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| U.S. Mega-Bases in Iraq Make the News |
| 2008-06-17 |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #8 There's nothing "mega" about the examples: "added approximately 90,000 square feet of pavement to the airfield" That's equal to just two 50 ft by 900 ft runways. "constructed more than 25,000 square feet of living, dining and operations buildings" That's roughly equal to one building that's 80 ft by 100 ft by three stories -- a single suburban office building. "replaced approximately 30 cubic meters of concrete over newly installed power line cables." I believe at typical concrete truck carries about 5 to 8 cubic meters, so that's only about 4 to 6 truckloads. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2008-06-17 16:50 |
| #7 According to the CIA Factbook, Iraq has a land area of about 432,162 sq km. So we're building 58 mega-bases each 20 miles (32 km) around. Each base then is 64 sq km, thus 3,712 sq km total taken. That's about 0.86% of the land mass available. That's assuming that we're building 58 big bases, of course, as is claimed. No thoughts of perspective in that article, I suppose. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2008-06-17 16:02 |
| #6 Mathaba.net? Interesting that "Al Mathaba (meaning center) is the Libyan center for anti-imperialist propaganda which has funded third world guerilla groups. The Anti-Imperialism Center (AIC) - also known as Mathaba - is used by the Libyan Government to support terrorist networks and thus plays an important role in Qadhafi's terrorism strategy. Established in 1982 to support "liberation and revolutionary groups”, the AIC has sponsored a number of stridently anti-Western conferences in Tripoli." source probably a coincidence... |
| Posted by: Bobby 2008-06-17 12:30 |
| #5 Mr. Engelhardt, All our base are belong to us! Now sod off, tosser. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-06-17 12:13 |
| #4 What a friggen joke of an article. Goebbels woudl be proud of the hatred, vitrol and lies spewing forth from it. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-06-17 11:46 |
| #3 "This is the sort of thing you might expect at Bush-style offshore prisons or gulags or concentration camps." I'm glad to see the author is not biased or anything. Come On! Where are the gas chambers and ovens? Those guys are slipping up on their NAZI references. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2008-06-17 11:24 |
| #2 Iff BARACK becomes POTUS, guess should say SAYONARA to these sometime after Jan 2009??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-06-17 04:05 |
| #1 One would get the impression that Mr. Engelhardt is not happy that Bush is not following his (Mr. Engelhardt's) way of dealing with Iraq. /s off |
| Posted by: tipover 2008-06-17 02:20 |