Iraq: Future Forces

Parties Do Battle Over U.S. Forces’ Future In Iraq
(Washington Post)…Jonathan Weisman, June 12, 2008
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Congressional Democrats yesterday opened fire on comments from Republicans — including presumptive GOP nominee John McCain — that equate the U.S. military’s future in Iraq to the presence of U.S. bases in Germany, Japan and South Korea.

"It’s pretty clear their intentions are that we put in a basing system in Iraq that parallels the Korea-Japan history," said Sen. James Webb (D-Va.), who is pressing the administration to submit the agreements for Senate ratification.

"The difference is, Iraq is not Korea or Japan. . . . The history of every single outside occupation of Iraq over the last thousand years argues against that logic."