BUSH builds Billion-Dollar US. Baghdad Embassy

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U.S. embassies typically cover 10 acres. This one, a 104-acre complex, will comprise 21 buildings, its own water wells, an electricity plant, and a wastewater treatment facility, making the huge compound completely independent of Iraq, whose "interim government" sold the land to the U.S. in October 2004.
The terms of the agreement do not appear to be readily accessible.

The likeness to a small fortified city is frightening to those who object to a permanent presence of the U.S. in Iraq, which has already been destroyed by American bombs and depleted uranium, and the core of such fear lies in the question of why the U.S., already dangerously in debt back home and dangerously despised in Iraq and most of the Mideast, is pounding its chest with such a noisy bravado.
Is this the finale of "Shock and Awe"?
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/saavedra.php?articleid=8884

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1. Halliburton accepting Iraq job applications n/t

[DemInDistress]

2. I'd love to see the Sunni's Shia's and the Kurds unite and drive

those fucking scumbags into their graves,sorry its just how i feel about this,sad sad commentary our hard earned tax dollars going into permanent bases and now a billion dollars embassy. when is enough enough? Go iraqi's kick those americans out of your land and keep your OIL..

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3. Don't feel bad, DU:ers.

Once we pack up and leave, the Iraqis can have this palatial spread. Just like we moved into Saddam's palaces, they get to have this one. They can probably fit in 100 families...very comfortable surroundings.

piped-in music, an entertainment center, nice movies, even a jukebox from the Good Ole U.S of A. Nice.

It's our way of repaying them for the damage done. Enjoy.

[northofdenali]

4. It's the size of the Vatican. Need we say more?

See the picture here:

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.

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.

House of GOD, anyone? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12319798/

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5. FORT BAGHDAD???????????????

[northofdenali]

6. Yeah, sweetie, and it ain't the Bronx.

Disgusting, isn't it?

[opihimoimoi]

7. The Great Wall of CHINA, The Maginot Line, Hadrians Wall, etc

They all failed....