Iraq Embassy
Iraqis wake up in the morning wondering if there are tortured bodies in the streets or whether today it might be their turn to meet the death squads. Many of them wait in line for hours to get gasoline while the ground beneath their feet holds the second largest oil reserves in the world. Many don’t have electricity or running water.
Recently, the House voted 399 to 24 to extend the ban on the U.S. building permanent bases in Iraq past the end of September 2007. The media seldom talks about our nearly completed $592 million embassy compound in Baghdad or the 14 other permanent bases in Iraq. It indicates that the Bush regime never intended to leave Iraq, until the oil runs out. Big Oil has no desire to let the spoils of war slip away.
This is largest American embassy in the world. The compound is about the same size as Vatican City and will have many of the amenities of a small American town, six apartment buildings, a palm-fringed swimming pool, a gym, fast food restaurants, barbershop, beauty salon, commissary. It will also be completely self-sufficient with its own power plant, wells and waste water treatment system.
It’s typical of the Bush regime to provide opulence in the middle of war-torn poverty, while telling the Iraqis that their making the country better. To most Iraqis, the embassy amounts to a little more than half a billion dollar eyesore. An Iraqi guard said: “It's all for them. All of Iraq’s resources, water, electricity, security, it’s as if it is their country and we are guests staying here.”
Despite the almost $600 million price tag, our planners now say this embassy compound that’s built to hold more than 1,000 people isn’t big enough.
Iraqi citizens who work for our embassy in Baghdad want visas to come to the United States, because they live in constant fear. They can’t tell anyone they work for our government and are depending on our ambassador to get them out quickly.
Recently, the House voted 399 to 24 to extend the ban on the U.S. building permanent bases in Iraq past the end of September 2007. The media seldom talks about our nearly completed $592 million embassy compound in Baghdad or the 14 other permanent bases in Iraq. It indicates that the Bush regime never intended to leave Iraq, until the oil runs out. Big Oil has no desire to let the spoils of war slip away.
This is largest American embassy in the world. The compound is about the same size as Vatican City and will have many of the amenities of a small American town, six apartment buildings, a palm-fringed swimming pool, a gym, fast food restaurants, barbershop, beauty salon, commissary. It will also be completely self-sufficient with its own power plant, wells and waste water treatment system.
It’s typical of the Bush regime to provide opulence in the middle of war-torn poverty, while telling the Iraqis that their making the country better. To most Iraqis, the embassy amounts to a little more than half a billion dollar eyesore. An Iraqi guard said: “It's all for them. All of Iraq’s resources, water, electricity, security, it’s as if it is their country and we are guests staying here.”
Despite the almost $600 million price tag, our planners now say this embassy compound that’s built to hold more than 1,000 people isn’t big enough.
Iraqi citizens who work for our embassy in Baghdad want visas to come to the United States, because they live in constant fear. They can’t tell anyone they work for our government and are depending on our ambassador to get them out quickly.
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