Does anyone have a link to article about permanent Iraq bases?

[KissMyAsscroft]

Im in an arguement with a freeptard and I can't find an article I saw a while back about the permanent bases.

Also an article on a proposes Israelis pipeline from Iraq...

If anyone could point me in the right direction, that would help a lot...thank you!

[Lars39]

1. Ooops. that's about the largest embassy....sorry.

Can't search my bookmarks right now. :shrug:

[KissMyAsscroft]

2. Ive seen that one...

Im looking for ones about the permanent bases, not just the Embassy..

Thank you though!!!

[Lars39]

3. Here's one....iffy source?

http://www.northstarcompass.org/nsc0403/bases.htm

[punpirate]

4. It's mentioned here...

... in Tom Englehardt's site:

http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/indexprint.mhtml?pid=1468

Unfortunately, Chalmers Johnson doesn't provide a citation along with his questions. His research is usually pretty good, so I wouldn't doubt that there's substantiation for it.

Can't find any other sources for that number.

[Ms. Clio]

5. I found this from The Guardian

US 'to keep bases in Iraq'

David Teather in New York and Ian Traynor
Monday April 21, 2003
The Guardian

The US is planning a long-term military presence in Iraq, in a move which will dramatically extend American power in the region and spread dismay and fear among its opponents across the Arab world.
According to reports, the Pentagon intends to retain four military bases in Iraq after the invasion force withdraws. It is already using the bases to support continuing operations against pockets of resistance. They are at the international airport near Baghdad, at Talil; close to the city of Nassiriya in the south; at an isolated airstrip called H-1 in the western desert; and at the Bashur airfield in the Kurdish north.

A senior administration official told the New York Times: "There will be some kind of a long term defence relationship with Iraq, similar to Afghanistan. The scope of that has yet to be defined - whether it will be full-up operational bases, smaller forward operating bases or just plain access."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,940405,00.html


I later heard this figure was changed to 14 bases, but I haven't found that article, yet.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Chicago Tribune, March 2004: 14 `enduring bases' set in Iraq

"Is this a swap for the Saudi bases?" asked Army Brig. Gen. Robert Pollman, chief engineer for base construction in Iraq. "I don't know. ... When we talk about enduring bases here, we're talking about the present operation, not in terms of America's global strategic base. But this makes sense. It makes a lot of logical sense."

Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy chief of operations for the coalition in Iraq, said the military engineers are trying to prepare for any eventuality.

"This is a blueprint for how we could operate in the Middle East," Kimmitt said. " the engineering vision is well ahead of the policy vision. What the engineers are saying now is: Let's not be behind the policy decision. Let's make this place ready so we can address policy options."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0403230140mar23,1,7365265.story

On edit: I think the Iraq-Israel pipeline was always more of a pipedream - something Chalabi held out to convince Perle et al that he'd bring prosperity to the whole Middle East, especially Israel. I don't think anyone else took it seriously.