Saddam's Palace May Be U.S. Embassy Site

[Khephra]

By JIM KRANE
Associated Press Writer

December 11, 2003, 3:42 PM EST


BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. bombs never hit Saddam Hussein's grandiose presidential palace in Baghdad, making its ample meeting rooms and vast conference tables an ideal headquarters for U.S.-led occupation authorities after the war.

Now the building -- the physical seat and biggest symbol of Saddam's 23-year dictatorship -- is the likely site for the next U.S. Embassy in Iraq, U.S. officials in Washington and Iraq said this week.

more.........

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-iraq-new-embassy,0,2728900.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

[Papa]

1. This is a stupid stupid idea.

That palace belongs to the people of Iraq, not the USA. It should be open to the public so they can be reminded of how Saddam lived and how they lived......or used for Iraqi government purposes (if they ever get back on their feet), we should not be putting or embassy in there. very stupid idea. If the shoe were on the other foot, would we want an occupier to use the white house as their embassy?

[Racenut20]

2. Dumbest thing we have done so far was to occupy that Palace.

[AlabamaYankee]

3. The malAdministration is absolutely blockheaded

Time and again they have ignored thepowerful symbolism of what they do. Establishing the embassy in the former seat of power sends evrybody the strong message that all the U.S. has done is replace Saddam. Same stuff, different leader.

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. Heck - I think it's VERY appropriate - HQ for a dictator ! USA or Saddam

. . doesn't seem to be a whole lot of difference ?

. . lt's see

- the USA has killed over 1,000 civilians per month, and not even political adversarys !

- just kids, women and families

- the USA imprisons people with no charges or trials

- the Iraqis are running out of gas

(? - THIS didn't happen under Saddam?)

- The Iraqis are haveing a hard time just getting Electricity

(? - this wasn't like this before they got "liberated" ?)


and the INVADERS are lounging around in the Palace

very fitting indeed

and the Iraqis DO notice

what an insult to the Iraqis,

AND

let's not forget,

making themselves one heck of a target !!

[tom_paine]

6. I agree, Canuck, very fitting for the Imperial Palace of Freedomstan

Yeah, we sure "liberated" those Iraqis, eh?

And yes, it is grotesque and disgusting, but a very fitting symbol for Imperial Amerikan rule...

Pathetic. I remember when America was the Leader of the Free World.

But Imperial Amerika isn't even a member of the Free World.

[ithacan]

15. right, this is ABSOLUTELY appropriate

these guys are working on subconscious levels here, and recognize that in fact they are little different from Saddam -- who by the way they supported fully under Reagan and Bush I.

[corporatewhore]

5. I talked with some one

who just came back as a part or Occupation wacth and he said bremmer had a lobster party for senior officals in saddams palace for the fourth of julywhile the iraqis and the army grunts were without basic nesscesities

[tom_paine]

7. Sounds about right for the Imperial Viceroy

Unsurprising that they are behaving like French aristiocrats, circa 1785.

That is EXACTLY what they are...well, they're not French, but otherwise...

[Minstrel Boy]

10. the mask has been off for a long time

The United States is ruled by a predator class, and the predators don't care who knows it, least of all Iraqis. They believe nothing and no one is capable of challenging their authority. They've arrived, and not just in Baghdad.

Occupying the palace, dismissing international law with regards to foreign contracts: these are not miscalculations. The new American predators want to be regarded as imperial masters. They've been dreaming of this day for a long time.

[eridani]

8. Meet the new boss--same as the old boss

Or, as they often say in Baghdad these days "Out goes the apprentice, in comes the master."

[TankLV]

9. Why don't we just paint a big red target on it w/the words "bring 'em on"

while we're at it!

I nominate bunkerboy and his dick to be the 1st ambassadors!

Condi & Colin can be the newly refurbished flanking lawn jockies on each side of the entrance!

[saigon68]

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Note: \\and to think, I'd seen it all

[Kosmos Mariner]

11. Unreal!

This administration is clueless. Nothing like taking up a roost in the biggest symbol of a ruthless dictator! Give it to a new Iraqi government? Nah, screw 'em! Brig 'em on! I feel sorry for State Department staff that will have to work there.

:nuke:



:dem:

[Judi Lynn]

12. Shabby, shabby, shabby. Laughable. Coarse. Vulgar. Stupid.

Very consistant with everything else they've done. The only people in the world who aren't horrified, sickened, and embarrassed would have to be the right wing lunatic fringe which occurs in almost every country, like cancer.

And to think John Dean told Nixon, "There's a cancer on the Presidency." Hmmmmm.

This pResidency IS the cancer.

[JackSwift]

13. They know exactly what they are doing

They know that choosing a palace, rather than an administration building or army compound says that they are in charge of the seat of power.

They do it for domestic consumption for red meat to the "know-nothing" crowd.

And they love pissing our allies off. It destroys internationalism, which means decades of arms races to come.