Is Bush Administrations 'success' the full installation of military bases in Iraq?

[shance]

Is that the way they will then have total control and no one can pull them out of the Middle East?

What are military bases specifically used for?

[camero]

1. Yes

And the military bases like all the other overseas bases are for occupation and control over the host countries. The US has a base list that makes the Roman Empire pale in comparison.

[shance]

2. Is that where all of our taxpayer money has gone? Building these military bases?

Why isn't this being more addressed?

Why do I ask?

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Becuase empires do not like to publish

their bases, we are an empire, if a reluctanct one

[juajen]

4. The bases and "Embassy City", plus lining the pockets

of their cronies.

[shance]

5. So what do we do about it?

I guess one thing to do is begin talking about it more.

What else can we do?

[bridgit]

6. they're used for the storage of materiel & the staging of larger conflicts...

elsewhere in the region would be my guess

[mmonk]

7. That was to be the toehold in a war of conquest.

We're in and we'll have oil contracts sown up soon. And the people will say "we're winning the war against terrorism". And we'll all live with the lies until the next escapade.