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Old 06-09-2006, 06:13 AM
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If Iraq really has a sovereign government as Bush the Lame likes to chirp then if they ask us to git, we should git. But we won't.
The permanent military bases we are installing there speak louder than all the pious rhetoric that bounces out of Washington. Read this...
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No Permanent Bases: Passed Both Houses, Removed in Conference Committee
By David Swanson
When the House and the Senate pass similar but not identical bills, they create a conference committee to work out the differences. When they both passed amendments to the "emergency supplemental" spending bill stipulating that none of the money could be used to build permanent bases in Iraq, the conference committee, behind closed doors this week, resolved that non-difference by deleting it. (…)
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/11672
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