[SquirrelKing]

More goodies from the bed-wetting Village Voice. I didn't post this to inflame but to...well ok, I did. Give 'em hell boys and girls. Look out troops, more crater critters on the way.

[wideawake]

"What did they do first?" asks Hashem Marmala, a 30-year-old waiter. "They went for the oil. People are starving in the cities, and they were concerned about Rumaila," he says, referring to the southern field that pumps up to 60 percent of Iraq's oil.

Idiot. With the Rumaila oilfields destroyed, a temporary shortage of supplies would have become months of famine.

[Lunatic Fringe]

"It costs about $15,000 for a wedding here," he laments.

Huh?

[Cobra Scott]

This is a pretty popular cop-out right now.

The thousands of "middle-class-mujahadeen" don't mind getting on camara and spitting out drivel about the US, and how they are going to Iraq to fight the Great Satan, etc.

Of course, they realize that once they get there, a whole new economy will have opened up, and they can feed at the trough of foreign investment once again, denying they ever badmouthed the US.

While this is the dawn of a new era in warfare, that of the "refugeeless conflict", it is not without an increase in carpetbaggers.

[BigBobber]

Proving there are leftist whiners in every country.