Iraq: The phony "withdrawal"
07/13/05
The neo-Jacobin spirit that animates those who relentlessly agitated for this war, far from being humbled by apparent failure, is instead emboldened. Having lied us into war, they are eager to do so again -- and this ambition is not necessarily inconsistent with a general drawdown in Iraq. Aside from that, however, the War Party has succeeded in winning a Middle East beachhead. The troop numbers may be reduced, but those remaining will retreat to permanent bases that are already being built. The American goal of establishing permanent bases in Iraq has not received the degree of attention required by the relative importance of the subject...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6639
from AntiWar.Com, by Justin Raimondo
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
The neo-Jacobin spirit that animates those who relentlessly agitated for this war, far from being humbled by apparent failure, is instead emboldened. Having lied us into war, they are eager to do so again -- and this ambition is not necessarily inconsistent with a general drawdown in Iraq. Aside from that, however, the War Party has succeeded in winning a Middle East beachhead. The troop numbers may be reduced, but those remaining will retreat to permanent bases that are already being built. The American goal of establishing permanent bases in Iraq has not received the degree of attention required by the relative importance of the subject...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6639
from AntiWar.Com, by Justin Raimondo
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 13. Jul, 16:12
