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US to keep four bases in Iraq

Guardian | 21.04.2003 10:53

US to keep four military bases in Iraq

Front page report in today's Guardian: US to maintain four military bases in Iraq, including one at Baghdad airport.

They have also maintained bases in Afghanistan and surrounding countries, constituting a military build-up in region.

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oil pipe

21.04.2003 11:05

AND THEY ARE TO OPEN AN OIL PIPE TO THERE FRIENDS IN ISRAEL .THAT WILL PLEASE THE ARAB NATIONS THAT THE WANT TO LIBERATE?. SOUNDS A BIT LIKE AN OCCUPING FORCE TO ME

swiss toni


PNAC anyone?

21.04.2003 13:36

This is exactly what the imperialists signed up to the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) manifesto have planned all along. Its actually coming true. Multi theatre wars, military bases in the middle east and domination of space. This is what dick, donald and paul (wolfowitz) hold so close to their hearts, their vision of a pax americana.

We must refuse and resist, starting with US military presence in the UK.

vigilante


US military presence

21.04.2003 15:36

"We must refuse and resist, starting with US military presence in the UK"

Agreed. I think the U.S. of A is dragging the world ever closer to nuclear war. But what can we do?

Brian B


just a reshuffle

21.04.2003 16:08

well according the BBC muppets show (BBC WORLD news)
they reckon that the American bases in saudi arabia and Kuwait were, supposedly, to protect both countries from attack by Iraq . having take that, supposed, threat out
the yankkkees can now reshuffle the pack, possibly simply transferring some of their forces into Iraq.
I guess it all depends on how much "liberating" they are intending to lay on the region ::

hoax an awe


Get orf moy laand

21.04.2003 16:36

Well i would never insight anyone to do anything illegal but if people did want to move towards expelling US military from our soil the first place to go would be to the Yorkshire Dales. The biggest US spy base in the world is at Menwith Hill (the famous golfballs). Also, Fylingdales would be a place to actually resist US force as it is the future sight of the son of starwars national missile defence programme. The expansion for this project hasn't started yet, but will in the coming years. It marks an increase in global US dominance, as they will now have an early warning and missile defence system, and though it is not yet advanced enough to be effective, it entails all manner of political and economic advantages.

If and when the US turns its muscle to Syria (as looks likely), hopefully people will ask more and more questions about the US agenda, and will demand answers from the UK government as to why they are facilitating the new US led world order. Obviously Tony B.liar is in the Whitehouse pocket at the moment, but if the US truly does go down the path set out by the Project for a New American Century thinktank, then a worse mood will rise. The UK could follow the US to Afghanistan because of Sept 11 and to Iraq because of Saddam, but he will not be able to go to Syria or inded any other country, unless we truly do live in a country full of hypnotized idiots. Increase pressure on the state.

In the mean time, increasing pressure on US military installations in the UK would definitely not go amiss, and that means sabotage folks, although i (ahem) would not (cough) advise this (i am not that stupid). you know what i mean.

vigilante


and the UK serves tea with biscuits..

21.04.2003 23:38

...in Um Qasr!

No one is evn going to get anywhere near the US bases in the UK as I believe they are secret locations withing the thousands of square miles of UK MoD land.
The NSa in Yorkshire is ofcourse a big institution but not strictly military.

The way to do this is by changing the regime in the UK and them ask them to leave nicely.

Still they might say fuck off and stay. Basically we could be fucked unitl the USA crumbles down itself.

Anyway....Rumsfeld syas that the original post is bullshit
 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=FKUSE0SS3T2KICRBAEZSFEY?type=topNews&storyID=2599306

ram