HERE'S WHY AMERICAN SOLDIERS ARE DYING *PIC*

by WhiteHorseRider, Sunday, November 14, 2004, 12:48

Warfare is all based on economic greed and not on real socio-economic need. Our men and women of our military are dying in Iraq for the sake of an oil pipeline. It has nothing to do with "spreading democracy" throughout the middle east, as if that was an attainable goal in the first place. No, it is about getting the oil.

Yet, as I have said before, they that can destroy a thing controls a thing. The U.S. will never, never be able to keep this pipeline online now that the majority of the middle east hates our guts. Fallujah only exacerbated the real problem. Now, there are going to be "insurgents" every mile along this
pipeline shown below, all with improvised explosive devices to keep it in flames.

And no number of our boots on the ground will be able to protect its entire length at all times. There will always be a gap in security large enough for one of those devices to slip in.

Therefore, the question becomes, how much blood can we afford to transmute into oil? That is the bottom line.

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LIBERTY FORUM.ORG

Mosul-Haifa pipeline has three US military bases protecting it

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H-3 has a combat regiment and an air wing

Camp Korean Village is located in a remote stretch of Iraq's western desert, close to the Syrian-Iraq border, and near the highway that connects Jordan with Baghdad.

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H-2 is an Airbase

H-2 Airbase is located in Southern Iraq approximately 350 kilometers West of Baghdad. The airfield is served by two runways 12,600 and 8,800 feet long. H-2 occupies a 41 square kilometer site and is protected by a 26 kilometers security perimeter.

H-1 is an airbase

H-1 Airbase is located in Southern Iraq. The 2d Air Defense Sector, also known as the Western Air Defense Sector, had a SOC at H-3 Airfield, with IOCs at H-1 Airfield, H-3 Airfield, and Ar Rutbah.

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