And it ` s likely to become one of four "superbases" on the planet, where all of the U.S. forces will consolidate once they ` re off the front lines. ❋ Unknown (2007)
EmbassyPhoto: High traffic: Balad is one of the emerging 'superbases'Graphic: (text, photos) Building to Stay: A massive new U.S. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Tucked away in a rural no man's land 43 miles north of Baghdad, this 15-square-mile mini-city of thousands of trailers and vehicle depots is one of four "superbases" where the Pentagon plans to consolidate U.S. forces, taking them gradually from the front lines of the Iraq war. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But nobody has yet factored in how our "superbases" and "super embassy" are going to fare in the middle of a civil war. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Four "superbases" have been constructed as hubs of the ❋ Unknown (2011)
The huge military superbases in Iraq are of course permanent. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Certainly the additional 25,000 troops that the surge has brought to a few areas of Iraq—along with Gen. David Petraeus' more aggressive strategy of using them putting troops out on the streets instead of retreating to the superbases—have increased security in the areas they've been able to occupy. ❋ Stephen Retherford (2008)
Another period to lavishing stock Rumsfelds "permanent American superbases" with 100's of thousands of tons of soldier amenities and crap like complete Burger Kings and Video emporiums for "Morale Boosting". ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)
To say that the U.S. will maintain superbases in Iraq for 100 years but that those bases are "not permanent" could seem like hairsplitting. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The megalithic embassy in the Green Zone, and the half-dozen superbases, have been built to last, while "the building blocks of civil society" were less rigorously attended to. ❋ Unknown (2008)
While you are talking, the Vatican-sized embassy in Baghdad will be completed, and the superbases will go up. ❋ Unknown (2008)
You will soon be mortered and shells from them superbases dont worry about that ❋ Unknown (2006)
Four superbases, we were told in 2003, were to be built for Americans in Iraq, but now there are five or six. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Unfortunately Bush has no plans to leave Iraq until the oil contracts are signed up which was spose to happen in early 2006 hence theres no goverment in Iraq for the first 5 months as the iraqis do not want this to happen (Bushes plans are to sign up the oil contracts and hide in the superbases) ❋ Unknown (2006)
Did they get the moniker “superbases” from the fast food joints they inCORPORATE into the 21st century oil crusader lifestyle? ❋ Unknown (2006)
Unless Mark is right when he says those superbases will be launching pads for the invasion of Iran. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Life on the emerging Iraqi superbases is safer and easier than elsewhere in the country. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Only if the United States assumes a lower profile in Iraq — retreats to its four superbases and redoubles training of the Iraqi Army — will the jihadis begin to lose their new rallying cause. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Player 1: "Woah dude, why are you making that house so big?"
[Player 2]: "I'm making a [superbase], [I'm sick] of all those little houses" ❋ AlphaRaptor (2018)
