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"Harry Hope" |
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29 May 2007 01:18:32 PM |
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Republican Bush's $592 million ***** house in Baghded |
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/29/photos-embassy-iraq/
May 29, 2007
The $592 Million U.S. Embassy In Iraq
Construction of the U.S. embassy in Iraq, set to open in September, is
projected to cost $592 million, with a staff of 1,000 people and
operating costs totaling $1.2 billion a year.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/23/AR2007052301344_pf.html
It will be a 104-acre complex, which is the size of approximately 80
football fields.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-04-19-us-embassy_x.htm
On May 10, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) criticized the ballooning size
and cost of the embassy in a hearing with Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice:
Now, having said over and over again that we don’t want to be seen as
an occupying force in Iraq, we’re building the largest embassy that we
have — probably the largest in the world — in Baghdad.
And it just seems to grow and grow and grow. …
We agree that we should focus our aid locally not in Baghdad, but we
have 1,000 Americans at the embassy in Baghdad.
You add the contractors and the local staff it comes to 4,000.
The architectural firm designing the embassy, Berger Define Yaeger,
has posted the designs for the colossus on its website.
Some previews of the compound’s planned swimming pool and tennis
courts: http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=199798
http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/bdyembassy2.gif
The complex “will include two office buildings, one of them designed
for future use as a school, six apartment buildings, a gym, a pool, a
food court and its own power generation and water-treatment plants.”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-04-19-us-embassy_x.htm
The U.S. embassy is likely to create even greater Iraqi resentment
toward the U.S. occupation.
While Americans will be living in posh quarters, the citizens of
Baghdad are forced to survive with just 5.6 hours of electricity a
day. http://www3.brookings.edu/fp/saban/iraq/index.pdf
Baghdad was also recently rated the world’s worst city in which to
live.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070402/toronto_survey_070402?s_name=&no_ads=
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Ain't it lovely?
Harry
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| Title: Re: Republican Bush's $592 million ***** house in Baghded |
29 May 2007 11:36:45 PM |
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After Much Chewing of Cud and Cogitation, Harry Hope
<rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> Spat the Words
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/29/photos-embassy-iraq/
May 29, 2007
The $592 Million U.S. Embassy In Iraq
Construction of the U.S. embassy in Iraq, set to open in September, is
projected to cost $592 million, with a staff of 1,000 people and
operating costs totaling $1.2 billion a year.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/content/article/2007/05/23/AR2007052
301344_pf.html
It will be a 104-acre complex, which is the size of approximately 80
football fields.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-04-19-us-embassy_x.htm
On May 10, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) criticized the ballooning size
and cost of the embassy in a hearing with Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice:
I guess this lays to rest any lingering questions about the
Bush-monkey long terms goals for Iraq... a facist dictatorship,
puppet government (replete with purple stained finger), and Iraqi
bodies piled high in the street. Well, at least we can control
the Green Zone (most of it, on a good day).
Does anyone else find it odd the Bush-monkeys never read the history
of occupying armys and puppet governments ? Our own Revolutionary
War was a good example of this.
Now, having said over and over again that we don’t want to be seen as
an occupying force in Iraq, we’re building the largest embassy that we
have — probably the largest in the world — in Baghdad.
And it just seems to grow and grow and grow. …
We agree that we should focus our aid locally not in Baghdad, but we
have 1,000 Americans at the embassy in Baghdad.
You add the contractors and the local staff it comes to 4,000.
The architectural firm designing the embassy, Berger Define Yaeger,
has posted the designs for the colossus on its website.
Some previews of the compound’s planned swimming pool and tennis
courts: http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=199798
http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/bdyembassy2.gif
The complex “will include two office buildings, one of them designed
for future use as a school, six apartment buildings, a gym, a pool, a
food court and its own power generation and water-treatment plants.”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-04-19-us-embassy_x.htm
The U.S. embassy is likely to create even greater Iraqi resentment
toward the U.S. occupation.
While Americans will be living in posh quarters, the citizens of
Baghdad are forced to survive with just 5.6 hours of electricity a
day. http://www3.brookings.edu/fp/saban/iraq/index.pdf
Baghdad was also recently rated the world’s worst city in which to
live.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070402/toronto_sur
v
ey_070402?s_name=&no_ads=
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Ain't it lovely?
Harry
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