Dozens Hurt After Tanker Blast in Iraq »

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  STONERS

  Feb. 20, 2007, 2:11 a.m.

  At least one person died in the blast near Taji, about 12 miles northwest of Baghdad, said Mohammad Abbas, an emergency room overseer at Kazmiyah Hospital.

  People treated at Kazmiyah and other hospitals said they had trouble breathing and were vomiting, but the cause was not immediately known, he said.

  Chemical experts collected samples from the tanker and conducted air tests.

  Among those hospitalized were dozens of children, Abbas said.
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  sue2008

  Feb. 20, 2007, 8:54 a.m.

  it is really sad. how come Bush did not stop that??
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  cincybabe

  Feb. 20, 2007, 10:03 a.m.

  It's all too far gone now. It's a disaster. And in order to make a true difference, he'd have to admit he was wrong along the way. And that won't happen.
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  vor

  Feb. 20, 2007, 11:16 a.m.

  And the beat goes on...

  Interesting that if Saddam ever had chems from Post GW1 that these insurgents either have no idea where they are or even more likely know that they never existed. Why else would they use of tanker to create this kind of misery? Would be much easier to just set off chemical munitions.
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  LABELDUDE

  Feb. 20, 2007, 11:41 a.m.

  I never believed the "weapons of mass destruction" thing in the first place. I'm surprised that a bunch of you suckers did. I figured that as an irrelevancy. Just a trigger to start an attack on a hostile Far Eastern "country" who happened to be firing missles at USAF most every day. The attack on "Iraq" being a response to 911 as a reminder to all Far Eastern "countries" that Uncle Sam doesn't like being attacked.

  What does surprise me is that George was talked into staying around and playing Social Worker in that backward land at the expense of thousands of our young people.
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  edromar2

  Feb. 20, 2007, 11:44 a.m.

  djn3nunez3 said Bush doesn't try to get out of the catastrophic consequences of his criminal invasion of Iraq Because he cannot reverse his blunderous invasion and occupation.

  But there must be 50 ways to leave Iraqis!

  Just run for the gorge, George,

  Hope on a plane, Jane,

  And get ourselves gone.

  Or if we had any sense we would get the UN to partition Iraq, putting the Shiite areas under an Iranian protectorate (which is essentially the case already), the Sunni/Baathist's under a protectorate, and the Kurds under Turkey, or make them independent.

  In any case, the UN will need to make sure the partition follows the populations except to also assure that the oil fiels are shared proportionately. And of course, we will have to pay to resettle portions of the population.

  But it will cost us far less to save the Iraqis and bring those in danger of retribution for helping us into our home country.
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  edromar2

  Feb. 20, 2007, 3:37 p.m.

  We must use anyone of the 50 ways to leave Iraqis because of what we are leaving in our wake:

  Baghdad Barbies and Baghdad Kens were blasted to smithereeens.

  The children cared and wailed their latent cries,

  longed in loneliness, And went silently to bed, sobbing in their pillows.

  They dreamed of putting humpty-dumpties back together again,

  But all the parts had not returned, and some so charred and torn,

  and Heads confused,the children called for help from any adults near.

  The children cared but couldn't hear any words of hope, or consolation.

  No one knew a way to make whole what was being broken faster than

  All the children's cries could fix, what could be fixed? Or stopped,

  What could be stopped from evil temper tantrums calling for them

  Now to return to suffer more? in penance for not stopping yet the AntiChrist,posing as a President, Sacrificing Baghdad Kens and Barbies
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  STONERS

  Feb. 21, 2007, 1:04 a.m.

  Thanks Fabienne..

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