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To: goldstategop
We'll have a continuing presence there

Maybe, but not as we are now--the occupying power conducting some governmental functions and fighting Iraqi insurgents & terrorists. We may keep an element there to deter the neighbors and/or to serve as a base for other ops in the region--there's been discussion about that with a couple old airbases in the desert. In Germany & Japan, we haven't been occupiers for a long time, but we use the bases there essentially as forward outposts for our military to put us closer to the action. That may also happen in Iraq, but it is a substantially different purpose than what we are doing now. My guesstimate!

8 posted on 01/23/2005 4:53:57 AM PST by mark502inf
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To: mark502inf

The Left only "sees" problems.

The Right only sees solutions.


13 posted on 01/23/2005 5:14:35 AM PST by JustDoItAlways
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