AMERICAN TROOPS MUST WITHDRAW FROM IRAQI CITIES BY JUNE 30, 2009; OR WILL THEY REDEPLOY TO MORE PERMANENT BASES INSIDE IRAQ?
AT ONE POINT THE U. S. HAD 100 BASES SPREAD THROUGHOUT OIL RICH NATION—WE WILL CONTINUE TO OCCUPY SIX [6] MASSIVE “MEGABASES” HOUSING 50,000 TROOPS IN AMERICAN LUXURY
WE ARE CONSTRUCTING THE LARGEST EMBASSY IN THE WORLD IN BAGHDAD AT A COST OF OVER $500 BILLION—I WONDER WHY?
Have you read about the suicide bombing that took place on June 24, 2009 in the Green Zone in Baghdad killing seventy-nine [79] persons and injuring over one hundred [100]. Last week in Baghdad another suicide bomber killed a large number of people in a large marketplace in Iraq’s capital city. In each case these bombings have taken place in the Shiite sections of the city and in each case it is believed that the bombers were Sunnis.
As the deadline for the American combat troops to departure draws ever closer, the anxiety among the Sunni population which was in control under Saddam Hussein although comprising approximately twenty [20] per cent of the country’s population grows ever fearful that once the U. S. has withdrawn from all of the major cities, the Shia will carry out a genocide, or if you will, a slaughter of the Sunnis population.
These suicide bombings are an expression of the well grounded Sunni suspicion that their fate will be strictly in the hands of the Shiite controlled government and that the power they once sustained under Saddam will be permanently torn from their grasp.
I am sorry, John McCain, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld and all of the neo-cons who conceived of this preemptive invasion for reasons yet to be unfurled, for fourteen hundred years the Sunnis and the Shiites have been at each other’s throat, no amount of surge or military power will erase this hatred that each Islamic sect feels against the other.
So why are we departing the shores of Iraq? It is really very simple. When Bush’s people began to negotiate the U. S. exodus, the Bush people wanted to maintain 58 of the 100 bases we have constructed at a yet to be determined price. Some experts believe that half of every military allotment the Congress has passed for fighting the war in Iraq has gone for the purpose of building these bases. The number has been whittled down six [6], but not just six military bases, but six mammoth military complexes that have been labeled “megabases” by those who have had a chance to observe their construction. The location of these bases has been strategically situated throughout the country: bases to protect the oil wells and pipelines from saboteurs, and other bases will be designated to protect Baghdad, still others will be assigned the major responsibility of protecting our assets against invasions from Iraq’s neighbors who have designs on the same oil reserves that attracted Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney and all of their colleagues who have been labeled neo-conservatives.
These bases have all the conveniences of home—swimming pools, air conditioned living and working quarters, tennis courts, golf courses, satellite and cable television, internet connections, modern kitchens with all of the very latest appliances, a PX that carries all of the electronic gear young soldiers enjoy and security that can not be penetrated the enemies that surround Iraq.
These are permanent bases. We intend to be in Iraq for some time. Or as Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said recently, “We have had a presence in the region for some time and we have had ‘an enduring presence recently and will have an enduring presence for some time to come.”
In other words, from the beginning, the Bush/Cheney combine invaded Iraq to gain control over the world largest reservoir oil reserves. As one leading scholar and writer on Iraq has said, long after Saudi Arabia’s oil wells are dried up, long after the oil supplies of all other Arab countries are consumed, Iraq will have enough oil to fuel the world.
It is noted by some that Bush and Cheney associates have already been negotiating with the Kurds. The irony is that shortly after the redeployment of American troops, it has been announced that the new Iraqi government will begin negotiating to sell the rights to its gargantuan oil reserves to the highest bidder.
I think we may have hit upon the quandary that has occupied the minds of so many observers of U. S. policy under Bush. Why would the United States preemptively invade a country that did not attack us, that did not pose a threat to our national security, that was no way connected to the 9/11 tragedy, possessed no weapons of mass destruction and was in no way affiliated with al Qaeda.
We went for control of the country with the largest stock of oil reserves in the world and we did it on behalf of the military-industrial complex against which Republican President, Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us in his final address to the nation.
When you elect two fast draw cowboys who were intricately involved with major oil companies--one whose father is “on a first name basis” with the King of Saudi Arabia; the other the former Chairman and CEO of Halliburton, a company on the verge of bankruptcy when Cheney became Vice President, but who, contrary to Department of Defense policy, won multi-billion, non-competitive bids to provide various services to our men fighting in the war in Iraq, you never know what the result will be. However, eight years later we now know !
One other point, the United States of America has military bases in 737 locations around the globe [not including bases used by the CIA and the DOD for intelligence purposes]. Many in countries where it makes absolutely no sense to spend our precious dollars on men and facilities, we continue to spend millions of dollars to maintain and man.
Perhaps, someone in our government, someday, will have the balls when determining which military bases to close, will elect to close some of bases we have in parts of the world that have little or no affect on our national security. Maybe Obama is that man.
Regardless, as June 30, 2009 approaches we will undoubtedly see an upsurge in suicide bombings by Sunnis who are frightened by the exit of American combat troops and fear that the majority party in Iraq, the Shiites, will wipe them out once and for all; no doubt with the help of the militant Shiites in Iran.
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