SOURCE: CHENEY "IN TEARS"

ISLA DE ONS, Spain (Reuters) - Thick fuel oil is oozing from holes in the sunken tanker Prestige like toothpaste from a tube, pictures taken by a French submarine revealed on Thursday, showing the wreck off Spain's coast remains an environmental hazard.

Dramatic images taken by the mini-sub Nautile during a dive two miles down to the Prestige's resting place on the Atlantic Ocean bed show strands of oil seeping from cracks in the tanker's bow and spiraling upwards.

The pictures fueled fears that the wreck could turn into a long-term source of pollution, worsening the plight of fishermen in Galicia in northwest Spain, already devastated by 17,000 tons of fuel oil spilled by the tanker before it broke in two and sank on November 19. (Full story)

By the way, that ship carried seven times the oil that was on the Exxon Valdez. Three cheers for America's oil-whoredom!