Oh, hell. That's what WG's been saying. He's been pointing to those permanent bases and saying, "We have no intention of leaving." He also told me last week that Iraq has virtually untapped oil resources because of the embargo and because Saddam Hussein never let the oil companies in.
I imagine that, based on the charts that were published in newspapers in 2003 of the "Iraqi Interim Government" (with American military in all the key positions and Iraqis at the bottom of the pyramid as advisors) that the plan changed. The US had to be less open about it, and got a lot more resistance than we expected.
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Date: 2007-10-13 08:15 pm (UTC)I imagine that, based on the charts that were published in newspapers in 2003 of the "Iraqi Interim Government" (with American military in all the key positions and Iraqis at the bottom of the pyramid as advisors) that the plan changed. The US had to be less open about it, and got a lot more resistance than we expected.
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