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-- from Times Online
The New Embassy Compound (NEC) in Baghdad's Green Zone is an undeniable symbol, blatantly broadcasting to the world the main purpose of the war -- to use Iraq as a compliant permanent military base for American control of Middle East oil and geopolitical location. With its unprecedented 104-acre size, $750 million construction cost, $1 billion estimated annual operating cost, fortified isolation, and connectivity to "enduring" military bases, it is nonfunctional as a normal embassy and clearly designed as a military command and control center. And "protecting" it has become the "reason" given by presidential candidates for continuing to occupy Iraq into the future. For a more detailed perspective on the NEC, see our background description. Information on this Site This site provides details about the End The War First (ETWF) strategy and the New Embassy Compound in Baghdad. It also makes available background documents and up-to-date articles of news and analysis that provide support for the ETWF strategy by illustrating the necessity of ending the war as quickly as possible, rather than letting it continue into next year and the next administration. These documents highlight the true aims of the war/occupation, the damaging effects of the war on both the military and foreign policy of the U.S. and on the situation in the Middle East, and ongoing administration policy moves aimed at making disengagement efforts by the next administration difficult or impossible. This information is accessible via either
Why Now? The following current news articles underscore the importance of ending this war quickly, far before the election and the end of the Bush administration: Iraqis Condemn American Demands, June 11.
Bush 'plans Iran air strike by August', May 28. |
The Strategy
Embassy De-Fund Strategy -- The strategy introduced below makes it possible for Congress to bypass the Bush/Republican obstruction that has prevented Congress from following through on the 2006 mandate to end the war. The strategy is designed to end the war politically -- quickly, responsibly and honorably -- to achieve the only possible victory by the following steps, which are linked to detailed explanations on the Strategy Summary page:
A responsible and honorable ending of Bush's Iraq War must include a massive post-war job-creating rehabilitation effort (analogous to the post-WWII Marshall Plan in Europe), managed by a coalition of the UN and Middle East neighbors, and funded largely by part of the "peace dividend" of American troop withdrawals, to cut the massive unemployment which is a primary cause of the corruption and violence in Iraq. |
Contact: info (at) endthewarfirst.org
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