[BabyPeanut]

The elections at the end of the month--didn't we go though something very similar in June?





Is this attempt going to be any different?

[Guest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BabyPeanut', '
')Is this attempt going to be any different?

[BabyPeanut]

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')eople in many areas are being told that if they don’t vote- Sunnis and Shia alike- the food and supply rations we are supposed to get monthly will be cut off. We’ve been getting these rations since the beginning of the nineties and for many families, it’s their main source of sustenance. What sort of democracy is it when you FORCE people to go vote for someone or another they don’t want?

[k_semler]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BabyPeanut', 'h')ttp://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')eople in many areas are being told that if they don’t vote- Sunnis and Shia alike- the food and supply rations we are supposed to get monthly will be cut off. We’ve been getting these rations since the beginning of the nineties and for many families, it’s their main source of sustenance. What sort of democracy is it when you FORCE people to go vote for someone or another they don’t want?

[BabyPeanut]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('k_semler', 'D')osen't this seeem rather unsustainable to you? People having to rely on food shipments for sustinance when they should be capable of harvesing/hunting/purchasing sufficent quantities to survive on? When TSHTF, these people, (persons who cannot sustain themselves), will be the first to perish.

[k_semler]

So we should let them sell 2 MBPD, and in exchange for letting thier oil on the world market, we could give them sustinance in exchange. Kind of like what was done during the 90's with the "oil for food" program, but Saddam Hussien is not in the way to skim off the profits for weapons instead of food.

[BabyPeanut]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('k_semler', 'S')o we should let them sell 2 MBPD

[BabyPeanut]

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercuryn ... 451.htm?1c
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]OFFICIALS UNCERTAIN OF INSURGENTS' DEFEAT

By Tom Lasseter

Knight Ridder

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's first democratic elections in 50 years were marred by nine suicide bombers, 44 people reported killed and untold numbers of mortar shells that rained down on polling sites and the nation's government center.

The elections were, in other words, a success.

Because the death toll fell far short of what many had feared, the voting was a clear political victory for U.S. and Iraqi security forces. It was unclear, however, whether the insurgents were foiled by Iraqi security forces and by the 150,000 U.S. soldiers conducting aggressive operations or whether most of them took the day off to wait for better times, places and targets.

``The streets of Baghdad were not filled with blood as mentioned by the terrorist groups,'' said Farid Ayar, an official with Iraq's Independent Electoral Commission.

Ayar stopped short of naming Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian terrorist who has claimed responsibility for numerous bombings, assassinations and beheadings across Iraq.

[BabyPeanut]

http://www.iags.org/iraqpipelinewatch.htm
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '1')99. February 2 - attack on oil pipeline connecting Bayji refinery to Daura refinery. The attack took place near Samarra.
200. Fabruary 5 - attack on a cluster of eight pipelines west of Samarra connecting the Bayji and Daura refineries.
201. February 6 - attack on pipeline carrying crude oil from Kirkuk to Bayji.
202. February 9 - attack on a gas pipeline before dawn in Fatha, about 15 miles north of Bayji.
203. February 9 - rocket attack on a pipeline linking Kirkuk to Bayji.
204. February 13 - 10:00pm attack on oil pipeline at the al-Dibbis oil field north of Kirkuk.
205. February 14 - another attack on oil pipeline at al-Dibbis.
206. February 16 - attack on pipeline carrying crude from Kirkuk to Bayji near Fatha.
207. February 16 - attack on pipeline carrying crude from Kirkuk to Daura refinery.
208. February 16 - another attack on pipeline near Fatha.
209. February 16 - attack on pipeline in the Bajwan area, northwest of Kirkuk.
210. February 16 - gunmen killed Colonel Ibrahim Ahmed in charge of pipeline security. The killing took place at Ajeel west of Kirkuk.

[0mar]

I like how the insurgents took a 4 day weekend.

[Tyler_JC]

It's tough work blowing sh*t up all day. Ask a marine. Every now and then you need a break.