Permanent bases anyone?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20060202-103630-7889r.htm

snip - RAMADI, Iraq -- A U.S. Navy construction battalion fresh from Hurricane Katrina relief duty is battling the elements and daily insurgent attacks to build permanent bases in the dangerous Anbar province.
The famed Seabees of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133, based in Gulfport, Miss., rode out Katrina in late August then immediately got to work clearing roads, repairing houses and delivering relief supplies in Gulfport and elsewhere in storm-ravaged Mississippi. A month later, the 650 sailors were deployed to a half-dozen sites in western Iraq to undertake a wide range of construction projects.


Not going to stay one moment longer than necessary - eh Mr. Bush?
The occupation will never end until America changes its political tune drastically. And the insurgent attacks will not end until America leaves Iraq. And America will not leave EVEN if the newly formed Iraqi government asks them to.

BushCo & Cronies makes money the old-fashioned way: war profiteering.

especially where they talk about "forward deployed forces" and "projections of force into regions of interest" and so on. US army bases in the US? Don't need 'em. We are an "empire" now, so the legions need to be at the empire's borders, fighting the barbarians. So ship them our, along with their equipment, especially to the ME and then into Asia (Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India soon). Don't need them in North America (except enough to control the population here). Don't need them in Europe... the Soviet threat is gone. Need them in the ME, Asia... and
SPACE (yup, the PNAC folks call for the military control of space.

So close down the US bases... and build new ones in conquered territory... and restart the manned moon missions.

He returned from Iraq in April.Also out of Gulfport.I can confirm this is all true.He was very lucky to make it back.Rocket and mortar attacks almost daily.

a Moonie publication -- and Moon with strong ties to BushCo . . . just another example of BushCo saying to the American people "We'll do whatever the hell we want, and fuck you if you disagree or call it illegal" . . . talk about pulling out American forces, but simultaneously let it be known that it's all propaganda, and we're there to stay . . . hubris extremis . . .