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the assassination of a palestinian resistance leader sends rockets flying over the border. i'll be back with more news stories when half an hour from now in the meantime it's a special report for you standing army that takes a look at how american military bases shaped the lives of millions and over one hundred countries where they're based. this place. well how they get the money to make them and who's giving it to them and why to protect us from. these are all questions that somebody like obama should put out even though it just didn't happen. as it was designed. and those bases just came along like you know some terrible cancer.

when you see how much money is at stake when in the operations that go on every day it's phenomenal the number of flights to take off from katrina air force base every single day involved just that one base in that one country on one day one have been filed thousands of gallons of jet fuel. to repair and maintenance and parts for those aircraft the rationale for these bases is that they're continually practicing and training and using the equipment and running the personnel through their cases and and feeding them and and so on and that is an incredibly expensive operation this is what. the president has in our it was warning against in his farewell address and nine hundred sixty one where he invented the phrase military industrial complex needing hidden power power that was not really under the

supervision of congress that. and that was often out of control represented private interests rather than the national interest i'm sorry to say that we in america did not pay attention to the warning he gave it gave to us and today it's close to out of control. the united states consumes one fourth of the world's oil every day more than any other country far more than any other country and the u.s. department of defense alone consumes this much petroleum is sweden does on a daily basis that's a huge amount that has to be procured day in day out three hundred sixty five days a year. to safeguard their oil the united states must have some capacity to

protect it and in this country that job has been given to the military. and the military must have bases naval bases air force bases and army bases in the areas where the oil is located or along the supply routes. if you look at the map collectively there is an almost contiguous strain. oh of u.s. military bases from poland to pakistan in this really strategic middle ground between the emerging economic competitors of the united states the european union on one hand and china and japan on the other the us has a formal policy of maintaining military dominance of the persian gulf area it's called a card a doctrine you have to president jimmy carter he said protection of the flow of

persian gulf oil is of vital interests of the united states and to protect that flow will use any means necessary including military force to there and he said we will need military bases in the persian gulf area and he established military bases to support this policy of protecting the flow of persian gulf oil and then wars were fought as well in line with their policy. and the west are united in pioneering a new front here of progress. serving the interests of the saudi arabs. serving the interests of the united states. and demonstrating the high caliber of the american system of free enterprise. system which from this new frontier is nothing under the trade of the world oil. one of the material that is making

a truly great contribution to our modern civilization. one of the reasons the reason for the primary one for the invasion of iraq is to ensure u.s. control of the major interviewer since the world in the embassy which means book inside baghdad is a city like no other in the city history of the world they're not building the embassy. in syria and iraq in the future positions around with an intention to leave their building the intention to maintain control.

since two thousand and three the u.s. has built dozens of military bases in iraq in two thousand and eight the u.s. and iraqi governments signed an agreement that states that all foreign troops should leave the country by two thousand and eleven. the agreement also says that the u.s. will not seek permanent basis or a permanent military presence in iraq. obama secretary of defense robert gates though has stated that even after two thousand and eleven he expects to see several tens of thousands of american troops as part of a residual force in iraq. hence many fear that iraq may be used as a launching pad for future wars in the region. over the fact bases created in response to an imminent threat have ended up becoming permanent jaeger garcia for example born in the context of the cold war is still operational and has played a crucial role in the iraq war but they say just

a minute they are. thirty fifty pretty steady you know the island is not safe for the people to go if they are to return they are but the thing is americans are living there and they have developed they are united and i even had like the island look i look like a little muni old and i'm eric i know enjoying their life so they are why should we not. have the right to go on our iran and enjoy the same way they are doing. so by many as the navy's best kept secret because of its remote location diego garcia is actually home to about three thousand residents at any given time there's also a unique assortment of quality of life opportunities to take advantage of on diego garcia the island's athletic center is open round the clock with

a wide range of workout equipment and a full sized gymnasium be sure to spend as much time as possible researching this informative website to help you prepare for what will certainly be a memorable assignment abroad. but hosting u.s. bases countries lose their saw for he in a number of ways you can do a very interesting kind of study in terms of the thickness of the sofa the status of forces agreement this is what's negotiated between the united states and so whole host nations and it determines. who can access the united states will have kind of political powers what happens when u.s. soldiers commit crimes in these countries and when you find is that the countries that have less power or leverage in relationship to the united states have much

thinner so for us in these cases in these countries you'll find that when u.s. soldiers commit crimes they're not held accountable when they're not tried under the law of the host nation other not put into prisons in the host nation often they just want out of the country back into the united states were deployed to war zone because as they say boys will be boys and these guys been trained to to be more aggressive and so they were aggressive you know. i know you like you like shot up with steroids you know i mean you're working out every day and you've got guns you've got stuff man and so when you leave off the base man i mean you're feeling pretty good about yourself you know i mean you feeling like you're

a tough guy you could get anybody you know but so coming into town with that sort of attitude of getting kind of drunk and is someone looking at you the wrong way you know you does not know how long you know when you know you were so do your marines i mean they like that stuff the military likes that stuff they may say well we don't want our guys breaking local more wars and causing problems for the local people pull. is this garbage i mean if that's the case then you don't let us off the base you let us off the base is going to be issues. i heard on the news one day about they ok now and girls had been raped by united states military men and i was really upset over this because. i remember how

we treat sort of treated the okinawan people when i was here as a set as an eighteen year old and eventually some of peace activists got in touch with me and they had a contact here in okinawa and when they found out that i had been stationed here they left the base people here know that there was an exploration who was stationed here who was doing a piece work now in america and so they invited me to come back to do so we took lectures so that was one nine hundred ninety six and that's when i came back and as we moved around the ireland and i saw the bases were still here i just couldn't believe it. it's almost like a cancer here for these people since the into world war two the spaces have been here.

