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It was the spring of 2003 during the American-led invasion of Iraq. I was in second grade, living on a U.S. military base in Germany, attending one of the Pentagon's many schools for families of servicemen stationed abroad. One Friday morning, my class was on the verge of an uproar. Gathered around ...

Originally posted at TomDispatch. In January 2004, Chalmers Johnson wrote “America’s Empire of Bases” for TomDispatch, breaking what - Patterson Deppen for Antiwar.com Original

>> so it's unfortunate when -- the intelligence failure implies that the intelligence community didn't expect this to unfold or they didn't tell anybody. neither of those cases happened. the intelligence community has been looking at various scenarios. how many troops are there, what is the stability of the government, and the circumstances we've seen over the past few months, not days but months, starting with the major base closure, and then bagram, which really ended the presence of all u.s. military and intelligence platforms, this was anticipated, and it was made clear to policymakers tha...