Permanent Bases Built in Iraq - See them here.

[kpete]

Permanent Bases Built in Iraq

Al - Faw Palace, with lake - once privately owned by Saddam Hussein and now privately occupied by the US - is on the grounds of the Palace Complex. It has a conference centre, pool and 62 rooms - soldiers’ socks can be seen drying in the windows. Very Important People come here and talk about “good news.”
Submitted by davidswanson on Mon, 2006-04-17 22:58.

Evidence
See more of them here.
http://indexresearch.blogspot.com/2006/04/us-bases-in-iraq-part-i-baghdad.html

[rox63]

1. That looks like one of Saddam's palaces, not a military base n/t

[Zhade]

2. Uh, yeah, that's what the caption says.

NT!

[Flabbergasted]

3. Notice the positioning here.....!

They run through the center of the country from Bagdhad on up more or less in a semi-circle.

Perfect positioning against Russia Bombers etc and right on the oil fields


http://www.fcnl.org/iraq/bases.htm

[handsignals4theblind]

4. Why be surprised--it shows the true nature of hypocritical USA

Oh well, maybe CNN can produce one of those unsubstantiated Al Zarqawi attacks to distract from this issue. What Hypocricy, talking about 'liberation' and yet not consulting the Iraqi public about their intentions for permanent bases.

Mind you most Americans could not give a damn. When your an insular country, have little respect for other cultures, and only report on or count your own dead what does that say?

Most of the resistance is homegrown and not thousands of foreigners as they like to tell you.. Best of luck to the insurgents---spank the superpower that forgot it's lessons in Vietnam.

[annabanana]

5. (your, you're)

read around here a little more, dear

[lukery]

6. Larisa Interview Part 3: Bad Leaks and Good Leaks

Kpete o/t - there's a new thread for the 3rd installment of my larisa interview here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x952073

cheers

[leftchick]

7. I have been waiting to see these!

thank you! No photo but one of the big ones...

US Camp Victory – al-Nasr, Baghdad has been named as one of the possible future permanent bases in Iraq. It is around 5km from Baghdad International Airport, and 15 minutes from central Baghdad.

Kellogg Root and Brown7 (KRB – a subsidiary of Halliburton) were contracted to supply modular buildings to house dining, living and administrative rooms and install electricity and plumbing. The Pegasus Dining Facility also has “a short-order grill, salad, pizza, sandwich and ice cream bars; … a Burger King stand, and a PX (04.04) which offers … televisions, gas grills, A/C units, microwave ovens, women's thong underwear and condoms. “ There are also “internet cafes, weight rooms and basketball courts.”


... and this is interesting...


Parsons was contracted to build “T Walls” in 11.04. In the summer of 2005, a Kuwaiti firm was ‘awarded’ the $592m contract for the new US embassy in Baghdad, to be completed by 2007. Built to withstand attack, this Ozymandius on the Tigris, composed of a cluster of 21 buildings, will have “a gym, swimming pool, barber and beauty shops, a food court and a commissary. In addition to the main embassy buildings, there will be a large-scale US Marine barracks, a school, locker rooms, a warehouse, a vehicle maintenance garage, and six apartment buildings with a total of 619 one-bedroom units. Water, electricity and sewage treatment plants will all be independent from Baghdad's city utilities. The total site will be two-thirds the area of the National Mall in Washington, DC.” It will be the largest US embassy in the world. For that reason, I have included this US Embassy in Baghdad amongst US Bases in Iraq.

For an honest view of the Green Zone and military facilities around Baghdad airport, read the Daily Iraqi Cheese Grader


It is possible that the US might give up some of the smaller tented Forward Operating Bases surrounding the Baghdad International Airport. It seems highly probable that they will keep their grasp on the imperial palaces and expanding US bases within this area for the foreseeable future. These bases could thus be seen as “permanent.”

[neoblues]

8. Permanent bases... probably why they're so worried about

IRAN getting nookyer weapons... especially one that might get smuggled into IRAQ, snuck into the vicinity of one of the permanent bases... and *flash*, no more permanent base (and probably even difficult to prove whodunnit).