Get Used to it Children, The USA is NEVER Leaving Your Country...

[leftchick]

If they survive, when these babies are having babies of their own the USA will still be in Iraq. I have finally accepted that fact. :(



Iraqi children watch a U.S. patrol passing by in Sadr City in eastern Baghdad December 11, 2005. With less than a week until Iraq's parliamentary election, competing political blocs are blaring out promises that strike a chord with voters desperate for a better life after years of war and hardship. After nearly three years of bombings, kidnappings and assassinations that have resulted in the deaths of thousands since U.S. forces overthrew Saddam Hussein, it is no surprise that many politicians have cited security as their top priority. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Unfortanetely her name is not Terri Schiavo

so her life doesn't not matter to most Americans.

[G_j]

2. and you can rest assured

we will own most of your oil. Don't worry about the permanent bases, they are there to protect you.

[Solly Mack]

3. When are the people in America going to want more from government?

To be so strong in numbers and yet so weak in resolve for a better America. Iraq is America's shame - why don't people want better than shame?

[Joe Chi Minh]

4. Do you want to bet?

[leftchick]

5. sure

The USA has not spent BILLIONS on permanent US communicatins and bases in Iraq if they did not intend to stay for the long haul, like at least 30 years or so...

A Permanent Presence

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/outrage?bid=13&pid=2132

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Now comes a report in the New York Sun by Eli Lake revealing that the Pentagon is building a permanent military communications system in Iraq, a necessary foundation for any lasting troop presence. The new network will comprise twelve communications towers throughout Iraq, linking Camp Victory in Baghdad to other existing (and future) bases across the country, eventually connecting with US bases in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Afghanistan.

"People need to get realistic and think in terms of our presence being in Iraq for a generation or until democratic stability in the region is reached," Dewey Clarridge, the CIA's former chief of Arab operations (and Iran-contra point man), told the Sun.

The fabled "exit strategy" may be not to exit. Thomas Donnelly, a defense specialist at the American Enterprise Institute, said the new communication system resembles those built in West Germany and the Balkans, places where American troops remain today. "The operational advantages of US bases in Iraq should be obvious for other power-projection missions in the region," Donnelly wrote in an AEI policy paper.

Next time the Bush Administration hints at withdrawing troops, keep these grand plans in mind.

[Joe Chi Minh]

6. We clearly differ in our basic assumptions.

I believe the prosecution of a large number of corrupt Republican politicos and their buddies is going to open up a such a can of worms as could only be dreamt up by lunatics (think faux defense corporations channeling funds to the Republican party to fund their electioneering operations, as well as for personal enrichment of the prinicipals), and then the corrupt domestic US elections); and the face of American politics will never be the same again. The Republicans may have to rename their party, as well as reform it.

Negative posts on here have a habit of being disproved, or haven't you noticed?