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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>IF we are invited to stay in Iraq with bases it
will have more to do with the anger that the Iraqs are feeling toward other
local contries for sending in insurgents and keeping peace from coming to Iraq.
This is so much more than oil, bases or anything else you can come up with and
it is horrible that you don't know that or all the good things that are
happening.</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=sunilramalingam@hotmail.com
href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com">Sunil Ramalingam</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, August 05, 2005 2:00
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] long-term
bases</DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>Here's an Asia Times Online article on long-term bases in
Iraq. </DIV>
<DIV class=RTE> </DIV>
<DIV class=RTE><A
href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GH06Ak02.html">http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GH06Ak02.html</A></DIV>
<DIV class=RTE> </DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>Since I've long thought that the establishment of a permanent
presence in Iraq to replace our Saudi bases was one of the most important real
reasons for the war, I think the writer is brilliant. </DIV>
<DIV class=RTE> </DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>Sunil</DIV></DIV>
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