"One of about 14 joint facilities that US officials say privately they would like to keep"
Strange how the number of bases corresponds to the number put out years ago during the Bush administration -- numbers that were pooh-poohed at the time with animated denials about "permanent bases" in Iraq!
"US wants Iraq base open past deadline; Sadr City facility considered key to curbing violence" by Chelsea J. Carter, Associated Press | June 4, 2009
BAGHDAD - The US and Iraqi militaries have tentatively agreed to keep open a joint base on the edge of Baghdad's Shi'ite slum of Sadr City, maintaining an American presence in a strategic area even after the June 30 deadline for US combat troops to pull out of the capital.
The base, Joint Security Station Commanche, is one of about 14 joint facilities that US officials say privately they would like to keep in flashpoint neighborhoods after the deadline.... The status of the troops left behind in Baghdad has been kept vague, probably to avoid embarrassing the Iraqi government, which has told its people that all combat forces will be out on time.
Oh, BULL-SHIT!
It is so the AMERIKAN GOVERNMENT can continue to BLOW FART MIST at the public about "withdrawal!"
Regardless of their formal status, all US troops in Iraq are armed and trained to fight. US officials have declined to say how many troops would stay behind under their plan.
A rose, by any other name.... Occupation Iraq: Non-Combat Combat
A series of deadly bombings in April and May cast doubt on Iraqi ability to maintain security and raised fears of a resurgence in violence after the US withdraws. Seven people were killed and 28 wounded when a bomb exploded last night in a tea shop in west Baghdad, police said....
Gee, CUI BONO, 'eh?
Please see: Tortured Logic and related links for why I no longer believe in "Al-CIA-Duh" or anything else the agenda-pushing, war-promoting, Zionist AmeriKan war press has to report about Muslims!!
Keeping any US troops in Baghdad is likely to draw criticism that the Americans are failing to live up to their commitment to leave the country by the end of 2011 as stated in the deal.
Followers of anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr opposed the security agreement when it was approved last year, saying it had loopholes for the United States to avoid the withdrawal timetable. Sadrist lawmaker Baha al-Aaraji said "the coming days will prove our reading of the agreement" that the "occupation forces will not withdraw...."
Isn't it SAD, America, that the "enemy" are the ones TELLING YOU the TRUTH in your jewspapers?
Brigadier General Mike Murray, a deputy commander of US forces in Baghdad, said Tuesday. said he believes insurgents will use the period after June 30 to test the capabilities of the Iraqi forces in Baghdad. "I expect violence to increase so they can make claims they chased us out of the cities," he said as US troops tore down blast walls and prepared to hand over another joint security station in eastern Baghdad.
Yeah, SO DO I, cui bono? I guess we will JUST HAVE to STAY, 'eh, 'murka?
Another joint US-Iraqi base on the edge of Sadr City will be closed later this month, Murray said. US commanders say Iraqi forces, particularly the army, have made huge progress as a fighting force but continue to face supply problems that make it difficult to operate effectively.
Why would they have supply problems? Aren't we helping them?
Where did all that WAR LOOT go?
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