From: Ad 

John Cuccia wrote:
> 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.
>

Hum. That would rather contradict a "single & unitary Iraq".

>>>> 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.

Maybe they need to grow their own veg?

Adam

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