Pentagon Studies Long-Term Commitment in Iraq

Source: NPR

The White House and Pentagon are under increasing pressure from Congress and the public to end U.S. military involvement in Iraq. But the Pentagon is considering maintaining a core group of forces in Iraq, possibly for decades.

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The Pentagon has not published any contingency plans on how to deal with Iraq in the event of a large-scale drawdown, but it is discussing various scenarios.

A series of military installations could be maintained around Iraq, with a total of total of 30,000 to 40,000 U.S. troops, for a long period of time — maybe a few decades. There are currently about 160,000 U.S. troops in Iraq.

The bases would be located in various strategic locations, ones that served by air landing strips, for instance. The bases would be sealed and U.S. forces wouldn't be on patrols as they are now.

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War, Greed, Occupation, inevitabley our oil rich capitalists will steal all the natural resources of Iraq. Did anybody stop to do a study that determines how much of a terrorism threat a long term base structure in Iraq would have? hmmm

No matter what you think about 9/11, they have played it to the hilt and continue to get us killed for their bottomline.

And Halliburton?

blood and oil don't mix

and the military isn't in the oil buisness.....