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Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Collecting oil

Here's an interesting paragraph from Juan Cole's daily rundown of the mayhem in Iraq:
The explosion at a leaking oil pipeline near Diwaniyah that killed 16 persons who came to collect petroleum from it would have been bad news enough all on its own. Instead, a mere deadly accident flew under the news radar. The tragedy came because of the severe fuel crisis in Iraq, which drives people to try to collect oil in dangerous ways.
In a larger sense, the tragedy came because of the severe fuel crisis in America, which drives people to try to collect oil anywhere and everywhere in extremely dangerous ways.

Juan Cole's summary of the situation:
Bombings stretched from Istanbul to southern Iraq on Monday, in a new arc of crisis. This isn't going very well.
Which leads to the quote du jour: "Iraq will never be in a civil war." -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki

Just imagine, President Abraham al-Malincolni delivering the Gettysburg Address: "America will never be in a civil war."

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