A Kurd putting the polish on a turd.

dxl, that will come after the 20th.

can this be outsourced? These guys will never leave the green zone anyway--be cheaper to phone it in from--say Montana...

Should have put up lots of fast-food places. Even a WalMart or two. Would have been cheaper and done more good.

4000 people on the staff? wow. they should probably hire more.

it's gonna take at least 3000 eager workers to make this bush-turd look shiny.

then you have revisionism that needs to be done.

punishment of the innocent

rewards to the guilty

it will take hundreds or people just to sweep everything under the rug.

America's latest client state is open for business it seems.

This area will continue to be a target for Iraqi aggresion fer decades to come.

Particularily as it remains an island of plenty in a sea of wretchedness and despair.

"Green" Zone equals the color of money, doncha know.

Should have put up lots of fast-food places. Even a WalMart or two.

No point in putting a Target store in there cos that'd be redundant.

Be Well.

What a waste. We could've bailed out a Wall Street bank for a month for that kind of money.

will see how long it will take for the bad guys to blow it up

Meanwhile our bridges, roads and infrastructure is falling apart in the US!!!!

Government WASTE!!!!!!

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round :
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover !
A savage place ! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover !
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,

And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war !

In a vision once I saw :
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome ! those caves of ice !
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware ! Beware !
His flashing eyes, his floating hair !
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.

Ohhh that was worth the $2 trillion we will spend on Iraq.

Heckuva job Bushie.

Ohhh that was worth the $2 trillion we will spend on Iraq.

Heckuva job Bushie.

#11 | Posted by JimmyWallback

Yeah, especially considering-EVERYTHING Haliburton and their subsidiaries-Kellogg, Brown, and Root-as well as others-have been built so flimsily, when the Shiites, and Sunnis decide to-they'll throw a few firecrackers at the place and level it.

I have no foreknowledge at all on this, but i'll bet anybody that haliburton, kbr, exxon, shell, etc... already have space leased in that same building.

i hope it's well fortified for the coming civil war.

Bush should be made to live in this latest White Elephant of his. Put his piddling library there!

Wait til we find out the roof leaks and the toilets back up.

waste, waste, waste

China got the first contract

The anchor bolts in the foundation probably cost $10,000 each.

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Bush: Classic FAIL

If this one is the largest, the one they are making in Karachi, must be the second largest...

It might one day enter American brains that one or two guys in a room, stamping visas, will attract far less crap from the restless natives, than putting Fort Knox replicas in nice neighborhoods.

But I doubt it.

$592 Million?

PFFT!!

~ Bernie Madoff

$50 billion Madoff scandal PFFT!

$17 Billion Detroit Bailout PFFT!

~Paulson, "You wouldn't believe what I got away with for a BushCo parting shot. No debate, no conditions. The biggest ripoff in the history of the world. HA HA HA, cleaned out the Treasury. Now there is no fucking way Obama can afford to do anything he promised."

Take the money and run. The Rethuglicans don't have to clean up their own mess, as if they could.

I wonder what was the last outpost built by the roman empire?