The Bush administration is seeking $348 million for base construction

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Bush's Requests for Iraqi Base Funding Make Some Wary of Extended Stay
By Peter Spiegel, Times Staff Writer
March 24, 2006


The bulk of the Pentagon's emergency spending for military construction over the last three years in Iraq has focused on three or four large-scale air and logistics bases that dot the center of the country.

The administration is seeking $348 million for base construction as part of its 2006 emergency war funding bill. The Senate has not yet acted on the request.

By far the most funding has gone to a mammoth facility north of Baghdad in Balad, which includes an air base and a logistics center. The U.S. Central Command said it intended to use the base as the military's primary hub in the region as it gradually hands off Baghdad airport to civilian authorities.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-usiraq24mar24,1,3603677.story?coll=la-news-politics-national

[xiamiam]

1. whos gonna build it?..halliburton?...nt

[Warren Stupidity]

2. That's a lot of base.

Considering that we are not going to permanently occupy Iraq.

[xiamiam]

3. just another way to fill their pockets with chump change..really irks me..