Iraq Update: Who’s Holding Who?

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Did anyone else appreciate the utter irony of this shot in the Saturday NYT print edition — representing how American forces, in the middle of their otherwise sprawling Iraq military base, are suddenly the ones trapped or “fenced in” by the imminent prospect of shutting the place down?

As the U.S. mission has morphed a thousand times, “winning” has now been reduced to somehow getting rid of the 17,000 real and supposed evil-doers (held here and Camp Cropper) the military went through hell to capture in the first place.

from: A Puzzle Over Prisoners as Iraqis Take Control - (NYT)

(image: David Furst/AFP-Getty. May 2008.)

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lytom

It is a mistake, to think that US occupation forces are “trapped” or fenced in…
The leadership in the US government and military are planning more such things as expanding the war over the Iraq borders, and disregarding sovereignty of other countries. Most recent example is of US special forces invading and killing in Syria.
That will not stop with the elections!
jtfromBC

lytom your bang on,
- the real question is not
‘A Puzzle Over Prisoners as Iraqis Take Control’
- but
‘If the U.S. is ultimately leaving Iraq, why is the military building ‘permanent’ bases?’
http://www.fcnl.org/iraq/bases_text.htm
http://home.comcast.net/~sfs73/index.html MonsieurGonzo

No doubt Mr. Obama and/or the Pentagon will cast ‘withdrawal’ as some kind of ‘re-deployment’ strategy. But it is plain to see that whatever happens next will in reality be a hastily cobbled-together bailout plan : “Profit & Loss”, “Assets & Liabilities”… being all the same as some far away Great Game by any other name :-/
http://danielhumphries.typepad.com Daniel Humphries

Not to mention the double entendre on “U.S. Prisoners.”