Maybe we can locate "The Shrub" there after he abdicates or is remove by whatever. This is as big a waste of money as possible.

Who thought of this HUA edifice?

This thing sounds just about big enough to hold the presidential papers as well as trial transcripts.

I'll be damned. There is a good use for it.

They could have a GWB Bitchslap day. Each Iraqi would if he or she desire, deliver one each heart felt bitch. By the time each member of that society gave him their all, he would know how it feels to be on ground zero of a 2000 lb. bomb.

See, in a country with $26 trillion of oil still in the ground, you want to have a nice
diplomatic presence.

What? no spamming his own thread here? Must be Jekkyl.

Trying to Hyde.

"What? no spamming his own thread here?
Posted by Sarvkov "

Ahaha, a Stealth Poster. Were you exiled in your former incarnation? Or are you just on "vacation"?

Looking at the picture, it looks like a fortress - no wait, a prison. I guess it's both since you don't go out for a nice walk in that neighborhood.

"What you have is a situation in which they are building an embassy without really thinking about what its functions are," said Edward Peck, a former top U.S. diplomat in Iraq.

Wow, surprise. More non-planning. Let's build it and see what happens! Same as the invasion: Let's invade and see what happens (post war planning not allowed).

Expensive to build and I didn't realize this; expensive to operate:

The new Democratic-controlled Congress has grumbled about the approximately $1 billion annual cost of embassy operations in Iraq and told the administration the embassy is overstaffed at roughly 1,000 regular employees. Add security contractors, locally hired staff and others and the number climbs to more than 4,000.

That would depend on your POV.


Go back to Nijmegen then, achterlijke.

Posted a couple threads long ago about this, but it is still the most hideous monstrosity that has ever been conceived. Why this huge building if we are supposed to leave. We are never going to leave. IMPEACH BUSH

SMD, YDS-CL-SOAFWTD&DS.

TYDBYL&GFY.

SFB. YMMGCLLVDMYUFF.

"The embassy is one of the few major projects the administration has undertaken in Iraq that is on schedule and within budget."

Well when yer budget is like a billion dollars a year it's not that hard to do.

"Still, not all has gone according to plan."

Ya think?

Be Well.

Rather than call the new facility the "US Embassy", why not choose another name more fitting?

"Republican Palace".

Much better.

It is impressive - in a Gotham cityesque fashion. Looks cool when the flares drift over it at night.

It'll make great target practice for Iraqi missiles.

"That would depend on your POV"

True, ignorance is a POV.

It'll make great target practice for Iraqi missiles.

Posted by Ray at 2007-05-20 06:58 AM

I suspect that they will have the highest concentration of anti-missle defenses of any 104 acre piece of real-estate in the world (a big part of that $1 billion annual budget, unless of course they bury that part in the general defense budget).

OCU

I wonder if the Bin Lauden Construction Company has the building contract?

Wouldn't that be Ironic???

"...Call it the..."Republican Palace"...posted by biscuit"

How about "Republican Guard Palace"

That would be Ironic too!

Neocon mausoleum?