Iraqi oil back on market a matter of months, years
Adm. Michael Boyce, chief of the British defense staff, said "practically all" Iraqi oil and gas installations had been mined or booby-trapped, indicating Saddam was "prepared to blow up his entire economy." U.S. Brig. Gen. Vince Brooks said Saturday that only nine of Iraq's 500-plus oil fields had been sabotaged.
Bush: All your base are belong to us.
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