The United States Has Permanent Plans in Iraq

[maddezmom]

The United States Has Permanent Plans in Iraq


The United States is constructing multiple military bases in Iraq, and a gigantic embassy in Baghdad. Even as the US Congress, media, and citizenry debate withdrawal from Iraq, indisputable evidence on the ground shows a permanent imperialistic plan for US-occupied Iraq, says Patrick Seale.


Last week, almost unnoticed, the war in Iraq entered a new phase. Laconic statements from the White House and the Pentagon confirmed what had long been suspected -- namely that the United States is planning a long-term military presence in Iraq.

This is a geopolitical development of the first importance. It is a clear statement that, in spite of its current difficulties in Iraq -- May was the most lethal month since 2004, with 119 U.S. soldiers killed -- the United States firmly intends to maintain control of Iraq and its vast oil reserves. Iraq’s neighbours and energy-hungry states and oil companies will take note.

On a visit to the U.S. Pacific Command in Honolulu on 31 May, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that the United States was looking for a "long and enduring presence" in Iraq under a mutually agreed arrangement with the Iraq government.

"The Korea model is one, the security relationship we have with Japan is another," he said. U.S. troops have been in South Korea since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War and in Japan since the end of the Second World War.

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[indepat]

1. That the US is willing to spend trillions of dollars in treasure, kill or maim

countless hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and suffer countless thousands of deaths and ghastly permanent injuries to members of its armed forces/others, all to turn over countless trillions in oil revenues to big oil in this imperialistic venture have long been obvious to any reasonably informed person in the entire world possessing even a smattering of intelligence and reasoning. Long live the King.

[izzie]

2. If your going to run the world you must have a base.

Has any one figured out why so many in this country want and think they have a right to run the world? Fun to be Rome? Just how did this a creep into our way of life any how?

[Mark 2000]

3. I like the 104 acre embassey

I guarantee you Disney is footing some of the bill. Welcome to Epcot Iraq.