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The Mother Jones blog has a bit of a scoop, plucked from the Arabic-language press:
It looks like an eco-nightmare is taking place on the beaches of Lebanon. Reports coming in say beaches are being clogged with oil because five out of six oil tanks at the electricity plant in Jiyeh were destroyed by Israeli bombs.
The Lebanese Embassy in Washington confirmed the spill.
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Lisa Hymas Posted 1:02 am
28 Jul 2006
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Reuters has more details now:
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amazingdrx Posted 1:39 am
28 Jul 2006
War
What is it good for?
Big contractors, that build the weapons that destroy, and clean up the mess afterwards.
You can bet US taxpayers will pay for any cleanup, through the nose, to a halliburton type contractor.
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ffletcher Posted 6:27 am
28 Jul 2006
Don't think US will clean it up
Sounds like maybe 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 barrel of number 2 oil went into the sea. I can not believe they failed to have secondary containment to contain this oil as well as site run-off control measures, I am assuming these failed. While a mess it is not crude oil. I checked the units at that power plant and they appear to be the kind that require refined oil, on the order of diesel. It will spread rapidly, and be out of sight. I suspect it will be ignored. I doubt that the US will want to clean it up, nor will Israel, nor Lebanon. I don't see any reason the US should clean it up.
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amazingdrx Posted 11:58 pm
28 Jul 2006
Eyes wide open
"I don't see any reason the US should clean it up."
Condi has already offered up US taxpayer's funds (in the form of unpayable US national debt to China)to rebuild Lebanon's infrastructure. Will the usual Bush friendly corporate suspects get the rebuilding contracts?
Will Israel's bombing of water systems, power systems, and broadcasting stations be as effective at creating a chaotic mess o' Lebanon as it was at creating the Bush administration mess o' potamia? And cause 10s of thousands of deaths of the most vulnerable (young children)from lack of sanitary water as it did in Iraq?
Rummi said about bombing al qeda and the taliban after 911: "we would just be bouncing the rubble, we need to bomb some palaces." The bombing of Iraq commenced soon after that.
Israel's version of the Bush administration rummis can't find hezbollah so they are destroying the infrastructure of Lebanon instead. That's some smart "strategery".
Can't find al qeda or hezbollah? Why "bounce the rubble"? Instead turn civilization into chaos and insure that those organizations will continue forever. Why would Bush and friends do this?
Because this war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Only by waging continuous war can peace be maintained. "War is peace." ("1984" George Orwell)
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