Baghdad Is Home To Worlds Largest Embassy

  In case you haven't read about it or seen it on the news stations yet, I am going to tell you about our new embassy compound in Baghdad, Iraq.

   First off, as is usual with anything the Bush crime family does, the embassy will be the most expensive one in the world and the largest one also.

   It is a 104-acre compound and you can bet that it is super secure and has all of the latest high-tech security gadgets in it and around it.

  If you are familiar with the Washington National Mall, then you know almost how big this place is as it would occupy an area two-thirds the size of the mall at a cost of  $592 million with enough desk area for 1,000 people. This is a 21-building complex so you can pretty much guess, correctly, that the United States is going to be there in some form for a very long time, maybe with limited troop deployment.

   It is noted by the Huffington Post  that this task is one of the very few undertaken by this administration that is within budget and on schedule.

  Of course it is. Bush and the rest of the Bushco Mafia can't waste time on their future hide-out, now can they. All of those ExxonMobile, BP executives have to have some place really safe to hang out in while they count their profits from that Iraqi oil that they are going to steal.

  One other tidbit:

The State Department and Congress have tussled this year over a $50 million request for additional blast-resistant housing. The department says it did not anticipate needing so many fortified apartments when the embassy was in the planning stages three years ago and Iraq was a less violent place.

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.

"This is another case where poor planning, skyrocketing costs and security concerns are colliding in the Bush administration's policies in Iraq, and we need to make adjustments," said Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate panel that pays for State Department operations.

"They want hundreds of additional embassy staff who they cannot safely house within the new embassy compound. It's time for a reality check," said Leahy, D-Vt.   Huffington Post

   The embassy is set to open in September, so make your vacation plans and book your rooms now for the festivities!

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