It's confirmed!!! The oil fields in southern Iraq have been set on fire by Saddam's army. What good he hopes to achieve with this is beyond anyone's comprehension. At the very least, one would think he would save them for the Iraqi people... wait, I forgot, he doesn't give a #$@% about them.

We haven't felt the immediate effects yet here, I just looked out the window and the sky looks OK for now. I just hope it's not as bad as when he set fire to Kuwait's oil fields in 1991, at its worst it was pitch dark at noon!!