--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even then-Assistance SecDef Wolfwotize went into some detail about this as a side-benefit > of invading Iraq: we got access to bases elsewhere so we pulled them out of Saudi Arabia > (of course, this was the original justification for invading Iraq according to the neocon
> white paper: create a sympathetic Arab nation where we can base our troops to project > military power against China). > ************ It's more than 3900 miles to Beijing from Baghdad; meanwhile we have 47000 troops at a number of bases in Japan (Tokyo is 1300 miles from Beijing).
