It’s the bases, stupid
“There was never a plan to leave Iraq because there is no intention to leave Iraq. We (the Americans) are currently building 14 bases there. Dick Cheney can’t imagine giving up that oil. The military can’t imagine giving up those bases. That’s why they can’t come up with a plan to leave.”
Chalmers Johnson, author of Sorrows of Empire, in LA Weekly, July 6 2004
