Why Isn't It Troubling Congress, Or The American People, That Tax Dollars Are Being Used To Build Superbases In Iraq?

I am wondering where all the real outrage is in this country. For a while now, many of us knew that the United States was building super bases in Iraq. Hell, even I wrote about it here on January 4, 2006.

Now the government is slowly putting forth the meme that the United States will be a presence in Iraq for fifty years or more, likening it to our presence in Korea (which meme has been debunked by just about every blogger this side of the central time zone). Let's see ... first we had to invade Iraq because of 9/11, which of course had no relationship. Then it was because Saddam had those dastardly weapons of mass destruction, but heck, we would be in and out of Iraq in a couple of months and it won't cost the American people money because the Iraqi oil will pay for it. Of course, that was crap. Then it was we had to stay there to fight the insurgency, and once the government was formed, and properly elected by the people with their purple fingers, then we would be leaving. After that it was as Iraqi's stand up, the United States will stand down.

However, unbeknownst to the American public, Bush and his administration have been spending billions of tax payer dollars building bases, (five of them at the moment if you count the embassy in Baghdad), and none of them ordered by Congress or approved of by the American public! What's the whole point? Well, because Bush and his administration expected the invasion to be a cake walk and the oil ministry, which was the only building protected during the invasion, would simply turn over it's business to the big and strong Americans to run. American oil companies were already working on the privatization of the Iraqi oil, and contemplating the splits amongst themselves before they backed off of the project after witnessing the massive revolt of the Iraqi people (in the guise, of course, of "insurgency").

Congress has not approved spending on the bases, they are being done in secret and the American public is very much unaware of these bases. It is mind boggling the amount of money that is being poured into Iraq at the expense of our very own American people and on the heavily taxed backs of our middle class and poor.

And here I thought November 2006 was ushering in a new era of politicians who would not let Bush continue with this obscene war.

My mistake.

I'm mad as hell. Why isn't anyone else?