On AlterNet: permanent bases
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "permanent bases"
Phyllis Bennis, Foreign Policy in Focus. October 27, 2008.
Whatever the U.S.-Iraqi "agreement" ends up looking like, it is unlikely to have much of an effect on the occupation.
Anthony Arnove, Huffington Post. July 30, 2008.
President Bush, Nuri al-Maliki, Barack Obama and John McCain seem to have reached a common consensus on Iraq.
Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!. June 16, 2008.
Veteran reporter Patrick Cockburn broke the story of Bush's secret Iraq plan. He explains its terrible implications for Iraqi sovereignty.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. June 15, 2008.
In the last five-plus years, untold billions of taxpayer dollars have been spent on the construction and upgrading of permanent bases.
Gareth Porter, IPS News. June 13, 2008.
American promises made to the Iraqi government on the question of military bases have been revealed as carefully-worded ruses.
Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet. December 4, 2007.
With Bush's November 26, 2007 announcement that the United States and Iraq were negotiating a permanent "security relationship," his lies have been exposed.
Faiz Shakir, Think Progress. September 10, 2007.
Constructed with slave labor, Baghdad will host one of the "largest and costliest" embassies in the world.
Joshua Holland, Raed Jarrar, AlterNet: PEEK. June 8, 2007.
Jarrar and Holland: Just a few more words about permanent bases.
Adil E. Shamoo, The Baltimore Sun. March 22, 2007.
The United States is building a massive embassy complex in the heart of Baghdad that is already becoming a symbol of America's imperial ambitions in the Middle East.
