GO IRAQIS! Iraq lauches it's first new oil tanker in 27 years

[Bill]

It's nice to see a wronged people getting something of their own going, after being tortured by the US invasion and occupation. Congratulations to the Iraqi people.

And good to see more signs of an oil flow.

Naturally, the ship was built by China.

And it's a shia ship, based in Basra. Well, technically the sunnis are barred from the oceans, trapped in the dry west, so any ship is going to be a shia ship.

Betcha money it's going to be carrying shia oil to China. I'll keep watch for reports of where this new tanker goes.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jniC_ypTG3mEPcDlU58xTjrywuFAD8TJBBMG0

The Iraqi Oil Tanker Co. launched its first new ship in 27 years Monday, and delivery of two more tankers is expected within three months.

The Dijlah — the name for the Tigris River in Arabic — was inaugurated in the southern port city of Basra, officials said.

The 14,000-ton capacity, Chinese-built ship will help ease export problems Iraq has encountered as its beleaguered but vital oil industry begins to recover from years of war and neglect, officials said.

[Jesse Hemingway]

It's nice to see a wronged people getting something of their own going, after being tortured by the US invasion and occupation. Congratulations to the Iraqi people.

And good to see more signs of an oil flow.

Naturally, the ship was built by China.

And it's a shia ship, based in Basra. Well, technically the sunnis are barred from the oceans, trapped in the dry west, so any ship is going to be a shia ship.

Betcha money it's going to be carrying shia oil to China. I'll keep watch for reports of where this new tanker goes.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jniC_ypTG3mEPcDlU58xTjrywuFAD8TJBBMG0

Time out that could be a weapon of mass destruction in disguise.

[disrupter]

I don't feel as much sympathy for Iraqis.
I do feel badly that we broke the rigid container of their lives.
I hate the way the chaos they have suffered with has been so dismissed.
But much of the current & certain civil war is a function of ethnic divisions that blanket this globe.

if everything were magic i would wish everyone could have all the kumbaya they could handle.

I guess i am just fed up. Tired of our stupid politicians. Tired of irresponsible, ignorant Americans. I am too tired to feel guilt or shame, i just want out.

Iraqis understand Iraq better than i ever could, would or probably want to.
They like everyone else will just have to hash things out until some organic configuration of quasi-stability takes some kind of shape.

The Universe is unimaginably brutal, is that news?
My job is to minimize the brutality to me & mine & if resources allow to avoid causing any avoidable brutality to others.

people live with rape. it is just a fact of life. apologies don't un-rape anyone. All you can do is go forth & don't rape again.
At some point of murderous stupidity i may become completely violently angry at my own government.
The way we act, i don't have much sympathy left for us.
Much worse & i will be cheering terrorists that attack America.
Nothing else seems to be making us even think like sane people.

America has become a real ball & chain,
more & more debatably NOT worth the effort.

honest mercenaries i can live with,
but liars or mad persons who claim virtue but act like the lowest form of mercenaries is just unacceptable.

Barbarians. Treacherous, deceiving barbarians.