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expatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:02 AM
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Fox News: Iraqi Oil Ministry Building hit by rockets, on fire...
Edited on Fri Nov-21-03 01:09 AM by expatriot
no link yet... will edit post when more info....
on edit...

Faux News putting info on this attack in their story on the Hotel attacks....

"Explosions also shook Iraq's oil ministry on Friday morning, witnesses said, and thick black smoke poured from the heavily guarded compound.

Fire trucks moved about the ministry and U.S. soldiers kept journalists away."


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103724,00.html
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DeathvadeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:04 AM
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1. Looks like the Iron Hammer worked real well. n/t
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dobak Donating Member (808 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:04 AM
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2. oh man
I am starting to feel a little pity for *

Nothing is going his way

:-)
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hussar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:06 AM
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4. What the f##k does he care
he's on vacation.......again
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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:05 AM
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3. Holy shit. I guess the Rebels are figuring that the US is too busy with
Michael Jackson to respond.

That's the gist I'm getting from the news.
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:07 AM
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5. <sigh>
What a damned mess. I think this whole Iraq invasion is even worse than I dreaded back in March.
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Randi_Listener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:09 AM
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6. As the bodies hit the floor...
....fuckface Bunnypants traipses around Jolly England.
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AnnitaR Donating Member (958 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:10 AM
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9. What the heck is he doing in that picture? n/t
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Randi_Listener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:14 AM
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11. Falling on his ass....
....getting out of the pResidential limo.
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:36 AM
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17. he should practice getting in and out of the residential limo. i'm not
kidding. he really should. that really looks stupid.
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JPace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 09:56 AM
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30. He dropped his little dog onto concrete last summer....
he is a fumbler of great magnitude combined
with very poor judgement. I wouldn't call him
dumb, but smart in a tiny boxy sort of way.
He thinks he knows it all and that makes him
dangerous.
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 09:45 AM
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26. Falling on his ass getting out of the pResidential limo...while drunk n/t
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:16 AM
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13. i think he`s trying to get out of
suv ,having a bit of trouble with that pesky door
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:17 AM
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14. Stumbling drunkenly out of his ride
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 02:33 AM
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22. An improvised Boogaloo, I think....
must have gotten his 1/4ly profit sharing check from Carlyle Group.
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Media_Lies_Daily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 10:33 AM
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32. Still drunk from all of those great toasts with Queenie.
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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:46 AM
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18. looks like he's doing a victory jig
Mission Accomplished!
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AnnitaR Donating Member (958 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:09 AM
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7. Move along.. nothing to see here... much more important
stuff going on. Michael Jackson just took a dump. That's the serious news we need to know about.
:eyes:

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jenk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:10 AM
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8. Well that's one way to get Cheney's attention
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Frances Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:11 AM
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10. Is it time for Rumsfeld to say that there is light at the end
of the tunnel?
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Pax Argent Donating Member (350 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:15 AM
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12. Yeah, just ignore those whistles and that chugging noise!!!
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wellst0nev0ter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:30 AM
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15. "We Don't Need No Water. . ."
Oops, back to Non-stop Jacko Nooze. . .
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Gloria Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:33 AM
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16. "Top of the world, ma!"---James Cagney on top of a burning oil
storage tank in WHITE HEAT....

Pipelines, oil ministry, Bush and Cheney....top of the world...
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kskiska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:54 AM
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19. and Bar Bush down below, watching Junior.
n/t
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hail to the thief Donating Member (44 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 02:15 AM
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20. Okay who here is shocked
Edited on Fri Nov-21-03 02:30 AM by hail to the thief
by these attacks? Why is it so difficult for this administration and indeed the majority of Americans to understand that people have always taken up arms to expel an invading/occupying force from their country, and that this is simple logic meandering to its obvious conclusion. I am about to burst with anticipation to see the truly staggering amount of spin that will be erupting forth from the Reichstag, sorry I mean, White House.
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xxqqqzme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 02:24 AM
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21. U didn't get the memo
http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/04/11/a-coker.php

IMMINENTLY QUOTABLE "We have, in recent days, referred to those attacking American forces in Iraq as ‘resistance fighters.’ Although this term is not inaccurate on its face, it conveys unintended meaning. To many, it romanticizes the work and goals of those killing GIs. We should avoid using it outside of quoted material." Excerpt from Nov. 3 memo by assistant managing editor Melissa McCoy to Los Angeles Times staffers.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 08:34 AM
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23. I for one am, I never knew the Iraqi donkeys were so organized
:shrug:
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 09:27 AM
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24. The resistence forces certainly are clever and subtle
This is going to go on for years.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 09:43 AM
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25. I'm waiting for someone to say "they are getting more sophisticated"
By using donkeys.
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Neutrino Donating Member (609 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 09:49 AM
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27. "No nation that launched a war against another sovereign

nation ever won. And every nationalist-based insurgency against
a foreign occupation ultimately succeeded".

----M. Bearden, OIC ex- Sr. CIA Officer Afganistan

(there are several well-known insurgencies that have not been won,
but they endlessly continue to their penultimate conclusion stated
above).
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Neutrino Donating Member (609 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 09:50 AM
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28. edit--

remove "endlessly"
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 09:52 AM
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29. Not good for the junta, not good at all
The oil ministry building undoubtedly contains well records, production records, seismic data, logs, and other critical data on the oil production. Could have used this data to determine where to drill next, which wells to re-work, where down the well bore to frak to produce....a gold mine of information.

Without those records, billions more will be required to find and produce the ill-gotten oil spoils.

This is why the "coalition" guarded the oil ministry building as soon as Baghdad was invaded. Priceless treasure of information.

This is not good news for Dickless Cheney. Things are going completely out of control.

aaaaawwwwwwwwwwwww. :nopity:
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LittleApple81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 10:29 AM
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31. Well, it is morning and I cannot see a reference to this anymore?
What happened? Michael Jackson's face has enough makeup to cover every other issue in the world?
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 11:11 AM
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34. here is a photo of Oil Ministry....
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BlackFrancis Donating Member (243 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 10:35 AM
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33. They aren't stupid..
Convince the regime that they are never going to be able to plunder the oil out of Iraq and all those bitter tears shed over the suffering Iraqi people will dry up in a heartbeat and we will move the show somewhere else.
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