this is something americans should know what happens when we open bases in other people's countries were kind of problems as it saw or does it cause of more problems and i think it does i think people and i think people get really angry you know at that this idea that we are policing the world we have a right to put bases anywhere we want we don't have foreign bases in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in in for us our base is a fine bit of the noise is our noise it doesn't bother us at all because they're our bases but for other people it's a real problem. where they know my dinner and this is a list of the crimes and accidents caused by the u.s. military in okinawa because the accidents are very frequent this ticketed

along. these are just a few minute and i just didn't have time to write the moment down. among a lot of other. people see all the muppets that there was a. baby here is a map of the base as you can see it's right in the middle of the city.

on. this elementary school stands only three hundred yards away from the base and here we are inside the so-called clear zone where the planes take off and land this group of twenty four that's why the aircraft fly solo and even the helicopters little problem you're right sometimes they are so close we can see the pilots face . fighting the noise is terrible they fly old a lot nonstop. some cry in the middle of the night they go

on and get better and some even stops coming to school. we are here to say the chancellor won't accept any more military bases he won't accept any more war machines on it slams three feet up therefore we say no to all

military facilities could be added to those that come in arms we say go home. in two thousand and seven the us revealed its plans for a new military base in the chance of italy just a few miles away from the city's historical center the chance of already hosts a u.s. military base because that might add italy come to the southern european task force and one of ten major u.s. bases in italy area designated for the new base is the exhibition airport. the plans for the new base include forty eight buildings over twenty acres of land i couldn't give a damn about the center because if it said you have four people if it said three or four are over the age of ninety and the base is a nothing of a base it doesn't generate smoke noise there are no planes landing so anybody a complacent from my point of view is

a dirty economy ok but why because the italian government the region the authorities have decided yes and they want to make a noise even though these are entirely harmless people it's like having tourists they don't have tanks they don't have helicopters they don't cry fair. place so it's purely ideological and negative by a bunch of people who don't do anything worthless. in april two thousand and eleven he had he is elected mayor of beach and so the promise of holding a referendum on a new base it is said to be held on october fifth but just a few days before the italian supreme court blocks the referendum. despite the court's decision the citizens of the chancellor decide to hold an autonomous referendum and on october fifth one thousand five percent of the participants vote

against in a place that. i mean i don't want the americans in my town and this is a chance to say it out loud but that it's been almost seventy years since the end of the war and we still have occupying troops in our city. i despite the clear opposition of the people of the chance of the italian government gives the us the green light to go ahead with a new base. it's not unusual for the normal democratic process to be subverted when it comes to military bases most bases are in fact covered by secret treaties between the u.s. and host nations in italy's case this is the one nine hundred fifty for us it's an eye lateral agreement never make public nor ratified by the time and.

i another truck is arriving let's try to stay together. open the gates move you're breaking the special law on us military bases. but if you're going to do it i don't. want you whatever you want i don't you know

why we struggle like this president of a colonel you understand how we feel free we are going to go there if you're a victim we're not even if the american and japanese governments have bullied as for years already similar to how we ever killed an american i remember. your various girls have been great out of planes and helicopters have repeatedly crashed . how this is what these bases have brought us kind of they have oppressed us for sixty two better years someone is great if they will never grow up. we realize you're only doing your job i don't know but ours is a historical survey. we will pass this legacy on to future generations. elementary school you're taught the declaration of independence and if you're paying attention all that is taught you'll be taught that it says that. the king george the third kept among us standing armies in times of peace that

committed abuses and usurpations of missiles and i was a him make up that this was a recent of clear independence from britain even to go to war was. was was. was was was bombers alexa was hailed by many in the world as the beginning of a political phase radically different from that of the bush administration and in many ways it has been by the ever growing military budget the escalation of the war in afghanistan and the uncertainty surrounding the fate of the us bases in iraq and the plans for a new military bases in a number of countries show how hard it is for this or any other president to

challenge those policies that benefit the military industrial complex and perpetuates us had germany over the rest of the world. the us must now choose what it best in the country's dwindling resources to strengthen social and democratic institutions or will it continue to fuel this parasitical complex that by definition can only produce new weapons and new wars. pulled out you know it that's a that's my land over there to just give it a more. so not a chill i hope to get it back one is a hurry because the support that you're. in the known as i do use the land to cool lots of white radish i cannot wear them not enough so that i could grow millions of them and that little space or not i will let you work it out of your can and i would then distribute them freely to the people of okinawa in the name of peace

cannot touch your ideas shot at. them moment there are no threat i took their. own life we all stay united in the struggle and i'm confident we can prevail. not i won't let her or if we don't speak out against the festival or lance we will never be able to change the world to see. how difficult it was about her none of which are here to torture. and it's about we have to keep our camp and. that's the only way we can prevail what they are is the. biggest strength. heidi in our path as one of resistance if not terrorism.

we're here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody regardless of what it would they are and to make sure that people have the freedom of movement because can go to school . and go to work and people can sleep safely and we would like to see kosovo develop and continue to grow and there will be a point where before it's no longer needed and we look forward to getting. requests any of thing else to get everything you need.

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