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Politics : THE WHITE HOUSE
SPY 694.04+0.7%Jan 9 4:00 PM EST
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To: goldworldnet who wrote (7650)8/22/2007 12:06:01 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 25737
 
"we have influence enough now to replicate the scenario."

REALLY?

Then, let's *see it*!

I mean: They'd better shake a stick pretty fast and try to negotiate a TREATY, because I'm pretty sure that all the money we are spending in the Shia South and in Sunni West is pure WASTE and BOONDOGGLE... bases built in the South are likely to benefit Iran, while anything in the badlands/battleground of the West will be abandoned.

PS --- two other quick points:

1) We pay a LOT of MONEY to Japan for our bases there (and, every time the terms are renegotiated, the price rises higher and higher.)

2) When Iraq splits into three new countries: Shia Iraq, Kurdistan, and 'rump-Arabia' or a new 'trans-Jordan' in the West, ANY treaties that might have been signed with the 'Iraq' of today will be null and void for the new States (excepting the possibility that 'Shia Iraq' in the south may be considered the legal successor of today's Iraq... and the new nation of Kurdistan in the North will likely be the only successor State that is actually willing [indeed: eager] to have American troops based on it's land. But 'Sunni-West' and 'Shia-South'? They will ask/tell us to leave. Any money spent building bases there will simply go to benefit SOME OTHER COUNTRY.
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