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Permanent U.S. Bases Mean Permanent Occupation

Comment by Larry Ross, November 23, 2006

This article is particularly good because of its analysis of the Washington establishment, the probable result of the Iraq Study Group, and comments about permanent U.S. bases in Iraq, and the amazing abdication of responsibility by the Mass Media of honest coverage of the war.

On the other hand the predictions could be wrong if the Bush Administration implements its plan to make war on Iran, and escalates that into a nuclear war on Iran, leading to a general war on Islamic countries.

The possible use of a 'False Flag' operation by the Bush Administration, to incriminate Iran and justify using nuclear weapons, must also be considered.

That would completely change the situation. If the world survived without an intercontinental nuclear war, Bush's popularity and power would be increased, so long as people believed the 'False Flag' fabrication that the U.S. had been attacked.

The article below shows the ISG are an establishment group, repeating Bush lies and assumptions. They are likely to dither and eventually send more U.S. troops to Iraq. The horror and destruction will continue, and a wider war will develop.

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Will Papa Bush's Old Pals Prolong the Iraq Occupation?

By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com, November 22, 2006

While everyone in Washington is treating Bush Senior's ally Robert Gates' Pentagon arrival and James Baker's Iraq Study Group report as godsends that will end the war in Iraq, it's quite likely that they will deploy more troops and stay there indefinitely.

Things are always complicated. In the Washington Post , for instance, James Mann, author of Rise of the Vulcans recently suggested that it was far "too simplistic" to claim "the appointment of Robert M. Gates to replace Donald Rumsfeld [represents] the triumph of Bush the Father's administration over Bush the Son's."

Still, I prefer the analysis of Post reporter (and author of Fiasco ) Thomas Ricks. When asked by the Post's media columnist Howard Kurtz whether a Newsweek headline, "Father knows best," was just "an easy, cheap Oedipal way for the press to characterize what's going on," Ricks replied: "Well, just because it's easy and cheap doesn't mean it's wrong."

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