~use links~ P.S. Were you aware that McCain is a US Senator and as such has security, especially in a war zone.  I am not sure what you think the story is~ Peejz

Monday 02 April 2007

Baghdad – A truck bomber carrying food supplies killed eight Iraqi schoolgirls and a baby in the northern oil city of Kirkuk on Monday as suspected Sunni militants executed 21 Shiite workers north of Baghdad.

The attacks were the latest evidence of stepped up sectarian and insurgent killings outside Baghdad where a massive US-Iraqi security crackdown, now into a seventh week, has seen American officials boast about signs of progress.

The US Defence Department said on Monday that the 30,000 additional troops sent as reinforcements to Iraq would remain in the country until at least the end of August.

Monday’s bomber blew up his truck full of flour and explosives near a girls’ primary school and police station in a Kurdish area of Kirkuk, killing 12 people, including the nine children, a hospital doctor said.

Another 178 people were wounded in the blast that took the facade off the police station and smashed through cement blocks while US troops were visiting, district police commander Major General Torhan Yussef Abdul Rahman said.

This is entirely normal, good planning and management. Says Robert

~Please use link buttons and don’t post entire articles.  We are all capable of following the links. Peejz~

The ignorant folks love it, though. And they’ll give up their $10 to reward the purveyors to see it.

As for battle plans being in place for attacks against Afghnaistan and Iraq being prepared before 9/11, I just have to say “Well, DUH!”. Hell, we wargame thousands of possible scenarios virtually at all times. We have hundreds, if not thousands, of battle plans under development at any time. That’s how we are actually able to bring together the troops and logistics efficiently enough to actually be able to fight a war. The Japanese even wargamed various scenarios of the battle of Midway. They made two big mistakes in their planning. The Admirals overruled a judge who declared at least two key Japanese carriers destroyed during the battle, the second was that they didn’t know that the US had cracked the Japanese naval code and was waiting for them. Anyone thinking that it is anything other than Standard Operating Procedure to have plans in development for any possible contingency needs to stay VERY far away from any form of governmental power. They simply have no clue about what strategic planning means.

Yeah…becasue Afganistan is such a world oil prodcers.

AlterNet. LMFAO

Now, let’s quote The National Enquirer.

By Richard W. Behan, AlterNet. Posted February 5, 2007.

In the Caspian Basin and beneath the deserts of Iraq, as many as 783 billion barrels of oil are waiting to be pumped. Anyone controlling that much oil stands a good chance of breaking OPEC’s stranglehold overnight, and any nation seeking to dominate the world would have to go after it.

The long-held suspicions about George Bush’s wars are well-placed. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were not prompted by the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. They were not waged to spread democracy in the Middle East or enhance security at home. They were conceived and planned in secret long before September 11, 2001 and they were undertaken to control petroleum resources.

If passed, the law will make available to Exxon/Mobil, Chevron/Texaco, BP/Amoco, and Royal Dutch/Shell about 4/5′s of the stupendous petroleum reserves in Iraq. That is the wretched goal of the Bush Administration, and in his speech setting the revenue-sharing “benchmark”Mr. Bush consciously avoided any hint of it.”