Iraq: Brink of Civil War, 4 Giant New US Bases, Exit Strategy?

[G_j]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5199524-103681,00.html

US military to build four giant new bases in Iraq

Michael Howard in Baghdad
Monday May 23, 2005

Guardian

US military commanders are planning to pull back their troops from Iraq's towns and cities and redeploy them in four giant bases in a strategy they say is a prelude to eventual withdrawal.
The plan, details of which emerged at the weekend, also foresees a transfer to Iraqi command of more than 100 bases that have been occupied by US-led multinational forces since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

However, the decision to in vest in the bases, which will require the construction of more permanent structures such as blast-proof barracks and offices, is seen by some as a sign that the US expects to keep a permanent presence in Iraq.

Politicians opposed to a long-term US presence on Iraqi soil questioned the plan.

"They appear to settling in a for the long run, and that will only give fuel for the terrorists," said a spokesman for the mainstream Sunni Iraqi Islamic party.

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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0523-02.htm

Published on Monday, May 23, 2005 by the New York News Day / Long Island

A Violent Cycle in Iraq

Retaliatory Killings, Mainly Involving Shias and Sunnis, Threaten to Throw Country into Deadly Civil War

by Mohamad Bazzi

BEIRUT, LEBANON -- The signs of sectarian warfare are everywhere in Iraq these days: clerics assassinated outside their mosques, dozens of execution victims turning up in ditches and car bombers inflicting heavy casualties on the country's Shia Muslim majority.

Nearly four months after Iraq's election, when millions of Iraqis defied insurgent threats by voting for a new parliament, sectarian violence now threatens to drag the country into civil war. Most victims so far have been Shias targeted by Sunni insurgents. But the recent discoveries throughout Iraq of more than 50 bodies - men from both sects, apparently abducted and executed - highlight a new problem: a wave of retaliatory killings between Sunnis and Shias.

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We are at a moment of extreme danger. There is a level of sectarian tension that is unrivaled in Iraq's modern history.

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[EVDebs]

1. So it's Shia and Kurd vs. Sunnis at the I'm OK You're OK Corral

[converted_democrat]

2. Iraq... The next American Colony..........

[understandinglife]

3. Further evidence of Bu$h's imperialistic regime; the former "America"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3708092&mesg_id=3708092

What we must make happen:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3688434#3690417

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[G_j]

9. =:

[dave502d]

4. Civil War is what the Neo Cons want.

B* guy lost the elections so have a Civil War and give arms to
the side you want to win.

[leftofthedial]

5. all according to plan

the PNAC plan

[Karenina]

6. Is this it?

http:/www.newamericancentury.org

[Just Me]

7. The "plan" includes a NO EXIT STRATEGY eg there forever.

Of course, BushCo and the neoCONs lied about that intention just like they lie about everything they have intended and do intend.

Fuckin' monsters!!!

[G_j]

8. that would be the one n/t