a giant US embassy, we dont need
May 03, 2006In the chaos of Iraq, one project is on target: a giant US embassy
THE question puzzles and enrages a city: how is it that the Americans cannot keep the electricity running in Baghdad for more than a couple of hours a day, yet still manage to build themselves the biggest embassy on Earth?
Irritation grows as residents deprived of air-conditioning and running water three years after the US-led invasion watch the massive US Embassy they call “George W’s palace” rising from the banks of the Tigris.
In the pavement cafés, people moan that the structure is bigger than anything Saddam Hussein built. They are not impressed by the architects’ claims that the diplomatic outpost will be visible from space and cover an area that is larger than the Vatican city and big enough to accommodate four Millennium Domes. They are more interested in knowing whether the US State Department paid for the prime real estate or simply took it.
While families in the capital suffer electricity cuts, queue all day to fuel their cars and wait for water pipes to be connected, the US mission due to open in June next year will have its own power and water plants to cater for a population the size of a small town.
COMMENT
When I learned that America was building clubs, golf courses, and swimming pools in Vietnam during the 1960's it told me there was not going to be an early conclusion to the War. A short war was indicated that you won, took care of the after war business and went home. You really did not need to build luxury recreational or housing in the war theatre.
Those that forget history are those that will repeat it. Deja vu. America is building a 104 acre Trump Palace in Iraq with a club, swimming, restaurants, and super deluxe apartments. They are even using Kuwaiti builders and foreign labor instead of putting unemployed Iraqis to work. America is really building a luxury resort instead of an embassy. I imagine that America does not have even one other embassy that comes close to the size, luxury, or features of the embassy they are building in Iraq. If there is ever peace in Iraq, I want to go to that resort if it ever goes into private hands, which it probably will if it is not sabotaged.
I think it ought to be named after the current president "George W. Bush" since he deserves it because he brought America to the War there and he probably approved for its construction. I cant imagine any other structure in the world that says his name more than this one.
posted by God Bless America - Bob @ 3:22 PM
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