Jeeez... The Ammo Depot explosions being shown live on CNN. They just...

[Hissyspit]

keep going off and going off in Baghdad. They just don't seem to end.

Good god...

No reports of casualties. So Far.

[MadMaddie]

1. They are saying they evacuated all soldiers and civilians

I am skeptical of that....the explosions are huge...

[w8liftinglady]

2. me,too...they feel it 4 miles away

[Ian David]

10. Mayor Nagin didn't send the busses?

I'm not going to play the blame game, but why didn't Clinton secure the ammo dumps?

[hlthe2b]

13. You bad.... You SO bad....

:rofl: (laughing at comment but praying this isn't one more devastating tragedy with more lost lives)...

[MissB]

14. .

:spray:

[CC]

3. B. Williams just said

that that is most of our ammo supplies for Iraq. Also said it is Camp Falcon and was hit by a mortar round right in the middle of the ammo supplies.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. Turned a corner.

Light at the end of the tunnel.

[shadowknows69]

Bunch of deadenders

shooting at bullets instead of our soldiers. So what do our people fight with now?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. You go to war with what you've got.

At least the stuff that hasn't been blown up yet.

[countryjake]

41. Plenty more where that stuff came from!

Creating cannon balls is extremely profitable to our War machine and far easier than finding the cannon fodder needed to utilize it.

[Hissyspit]

8. Sometimes you turn a corner and get mugged.

And then everything goes dark.

[Leopolds Ghost]

23. Light at the end of the ammo storage tunnel... RUN! n/t

[Hissyspit]

5. Wow, what an amazing mess we've created in Iraq...

So much for the good news. /sarcasm

[Beetwasher]

6. So All The Ammo Is Going Up In Smoke?

Amazing.

[MissB]

16. Does that end the war, then?

Seriously, they can't have all the ammo in one spot. That would be monumentally stupid.

[CC]

26. Beyond that we have

monumentally stupid people in charge, most likely not all of it but wouldn't be surprised if it is a sizable chunk of it. Then again with the monumentally stupid people in this administration who knows. Not like they ever listen to anyone with any know how.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

18. Up... down...

sideways...

[kestrel91316]

17. ".....that is most of our ammo supplies for Iraq..."

Time to put the grownups in charge here. Every third grader knows the old adage about not putting all your eggs in one basket.

[Shipwack]

39. I was thinking the same thing, but...

What if that was the only basket we had?

It wouldn't surprise me if that was the one place in all of Iraq that we had that was secure enough for ammo storage.

Alternative theory, and possibly more likely... Halliburton or some such had the contract for ammo storage, and it was more profitable for them to keep it all in one spot.

: "You see, having multiple storage locations is thinking form the last war. In the modern era, you have to employ modern management techniques. In Iraq, we are utilizing JIT supply techniques ("Just In Time"). Having all the storage at one spot enables are network centric field managers... I mean "officers", to order just the exact amount of ammunition they need for that days battle. No extra ammo in the field means that units won't waste it by firing, increasing efficiency and cost savings!"

ugh... I feel dirty now... I need to take a shower after typing that.

[Fleshdancer]

22. crap. this is not good for our soldiers.

Just when you think it can't get worse, it does.

[rodeodance]

33. a prayer for our Troops---

[me b zola]

24. That's what I was afraid of

Now that they have concentrated our troops in Baghdad, they will be woefully short supplied on ammo for a while. Goodness help them. :scared:

[Ian David]

25. We don't need ammo. We've won The Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi people

We just have to convince them that they've given us enough chocolate and flowers, and now we could really use a couple ammo belts.

[Gwerlain]

45. And to quote Colbert,

a few more of those Improvised Explosive Celebrations.

[DoYouEverWonder]

34. I guess that will put a damper

on Bush's plans to invade Iran?

[Lerkfish]

42. all our eggs in one basket...yep, sounds like neocon strategy

[Catherine Vincent]

7. No more ammo?

Than this will be Bush's excuse to pull out.

[me b zola]

27. He doesn't give a rat's ass that they are sitting ducks

I wish that he would use this as an excuse to bring our military home, but I doubt that he will.

[BuyingThyme]

9. The mercen... uh, contractors need to place a new ammo order

before the election.

Bonuses for everybody!

[Jackpine Radical]

11. I watched the 1st Cav ammo dump blow at Camp Evans,

just south of the DMZ in 1968. It was extremely well stocked in anticipation of the assault on Khe Sanh, when the Cav went in to dig out the Marines who had been under seige there since Tet. That dump cooked off all night, and 4 underground storage tanks of helicopter fuel went up at random times during the night. 50,000 gallons apiece. I was sitting on a bunker watching the fireworks in the ammo dump. When the first fuel tank went, it billowed up into a mushroom cloud that I honestly thought was a nuclear explosion. "Oh Shit" I said to myself as I rolled backwards off the bunker. "I been nuked." I wondered how come I could still see and how long it would take my face to fall off. Later that night, word of the true nature of the explosion made the rounds & I felt a lot better.

