not exactly what I meant, but ok. I should have said non-U.S. territory. > >> Can anyone think of other places the U.S. has totally evacuated > after a long-term military presence? > > South Dakota? > > - Jim > > > Robert Munn wrote: > > >No surprise that we're building long-term bases in Iraq. We we asked > to vacate Saudi Arabia, Kyrgyzstan is asking us to leave, Qatar is an > unknown in my mind, and Turkey screwed us in 2003. (Well, they screwed > themselves out of $10 billion, but it's all about us, right? ;-) ) > > > >I think it has always been in the Pentagon's plan to establish > long-term bases in Iraq. Every place we have ever fought a significant > action, we have established long-term bases. And we have a habit of > not vacating. Ever. The places I can think of that we have totally > vacated: > > > >- Phillipines (by request) > >- Saudi Arabia (by request) > >- Vietnam (by U.S. decision to abandon the South Vietnamese) > >- France? (I'm not sure we ever had long-term bases there after > WWII) > > > >Can anyone think of other places the U.S. has totally evacuated after > a long-term military presence? > > > > > > > > > > > > > >>That's nice. We're going through some nasty BRAC changes around > here > >>(one of the region's biggest employers is a Nuke shipyard nearby), > yet > >>we have shitloads of money to build bases in Iraq. > >> > >>Fuckin' A bubba > >> > >>Dana wrote: > >> > >> > >>>the US is building 20 "enduring bases" in Iraq to the tune of some > $200 million > >>> > >>>by the way, this is not a quizz, it's a question. These are > factoids > >>>gleaned from sources I believe in enough to ask the question but > not > >>>enough to accept as fact yet. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>-- > >>================================================================= > >>Ray Champagne - Senior Application Developer > >>CrystalVision Web Site Design and Internet Services > >>603.433.9559 > >>www.crystalvision.org > >>================================================================= > >> > >> > > >
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