an Embassy comprised of 21 bldgs. - walled in and it's secret

[donsu]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060414/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_new_embassy_2


U.S. Building Massive Embassy in Baghdad

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.

-snip-

The embassy complex — 21 buildings on 104 acres, according to a U.S.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee report — is taking shape on riverside parkland in the fortified "Green Zone," just east of al-Samoud, a former palace of
Saddam Hussein's, and across the road from the building where the ex-dictator is now on trial.

-snip-

Higgins noted that large numbers of non-diplomats work at the mission — hundreds of military personnel and dozens of FBI agents, for example, along with representatives of the Agriculture, Commerce and other U.S. federal departments.

They sleep in hundreds of trailers or "containerized" quarters scattered around the Green Zone. But next year embassy staff will move into six apartment buildings in the new complex, which has been under construction since mid-2005 with a target completion date of June 2007.

-snip-

Original cost estimates ranged over $1 billion, but Congress appropriated only $592 million in the emergency Iraq budget adopted last year. Most has gone to a Kuwait builder, First Kuwaiti Trading & Contracting, with the rest awarded to six contractors working on the project's "classified" portion — the actual embassy offices.
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they may think they are protected in the Green Zone but DU blows in the wind. happy breathing.

maybe we should just stop paying taxes

[leftchick]

1. I bet it is Terhan's first Target

after the US strikes. Damn there are a lot of US tagets in Iraq within easy range of their missiles.

:nuke:

[Sarah Ibarruri]

11. Could you blame them? If Tehran gets hit, why wouldn't they? nt

[leftchick]

13. hell no I could not blame them!

The US is playing a very deadly game. A game they have no way to win.

[PetraPooh]

2. This type of thing has been bothering me since the beginning

of the invasion. Seems like when the bushies were demonizing Hussein, they often referred to his palaces, his strong arm tactics, he personal armies, not tending the needs of the civilians before gifting himself with awesome things. He we show up and do EXACTLY THE SAME THING! Plus even while they were saying it prior to the war, I was noticing that bush seemed to have many of the same "perks" he was accusing Hussein of and since then it has gotten much worse as far as citizens have rights to protest in proximity to events, being allowed into events, gosh I read a thread the other day about his path to an old folks home being blockaded with heavy earth moving equipment. SUCH HYPOCRISY!

[MADem]

10. One of his palaces is a MAJOR MWR facility

The swimming pool is a big hit....

They use another one nearby as a meeting place/billeting for bigwigs.

[FightingIrish]

3. It looks like the capitol of Bushistan (Iraq-Iran-Afghanistan)

It's on a scale more like the capitol of a world goevernment than an embassy in country with the population of California. If we knew more about those 21 buildings we would have some idea what they are really thinking. This is much more than an embassy.

[adriennui]

4. SIGH.

i just don't know what to say anymore. our economy is down the tubes, citizens working for lower wages, and we're building what is in essence a walled city in a country we pretty much destroyed.

i give up

[Oversea Visitor]

5. Looks like long haul

How long stay,
Hmm Vietnam me think 10 years and 58,000 dead
Iraq hmmm hard to say this months already 40

[Yoda Yada]

6. So, let's NOT keep it a secret anymore...

Make sure the American taxpayer knows exactly where their tax money is going. :mad: :mad: :mad:

If this complex is so far along, it was probably in the planning stages AT THE SAME TIME Bush started this war! :wtf:

It is interesting that "hundreds of trailers" were able to make it to the Green Zone and are now in use....yet the American citizens who survived Katrina still can't get the trailers they were promised. Sounds like Bush has MISPLACED his priorities...."BIG TIME".

What was Bush's decision-making process like?
"...let me see...trailers to Baghdad?...trailers to Louisiana?...trailers to Baghdad?...trailers to Louisiana?... well, I am the "War President", I'll go with Baghdad!":banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

Let's shout this one from the hilltops...we certainly won't get any help from the media.

[enid602]

7. embarrassement.

Just one more embarrassment when we have to abandon it. Hope it has a heliport.

[NNN0LHI]

8. We even let the new Iraq government live there too. How nice n/t

[tanyev]

9. Our American theocracy will need an international headquarters.

If the Pope gets his own city, there's no reason we can't have one.

[demosincebirth]

15. Come on! Whats that got to do with the Vatican?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

17. Well, the Vatican is a country inside another country.......

While this is a gigantic piece of America inside another country, and it's the size of the Vatican.

[donsu]

12. wonder if one of the 21 bldgs. is a church?

nt

[Jose Diablo]

14. I'd say this is to be the administrative center

for our new American territory and oil resource center, the MiddleEast Territory. I've heard there are also 14 military bases.

We're in there for good and contrary to what anyone says about motives being democracy for these people, Iraq has been conquered to provide a military launching pad to conquer all the the oil rich countries in Asia.

If Iran pursues the new euro oil bourse, then they will be next. And if they don't try to change the international currency, they will still be next, only a little later.

Bu$h/PNAC has pushed the USA into another expansionist mode. We are an empire now. I doubt any other country can stop the USA's military. All thats left, is to restart the draft and let the next world war get started.

[sandnsea]

16. Vatican City is an actual country

With ambassadors and everything. So we're building a country inside a country, is what they're saying.