From: John Cuccia 

On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 19:45:35 +0100, "Phil Payne"
 wrote:

>> > Ain't gonna happen. Thrown out is thrown out, to the very last man.
>>
>> Nah, we'll have permanent bases in the Kurdish region.  The US is
>> welcome there.
>
>No.  The West Germans were incredibly grateful to the Allies - and
>especially the Americans - for saving them from the Red Army.  Welcome
>friends. Something similar in South Korea, at least as far as the political
>leaders of the time were concerned.
>
>But neither local political force was at the time threatened internally.
>That's the problem in Iraq, and it's the same in the north.

I think the US is welcome in Kurdish regions, and I'm not sure there's a
serious internal threat in the north.  The Kurds have been working to make
sure they have population majorities in the areas abutting Arab-controlled
regions.

>> >And the 104-acre embassy won't last long, either.
>>
>> You're wrong about that.  There will be a US embassy in Baghdad.
>
>Yup, of course there will.  But it won't be 104 acres with a working
>population of 5,000 plus.  It will be the same size as the Iraqi embassy in
>Washington, give or take a square metre or two.

The 104-acre thing is a crazy idea anyway.    We sneer at Saddam for
his palaces, and then decide to build one ourselves.

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