U.S. building massive embassy in Baghdad

[sabra]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1107AP_Iraq_New_Embassy.html

U.S. building massive embassy in Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The fortress-like compound rising beside the Tigris River here will be the largest of its kind in the world, the size of Vatican City, with the population of a small town, its own defense force, self-contained power and water, and a precarious perch at the heart of Iraq's turbulent future.

The new U.S. Embassy also seems as cloaked in secrecy as the ministate in Rome.

"We can't talk about it. Security reasons," Roberta Rossi, a spokeswoman at the current embassy, said when asked for information about the project.

A British tabloid even told readers the location was being kept secret - news that would surprise Baghdadis who for months have watched the forest of construction cranes at work across the winding Tigris, at the very center of their city and within easy mortar range of anti-U.S. forces in the capital, though fewer explode there these days.

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"The presence of a massive U.S. embassy - by far the largest in the world - co-located in the Green Zone with the Iraqi government is seen by Iraqis as an indication of who actually exercises power in their country," the International Crisis Group, a European-based research group, said in one of its periodic reports on Iraq.

[TexasLawyer]

1. The Embassy and the "enduring" bases

are unpleasant reminders that we're in Iraq for good. There's no exit strategy because-- we're not exiting.

No wonder BushCo won't talk about the embassy and the massive military bases.

[Karenca]

2. terrible.....nt

[Karenca]

3. k & r eom

[Erika]

4. We will be there to control their oil until it's gone

That's what the war was all about. Just think, the Exxon retiring exec was paid $6,000 an hour.

That redistribution of our taxes to the globalists is what W is all about.

[quaoar]

5. The most important feature of this new embassy

Will be the roof. It will have to be strong enough to support the last helicopter as it lifts off with the last Americans.

[Erika]

8. Maybe they will take their country back from the empire

Something the American Indians weren't able to do.

[arewenotdemo]

9. you got that right

stupid...fucking...idiots

[rooboy]

6. Great.. .Baghdad gets its own Death Star.... n/t

[NYC]

7. ...self-contained power and water...

I think it's interesting that they feel they need this.

[Erika]

10. The $ we've spent shipping bottled water in for our troops

is far above the cost of building the infrastructure for
producing their own drinking water. This has been known for at least two years.

[pinniped]

11. I don't think the Iraqi people voted for this.

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[Kablooie]

12. Do you realize what this means?

This will obviously be the base of operations for the Neocon government to control the middle
east and all the oil it holds.

If they are setting up such a permanent base that means that they are
confident that America will continue to need and use this base after this administration leaves.

This of course is extremely unlikely because a Democratic administration will clearly not continue
the same government policies. So why are they building this?

The alternative is that this administration doesn't expect to leave. They plan to remain
in power indefinitely with no one able to drive them out.

Real Scary.

What the hell's going on behind that dark curtain?