Good old fashioned colony building

We're pulling 700 troops out of Iraq. People are saying that this is going to lead to a timetable of withdrawal, but I doubt the American government is going to let us leave. They're in there for the long haul. Just look at the 'reconstruction' thats been happening. While ordinary Iraqis are still struggling for electricity, clean water and petrol, a huge 'embassy' is being constructed in Iraq. This structure will be completely self-sufficient(with its own electricity and water supplies of course), cover an area of around 21 square miles and have walls up to fifteen feet thick-a fortified headquarters for the US in Iraq. Combine this with the two bases Camp Liberty and Camp Victory which boast swimming pools, restaurants, movie theatres and electrical goods stores among other things- essentially military towns for the US- and the idea that America will abandon these multi-billion dollar facilities seems fanciful. America's most recent National Security Strategy Overview, from 2002 http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nssall.html, states among aother things the need for permanent bases beyond Western Europe and Northeast Asia to dissuade potential adversaries from building a military to rival America's power.
George Bush claims that troops will withdraw once the Iraqi military 'stands up' but there is a big problem here at least in the short term. America has, however inadvertantly, created a pro-Iranian government in Iraq-the likelyhood of them endowing this government with a functioning military at the moment would be suicidal.
Both America and Britain say they will stay as long as they are wanted, that they are in Iraq 'by invitation' but its increasingly obvious that Iraqis want them out. A great many Iraqis blamed the Samarra mosque bombing on the coalition, Shias and Sunnis marched together against the occupation after the blast. This seems a lot less fanciful if you take into account the fact that last year two British SAS men disguised as Arabs were arrested by Iraqi police while driving a car full of bombs and detonators. A lot of press was given to the subsequent raid by the British army to rescue these men from the people they were supposed to be allied with, but there hasn't been much speculation about what these two special forces men were actually doing driving around with a load of bombs. Its obvious that covert operations are underway in Iraq, and it does make sense for America and Britain to want sectarian conflict. If Iraqis are fighting each other they are less likely to be fighting their occupiers and therefore endangering America's permanent colony in the Middle East.