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[casi] Donald H. Rumsfeld has a plan...



Poor, poor Iraqis.  Ancient heritage contemptuously destroyed, disregard for
current welfare of citizens, US can't manage to turn on the lights in
Baghdad, but hey, wait  -you're going to receive world-class airbases with
jaunty US marines sauntering about searching for local bars.. ..


NYT   Pentagon Expects Long-Term Access to Four Key Bases in Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/9vfl

American military officials, in interviews this week, spoke of maintaining
perhaps four bases in Iraq that could be used in the future: one at the
international airport just outside Baghdad; another at Tallil, near Nasiriya
in the south; the third at an isolated airstrip called H-1 in the western
desert, along the old oil pipeline that runs to Jordan; and the last at the
Bashur air field in the Kurdish north.

It is a swath of Western influence not seen for generations.

"The subject of a footprint for the United States post-Iraq is something
that we're discussing and considering," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld
said this week. "But that will take some time to sort through."

Read on..

cheers, pg


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