U.S. Builds Massive New Iraqi Embassy

[pberq]

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/17/143232

U.S. Builds Massive New Iraqi Embassy
Meanwhile construction on the massive new U.S. embassy in Baghdad is a third complete. The fortress-like compound will be the largest U.S. embassy in the world. The complex will contain 21 buildings spread over 100 acres. With a staff of over 5,000 the embassy will resemble a small town on the Tigris River. It will contain its own defense force, water wells, electricity plant and wastewater-treatment facility.

[Kutjara]

1. Nothing says peace and democracy...

...like a hulking great concrete fortress.

[Inland]

3. And nothing says independent and self governing...

as a great hulking concrete fortress in the capital run as an "embassy" by a foreign power.

[Rex]

2. Wow, just yesterday the staff was said to be around 3,000

nows they added two thousand more ppl. Wonder what the true number is...probably classified. The worlds biggest spy building.

[northofdenali]

4. Can't keep promises on rebuilding the Iraqi's infrastructure -

But we can build this piece of shit:



From MSNBC

[opihimoimoi]

6. 21 TARGETS???

[SpiralHawk]

5. A satellite bureaucracy for our satellite nation

"We invaded, we conquered, it's our damn oil. All your war profiteering are belong to us." - BushCo

[sutz12]

7. Included in the 5,000 will be a battalion of Marines.

It'll take that many to guard a complex that large.