Embassy of Freedom -Nice touch Subby

Shiite happens.

We're going to try diplomats now. Really?

FTFA A senior State Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the trailers at the palace will receive some "enhanced protection" but that it would not include overhead shielding.

If it's one thing a trailer can take is a high impact.

Maybe once those diplomats have to start doubling up they will do something about getting the hell outta there.

I can't understand why these America-hating libtard diplomats don't want to go to Iraq.

That embassy is a symbol of everything that's wrong with our foreign policy.

Don't the people from Katrina need those trailers?

Like some actual supermax, why didn't they build this below ground? And above ground could be a military base or some wicked arsenals.

Jan. 20 cannot come soon enough.

/Where are the real Republicans?

Outside Iraq, diplomats do not live inside their embassies. It is conceivable that they are planning for the long term where we are sort of a Tony-Sopranoesque friend of the Iraqi people but not actual occupiers. Then diplomats can live in some well heeled neighborhood like everywhere else.

I'm the first one to point out when gubment is teh stoopid, but this time I'm not yet convinced.

/how you doin!

7. hundred. million. dollars.

I didn't notice in the article which company got paid that much money for a building that doesn't meet the needs of the client.

Almost makes you want to laugh and cry at the same time.

Open embassy, declare victory, withdraw. Excellent plan! Please continue!

It's crap like this that will permanently ruin any advances we make in the "war" on terrorism because they make it abundantly clear what out true motivations are.

We keep telling Iraqis that they will be free; that their government will be autonomous and answerable to them, not the United States, yet we continue to build all of the infrastructure and push political agendas in Iraq that do exactly the opposite.

Then we expect them to stop shooting at us...

It's almost as if they want the war on terror to continue; like they want a genuine threat they can use as a cudgel on the American people to vote them more power.

Naaaaaaah, that's just tin-foil hat talk.

Speaker2Animals: Jan. 20 cannot come soon enough.

/Where are the real Republicans?

hockeyfarker: 7. hundred. million. dollars.

I didn't notice in the article which company got paid that much money for a building that doesn't meet the needs of the client.

From a 2006 article on the embassy (new window): 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.

Higgins declined to identify those builders, citing security reasons, but said five were American companies.

Sounds like they don't really think it's any of your damn business who they're giving that money to. Nothing to see here, move along citizen!

What does an average US in Iraq make a month?

Are they also taxed on combat income?

Prospero424: It's crap like this that will permanently ruin any advances we make in the "war" on terrorism because they make it abundantly clear what out true motivations are.

We keep telling Iraqis that they will be free; that their government will be autonomous and answerable to them, not the United States, yet we continue to build all of the infrastructure and push political agendas in Iraq that do exactly the opposite.

Then we expect them to stop shooting at us...

It's almost as if they want the war on terror to continue; like they want a genuine threat they can use as a cudgel on the American people to vote them more power.

Naaaaaaah, that's just tin-foil hat talk.

This. Sadly.

Migaloo: What does an average US soldier in Iraq make a month?

Are they also taxed on combat income?

/only had one beer,,honest,,,

Are there any helicopter pads on the roof?

Seriously, unwanted occupation can only last so long, then the locals get pissed off. How would you feel with Chinese troops in your city?

/Watch the Battle of Algiers.

"it is critical that the embassy in Iraq keep our diplomatic and development personnel safe."

By building a huge 700 million dollar fortress?

Someone's hanging around for awhile.

Someday the entire green zone is going to be overrun, looted and burned by the very people we "Liberated." Hopefully that won't happen until after the last American is evacuated.

After that, the ruins of our embassy fortress is going to stand for a loooooong time as a monument to America's idiotic invasion of Iraq.

You forgot the ^(TM) after Embassy of Freedom, subby. Don't think they're not coming for you.

Also, considering the Amazing Standards (pops) to which the embassy was built, maybe not living in the place is a privilege.

I hope they built better access to the helipad this time.

That may be the most full of win headline that i'll ever see. Good one Subby.

keloyd 2008-04-25 08:44:52 PM
Outside Iraq, diplomats do not live inside their embassies. It is conceivable that they are planning for the long term where we are sort of a Tony-Sopranoesque friend of the Iraqi people but not actual occupiers. Then diplomats can live in some well heeled neighborhood like everywhere else.

I'm the first one to point out when the Americangubment is teh stoopid, but this time I'm not yet convinced.

/how you doin!

FTFY
My government is actually quite competent. (even with the conservatives running it)

they don't want us there so we build an embassy.

No one can confirm the US "Liberated" Iraq. In contrast replacing a stable monarchy with an unstable democracy, is more of an insertion.

What ever this remodeled palace is costing taxpayers remains a sham. With all the inadequacies of military needs in other areas, and yet building a bridge to nowhere becomes fathomable.

Any alibi the US GOVERNMENT chooses to condone this invasion will not rectify our losses or change our present status. Presented with our decaying economy, an imminent recession, and the upcoming elections, a serious strategy needs to be developed.

One good Tet offensive this summer and we might be back in Kuwait.

KenShabby:

What is with Ron Paul's shoes in that pic? Can he not afford dress shoes?

TRAILERS?!?!

Nevermind the unshielded roofs, don't they know if they put a bunch of trailers all in one place, a tornado is bound to hit before too long and blow all that shiat away?

I mean, they're taking enough chances as it is trying to put double-wide office trailers in Iraq anyway, but putting them all together is just asking for trouble. Bombs, tornadoes, suicide bombers, they'd never get any work done anyway.

MrPerfectSU: KenShabby:

What is with Ron Paul's shoes in that pic? Can he not afford dress shoes?

Ha! I can't comment on the shoes, but I love that photo. It is the perfect summation of loneliness and abandonment. The silly shoes just round out the fail.

/Vote Obama, he wouldn't wear cheap shoes. Even when we go play hoop.

Those shoes mean he's not an elitist.

Wasn't that the one that turned out to have been constructed by Asian slave labor?

Wasn't that the one that turned out to have been constructed by Asian slave labor?

Well, we've seen testimony before congress about this; the construction workers were taken to Baghdad against their will. But that doesn't mean it's slavery, because the public relations documents refer to them as Freedom Workers. Because work will set them free.

Good god that thing is hideous. What a perfect symbol of our arrogance and stupidity. They forgot to paint a target on it too.

may the occupation of Iraq
successfully eliminate all terrorism
and win friends in the middle east

you would think that maybe the US govt
would just once take a minute to ponder thereason
they have to build superduper impregnable fortresses
to protect them from people who hate their guts.

Silly people, you think they care about whether this embassy will be functional or not. The main goal is to shunt taxpayer money into the hands of well-connected contracters, anything extra is just a bonus.