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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (109910)8/4/2003 1:56:50 PM
From: Noel de Leon  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
But it will become "an army of permanent occupation." There is no way that the US can establish a Iraqi/ME base and control oil resources without being an army of permanent occupation. It may be with the accept of a new Iraqi government but it will be a permanent arrangement, or at least until the huge budget deficit catches up with Bush II.

You almost got it right in your last sentence; "But the US is a conquering power with an army of occupation. It just cannot afford to be seen as an army of permanent occupation."

It just cannot afford to be an army of permanent occupation.
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