MC CAIN’S COMMENT ABOUT REMAINING IN IRAQ FOR 100 YEARS WAS NOT A BLUNDER!
BUSH IS NEGOTIATING WITH THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT FOR LEASES FOR 58 PERMANENT BASES IN THE COUNTRY
THERE WAS NEVER ANY INTENTION OF BRINGING ALL OF THE SOLDIERS HOME-- EVER!
According to an article published this week (6-21-08) on Salon.com since 2003-4 the military under direct orders from the Pentagon and, in turn, from the White House, the U. S. government has been negotiating for 58 permanent bases with long term leases.
In fact, since 2004 the military has spent billions of dollars in making each of these bases mini-cities in the very heart of Iraq. Soldiers, rather than fighting a war, have been building new run ways, constructing permanent living quarters with accompanying commercial enterprises for providing all of the services the American military personnel and perhaps their families who will be assigned there will require—grocery stores, dry cleaners, gas stations, medical care facilities, etc.
Can you imagine? 58 military bases spread throughout Iraq; Bush’s and McCain’s way of ensuring that our troops will not be redeployed anytime in the near future.
Who authorized this scam in 2003-4? Is this the president’s little joke? Or was it solely the doing of Donald Rumsfeld?
Did the Congress know about this? Was the cost of this project included in the billions of dollars we are spending to “become victors,” or was it an “off balance sheet” entry hiding in the margins of the budget like so much of the Iraq war expenses have been?
More importantly, what do we do now? What does a new President do with this mammoth investment? Whose name is on the “mortgage?” Do we abandon these little enclaves? Do we run them over with bull dozers and view them as the cost of waging war?
What laws have been broken? Who is responsible for this ghastly display of government indifference to the will of the people. 70% of the American people oppose this war and would probably explode into a seizure if they knew just how disgustingly arrogant the members of the Bush Administration turned out to be.
I was shocked when I read the piece! The U. S. government has hood-winked the American electorate. We, the voters, and the “real deciders” in this country know nothing about long term leases for air bases that will house our troops and our military armaments for as long as the military leadership deem appropriate to accomplish its ultimate goals for the mission there.
McCain said it might take 100 years and he meant it. His words were not a blunder, a gaffe or a mistake. The Bush Administration intends to establish its presence in the Middle East in Iraq in order to be able to establish a democratic island in the midst of one of the most volatile parts of the entire world. “Imposed democracy” is a new policy of the American government under the leadership of the George W. Bush administration. He believes that God has chosen him to establish democracy in an area of the world where democracy is a foreign form of government.
Islam cannot afford for democracy to flourish in any country where it has control. The Muslim clerics decide what will and will not be undertaken by the government, what is the will of Allah and what is opposed to Allah’s teachings.
Our government talks of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, as the real power in Iran. He is not! The Guardian Council in control of the Islamic clerics is the real power behind the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who, in reality, controls the government and the religious tenor in the country.
The truth is the U. S. government cannot come to terms with al Maliki’s government because they are under pressure from Iran who wants U. S. troops out of Iraq as quickly as possible so they can exert their influence and if possible their control over the new, and nearly dysfunctional government.
On the other hand, some Sunnis leaders privately are anxious for the U. S. troops to remain in Iraq to maintain equilibrium against the growing influence of Iran. However, other Sunni influential power brokers have signed a letter to the U. S. Congress asking for a timetable to be established that would set a date for U. S. troops to departure. Behind the scene other Sunnis countries are considering stepping into any void the absence of departed U. S. troops will create.
That would not be all bad for us, but for Bush and his oil buddies want the oil rights in perpetuity and the only want to get want they want is for the U. S. plant 58 bases in the heartland of Iraq and remain there with their watchful eye on the oil reserves and their pipelines.
Rest assured that when Bush says, and he has on numerous occasions, that troops will be in Iraq long after his administration has departed from the capital, he means it. There will be no troop withdrawal until this agreement for 58 military bases is signed, sealed and delivered and that will not be until the two parties can work out the details including the U. S. insistence that no military or related personnel can be tried for their participation in the war.
Iraq has sought a security pact with the Bush Administration outside the pact that exists with the U. N. that Iraq wants to terminate. However, such a pact would require the approval of the U. S. Senate which at this time would not be inclined to override the overwhelming opposition to the war in the public’s mind.
An overpowering majority of the American people now believe that the war was one of the worst blunders in our history, that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and those in the Senate who supported the war (including John McCain) lied to the voters, that the Bush Administration’s mismanaged the entire venture from the beginning and have done nothing but create one massive disaster which has thrown our hard earned tax money down a bottomless rat’s hole..
Why the U. S. seeks to maintain 58 military compounds in Iraq with U. S. military personnel, modern living quarters, an environment similar to any U. S. city and air bases from which U. S. planes could launch attacks against any enemy that would infringe upon the Iraqi oil supply or the autonomy of the Iraqi government, is insanity at it best.
The American government simply cannot afford such an elaborate complex of facilities for whatever reason George Bush and friends have designed this scheme.
Since Bush has taken our budget from a surplus of $2 trillion dollars when he assumed the president’s office to a deficit of nearly $4 trillion (some reliable sources estimate $9 trillion) since the cost of the Iraq war has never been accounted for in the federal budget, there are urgent needs at home that demand all of the money our treasury has at its disposal.
Bush has flagrantly ignored the needs on the domestic front in order for him to carry out his perception of God’s will to establish a democracy in the Middle East. As a result the home front has been neglected and everything from our infrastructure to our Social Security has been placed in jeopardy.
The worse possible move we could make would be to maintain 58 enclaves of U. S. troops in a country where the hostility between the Sunni, the Shiites and the Kurds will continue long after some sort of an accord is reached allowing American troops to depart for home.
What shocks me is that a project of this size, constructing 58 military bases tells how little of the true Iraq the generals want the press, the visiting Senators and the presidential candidates to see.
Senators Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham who are following McCain around the world like two totally entranced lovers, have never mentioned seeing 58 air bases on their numerous visits to Iraq with McCain. McCain’s off the cuff comment about staying in Iraq for 100 years is the only clue we have been given that this treacherous Bush Administration knowing perfectly well that the voters, the real deciders, in this country want this conflict concluded and our soldiers removed from harm’s way, have been planning since 2004 to remain there ad infinitum nausea.
Until the article that appeared in salon.com I have not personally read one article about this gigantic project. Since, apparently it has been underway since 2004, where have all the journalists gone?
Since there is no way that the Shiites and the Sunnis are going to form a “more perfect union,” that after 1400 years of battle they are about to turn their “swords into ploughshares,” any troops left behind will still be involved in combat and their lives will remain in jeopardy.
It is too bad Bush has only seven months remaining in his term or we could impeach both Bush and Cheney and prosecute several members and former members of their administration for misuse of public funds and the criminal expansion of “the Executive” powers as provided in the Constitution—a document which they have more than once imperturbably circumvented.
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