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- mysteri0usdrx, on 11/04/2007, -13/+87I'm so ***** sick of this war. We need to leave, and never mess with a single goddamn foreign affair that doesn't effect us again.
- sockpuppets, on 11/04/2007, -6/+69This is pretty much a giant "***** you" to any normal Iraqi trying to make it through the day. After seeing my family go years without electricity, picked off one by one by random violence, all the while barely surviving I would suddenly realize why becoming a terrorist would be appealing. If you want to win hearts and minds you have to give people hope, not spend the cash on giant concrete hilton instead..
- reeder, on 11/04/2007, -13/+71Now made with more slavery!
- nexah3, on 11/04/2007, -1/+48Nothing says "Welcome!" quite like needing 619 blast-resistant apartments.
- Dumbledorito, on 11/04/2007, -3/+41So when they inter Cheney's golden sarcophagus in there, are they putting his pacemaker in a canopic jar and burying his staffers with him so they can continue to serve in the afterworld?
- ZenFountain, on 10/31/2007, -2/+39Reminds me of the Ryugyong Hotel in the DPRK. