Saboteurs Attack N. Iraqi Oil Pipeline

Associated Press ^ | September 8, 2003 | Sabah Jerges

[a_Turk]

My gawd, we're so helpless!!!!!

[concerned about politics]

With stuff like this happening all the time, it'll take forever to find those WMDs.
Let's hope we find them before they can use them.

[Austin Willard Wright]

The world policing business is complicated and wrought with unintended consequences, as some of us warned.

[RightWhale]

we're so helpless

It's just a pipeline, and not a large one. It will be repaired soon. Bombers are finding it harder every day to attack pipelines.

[jwalsh07]

Whose fault, President Bush or McClintock?

[be-baw]

My gawd, we're so helpless!!!!!

No kidding!! Good grief, protecting a pipeline ought to be pretty straightforward, I would think! Who's in charge there, anyway? Does anyone even have a clue?

[faithincowboys]

This is beginning to sound like Groundhog Day.

[arete]

My gawd, we're so helpless!!!!!

No we're not. We have $87 billion to spend on them. If that doesn't work, we'll spend $100 billion on them. We're going to send them computers, give them broadband connections to the internet, big screen TV's and GameBoys until they are happy.

Richard W.

[ChadGore]

Time for a "You broke it, you fix it" policy.

[Russell Scott]

Gee, I wonder if Saddam and the terrorist were buddies? They never blew up the pipelines when he was in power.

[concerned about politics]

It's just a pipeline, and not a large one. It will be repaired soon. Bombers are finding it harder every day to attack pipelines.

The AP sure does put the doom and gloom/ end of all life on the planet type spin on the story, doesn't it?
After reading this one, I wonder how many liberals will be committing suicide to avoid the horrors.

[Radix]

We are not helplesss. We are hindered by a press corps that thinks Karl Marx was a god. We are hindered by virtue of the fact that politicians would rather listen to a poll taken of ignorant non voters than by listening to the concerns and comments of a great thinking group of persons (many of which can be found posting on FR.com) who actually vote.

The cultural war is reaching an apex right now. There will be casualties. I believe that the likes of those elite cultural Marxists who would presume to advise working Americans about values (which the have none of) are in for a very serious fall.

They will not know what hit them when it is all said and done. No, my friend, we are not helpless. We are awakening.

[Buckwheats]

Bombers are finding it harder every day to attack pipelines.

I certainly hope so. It doesn't seem like it should be much of a problem. Just guard arbitrary points on the pipelines and change these points daily. Also, fly a couple of those drone thingies constantly along pipeline routes. And, of course, instantly eliminate anyone who's spotted near them. After awhile, no one will go near a pipeline.

[concerned about politics]

No, my friend, we are not helpless. We are awakening.

I agree. Good post.

[ARCADIA]

We should use our $87 billion to build 87 nuclear reactors at home, and tell the meddling UN to do whatever it wants with the middle east. Why are we spending our dollars and our people, unless we are going to get some solid returns out of it? If terrorist are the only reason we are there then lets erase the Iraqi wastelands with ICBMs and get on with it.

[concerned about politics]

Why are we spending our dollars and our people, unless we are going to get some solid returns out of it?

Fighting terrorism over there instead of here sounds good to me. Over there, the military awaits them.

[zacyak]

You are quite the naughty boy for pointing out reality.

[dinok]

Well...
they tried killing our men thinking we would run like cowards and that didnt work...
then they bombed the UN...and the UN ran...
Now they are going after the pipe line.

kepp the UN away from the pipe line and we'll be fine.