Comments for No Exit: The Baker Commission and the Trap of Reality at http://atlanticfreepress.com , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://atlanticfreepress.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:16:39 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/214-no-exit-the-baker-commission-and-the-trap-of-reality.html#comment-160 trying to find someone to blame, when you obviously have already, is pointless. - shades Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:13:14 +0100 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/214-no-exit-the-baker-commission-and-the-trap-of-reality.html#comment-158 In early 2003, the US began construction of at least four permanent major bases in Iraq. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0811F9395E0C738EDDAD0894DB404482 These are on the order of other giant but semi-secret desert bases like that in Qatar which can be seen by satellite imagery. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/2181591.stm Whoever controls these assets has control of access to petroleum stores throughout the region. The new, state-of-the-art US embassy complex is slated for completion in 2007. It covers 105 acres - more than twice the size of Vatican City. These multi-billion dollar installations cannot just be pushed off a carrier deck and left to rust at the bottom of the South China Sea as when we sailed away from the detritus of our last bug-out. The winner of the 2008 election will probably be the second US president to use nuclear weapons. This time to keep US-built fortifications out of the hands of whoever emerges from the Iraqi Civil War. The monumental waste will be of historic proportions and will signal the end of our meaningful participation in international affairs. We'll be viewed as a dangerous mad dog which is chasing its tail in the middle of Main Street while awaiting the coup de grace. The Chinese will take a hit as they sell off their American debt instruments but the world will agree that somebody had to take charge and put us out of our misery. - Davidco Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:30:02 +0100 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/214-no-exit-the-baker-commission-and-the-trap-of-reality.html#comment-157 So I have to face them alone? We're not in Iraq to win anything; we're there to steal control of their oil. You seem to think we plan to give over control of the oil to some Iraqi set of puppets and then "do deals" with them. Fuggedaboudit; it's our oil now and we do what we want with it. If it wasn't going to be that way, then we'd have made a deal with the UN to back our play, but we shut the UN out completely because we didn't want them dabbling in our oil business in Iraq. And again, what the Democratic run Congress tries to do won't matter a whit; "Stay the course," means "steal oil," and since that is the ONLY reason we EVER had for an Iraq adventure, we will STAY THE COURSE forever, or at least until the world gangs up on us and forces us out of Iraq altogether as the Nazis were forced out of France and Italy and North Africa and the places they went to steal. - SamSnedegar Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:25:52 +0100