*Balad base: $228.7m (2005); requested $17.8m (2006)
*Al-Asad base: 2005 spending unknown; requested $46.3m (2006)
*Tallil base: $10.8m (2005); requested $110.3m (2006)
President Bush himself recently admitted US troops would probably be in Iraq when his successor takes office in early 2009, but the notion of a permanent presence is regularly rebuffed by the US government. In February, Mr Rumsfeld insisted it was "certainly not true".
Then why spend billions on "temporary installations?"
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