[daleo]

36. That's a fascinating post

Thanks for writing it.

[MadMaddie]

40. Yes...thank you for sharing your memories with us...

[Ex Lion Tamer]

44. Damn.

That's pretty intense.

I'm such a pussy. I cannot imagine being in a war zone.

[Ian David]

47. No one could have anticipated the bombing of the ammo dumps

It is completely un-precedented that an enemy would actually attack an ammo dump.

I'm not going to play the blame game, but why didn't Mayor Nagin send the busses to evacuate the base?

Why didn't Clinton secure the ammo dumps?

Why does Bush keep falling off his bicycle?

[Ian David]

49. I was ten miles away when the Hercules Powder Plant in NJ blew-up in 1989

The first explosion was loud enough to wake all of us up.

It's a much different sort of sound than what you hear, say, when a truck hits a guard rail. Or when they're blasting at a construction site. You just know-- even though it's far away-- that it's HUGE.

My sister's first instinct, though panicked and scared, was to run to look out the window.

I got her to sit with me, tucked into a ball, with our backs against the wall, facing away from the window.

There were two more smaller explosions after that.

And then we all got dressed to go to my High School Graduation.

Oddly enough, there had also been an explosion there in 1940:
http://www.roxburynewjersey.com/hercules.htm

[Caution]

12. Al Qaeda's Number 2 must have been in the ammo dump.

We got him! Yay!

[MoonRiver]

19. "Number 2" is a metaphor for this entire bogus war.

Maybe that's why they keep killing "Number 2's". Freudian slip, over and over.

[Homer Wells]

31. BushCo's strategy:

Just kill every Iraqi and maybe majority of the rest over there. They are bound to get ALL the #2's , and ...maybe...even bin Laden:crazy:

[jokerman93]

50. Too close to the truth

Too close to the truth to be funny. The Bushco/PNAC strategy is clearly "scorched earth". I called genocide on this shitwar right after Falluja I. Don't mind me. I'm just disgusted with these rich corporatist chicken-hawk bastards today.

-- More than usual I mean.

:nuke:

J

[David Zephyr]

21. Wicked sense of humor.

and so true.

[yy4me]

20. If this was our main ammo supply depot and it just went up in

a blaze of glory, could this be our "October Surprise"? No more ammo, off we go. Can't fight a war without the bombs and bullets. Better go home or meet the 6th fleet in the Mediterranean Sea and prepare for the next frontier. Good job Bushie!

[tocqueville]

28. just a little fire

The damage appeared to have been contained within the base, the US spokesman said, although Iraqi officials said that shells "cooking off" in the fire had crashed down in five districts in the south of the city.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061010/ts_afp/iraqblastusmilitary_061010215442

[hatrack]

32. Nothing to see here, move along, our soldiers would have used it up anyway

Gosh, this'll really boost the "Stay The Course" crowd, won't it?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

35. Yup, nothing to see here.

Dick Cheney's hunting quail again.

[Leopolds Ghost]

29. Bush just Took a BIG Ammo Dump in Baghdad. Smells like sulphur n/t

[Horse with no Name]

30. The majority of ammo gone

makes our soldiers sitting ducks.
Bush is building up the Strait of Hormuz which will piss off Iran who in turn will go after our unarmed soldiers.
Our guys are going down folks.:(
GET THEM OUT NOW!
But my dark side says that Bush needs a catastrophic end to this because it will be his entrance into Iran and WWIII and martial law.
I have felt for a long time that they aren't being honest about the casualty numbers so here is his one big chance to pad them into one fiasco.

[spanone]

37. Nor do they know what caused it. Uh, maybe the war? Huh?

Enemy?

[countryjake]

38. The explosions are rocking buildings miles & miles away...

imagine this night of terror that the children and families of Baghdad must be experiencing.

They said awhile ago that some of the falling ash and debris appears to be igniting blazes outside the perimeter of the ordnance fire.

I hope this damage is so devastating to the US forces that they have no other choice but to get their asses out of there!

But of course, all it probably means is that massive new orders for more missiles and bombs are hurriedly being called into our defense contractors who supply all that weaponry...speed-up the lines, boys, it's the Fourth of July and there are rockets to be sold.

End the Occupation, NOW!

[brettdale]

43. still no report of casualties

But the explosions could be heard all over the capital.

[JHB]

46. Will this throw a monkey wrench on Bush's coming war on Iran?

If sane people were running things, I'd say "yes", but then, if sane people were running things, we wouldn't be anywhere near that situation.

[SpiralHawk]

48. Nah, it will just boost profits for republicon crony munitions makers

and our money grubbing "elites" at Halliburton -- spawn of Dick "Five Deferments" Cheney