{"id":2167,"date":"2007-06-14T12:54:28","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T18:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2021-05-20T19:39:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T01:39:27","slug":"permanent-bases-the-world-over-behold-the-american-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/permanent-bases-the-world-over-behold-the-american-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Permanent Bases the World Over: Behold the American Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com<\/p>\n

Finally, the great American disconnect may be ending.<\/p>\n

Only four years after the invasion of Iraq, the crucial facts-on-the-ground might finally be coming into sight in this country — not the carnage or the mayhem; not the suicide car bombs or the chlorine truck bombs; not the massive flight of middle-class professionals, the assassination campaign against academics, or the collapse of the best health-care service in the region; not the spiking American and Iraqi casualties, the lack of electricity, the growth of Shia militias, the crumbling of the “coalition of the willing,” or the uprooting of 15 percent or more of Iraq’s population; not even the sharp increase in fundamentalism and extremism, the rise of al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the swelling of sectarian killings, or the inability of the Iraqi government to get oil out of the ground or an oil law, designed in Washington and meant to turn the clock back decades in the Middle East, passed inside Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone — No, none of that.<\/p>\n

What’s finally coming into view is just what George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, the top officials of their administration, the civilian leadership at the Pentagon, and their neocon followers had in mind when they invaded and occupied Iraq in 2003.<\/p>\n

(Original Article)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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