Also Titled, "A Few Things That I Learned About Iraq from Ted Koppel Last Night"
Ted Koppel appeared for a special report on Brian William's show Rock Center last night. It it he presented a report on his visit to Basra's consulate, just being completed with over 1,500 known u.s. private contractors to stay behind after the troops leave at the end of this month, (nobody knows how many unofficial contractors will stay behind). There will be over 17,000 u.s. contractors left behind in Iraq after the military leaves.
The consulate building is being finished with MASSIVE rooftop platforms designed to protect against rocket attacks.
Videos are provided below, with much link manipulation to properly embed them, just so you know. So you can get really
A: Pissed Off
B: Sad about what happened in Iraq (oh and is still happening)
C: Smug because you knew this all already and even tried to stop it in some way but, of course, our current oligarchical state of democracy totally prevented anybody from really doing anything about it because Haliburton and Standard Oil said so. . .
source of videos below
This is where I saw the consulate being built, where I learned that there have been at least 1,500 contractor deaths in Iraq since 2003 (probably alot more that aren't talked about) that "America is certainly NOT leaving Iraq" and a running list of special operations and U.S. security agencies that will be leaving private contractors behind to run the show after the military leaves.
Hey Kiddies, can you say, "Empire"???
Good, I KNEW you could. . .
This is where I learned about Iraq's largest oil field, about 1.5% of the total world's known reserves, where I learned that, even now, the U.S. is setting up the drums of war for a conflict with Iran, That our massive troop buildup in the regions outside of Iraq are being made in the potential eventuality of our forward bases in Iraq being overrun by Iranian "backed" (sympathetic?) forces and that Ted Koppel really doesn't want to talk about the past but can pretty much say for certain that now,
"It was all about the oil"