The Trick Is on US (Important read)

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-hart/the-trick-is-on-us_b_18261.html
Gary Hart
A few weeks ago, I published an opinion piece entitled "And Now for Their Next Trick." The piece predicted that a new Iraqi government, more or less picked by the U.S., would invite the U.S. to stay in Iraq as a stabilizing force and that we were constructing permanent military bases for this purpose, all in accordance with the original neoconservative/imperial agenda in the Middle East.


I have been pleading with the American press corps for months to ask the Bush administration one simple question, a question designed to expose our true agenda: "Are we, or are we not, constructing permanent military bases in Iraq?" Full stop.

Finally, this from Gen. John Abizaid, our senior military commander in Iraq: The United States may want to keep a long-term military presence in Iraq to bolster moderates against extremists in the region and to protect the flow of oil. (source: Reuters, March 15, 2006)

Despite recent assurances that we were going to withdraw our military from Iraq as soon as we "stand up" the Iraqi military, President Bush stated a few days ago that his legacy to his successor was the Iraqi war.
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