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Horse with no Name

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Thu Sep-13-07 08:46 PM
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The million-dollar question

Where did the money come from to build this base?
The Democrats only allocated money for the troops.
I guess the hard answer would have to be that they stole the money allocated to the troops--by not giving them the armor, etc--that they needed.
That should be it.
Game over.

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rusty quoin

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Thu Sep-13-07 08:48 PM
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1. That missing 8 billion would have helped a bit.

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Sparkly

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Thu Sep-13-07 08:48 PM
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2. My question was about the expensive embassy...

Not the funding for it, but "How long before it gets blown up?"

Without a government there to even deal with, why on earth are they spending a small fortune on building an embassy?

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Thu Sep-13-07 09:12 PM
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4. Yeah, but where did the funding come from? And you're right -

it will be blown to pieces and we will have to start all over again. They are trying to bankrupt us and the dimson is going right along with it - he doesn't care - he got his.

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Thu Sep-13-07 09:07 PM
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3. I think the horse has left the barn...

Chicago Tribune March 23, 2004
14 `enduring bases' set in Iraq
Long-term military presence planned
In-Depth Coverage
By Christine Spolar
Dollar figures have not been released. The Defense Department plans to build the bases under its own contracts separate from the State Department and its Embassy in Baghdad.
Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the head of coalition forces in Iraq, recently outlined a plan that would slice the current Coalition Provisional Authority into pieces after sovereignty is returned to Iraqis at the end of June.
The U.S. Embassy would absorb some coalition workers as Embassy personnel; the Defense Department would take others. Its workers would direct most of the major contracts connected to the $18 billion allocated for Iraq reconstruction, military planners said.
The Program Management Office, the agency that has been doling out the cash, will remain under the Defense Department.
"It was a significant win," one military planner said. "In terms of controlling the money, Defense is in control."
http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2004/040323-enduring-bases.htm

Extended presence of U.S. in Iraq looms large
$1 billion for construction of American military bases and no public plans
Updated: 9:11 a.m. ET March 21, 2006
BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq - The concrete goes on forever, vanishing into the noonday glare, 2 million cubic feet of it, a mile-long slab that's now the home of up to 120 U.S. helicopters, a "heli-park" as good as any back in the States.
At another giant base, al-Asad in Iraq's western desert, the 17,000 troops and workers come and go in a kind of bustling American town, with a Burger King, Pizza Hut and a car dealership, stop signs, traffic regulations and young bikers clogging the roads.
At a third hub down south, Tallil, they're planning a new mess hall, one that will seat 6,000 hungry airmen and soldiers for chow
Are the Americans here to stay? Air Force mechanic Josh Remy is sure of it as he looks around Balad
“I think we’ll be here forever,” the 19-year-old airman from Wilkes-Barre, Pa., told a visitor to his base..

The swimming pool at Balad air base, as seen through the window of a Black Hawk helicopter, 44 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, on Aug. 25, 2005
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11072377

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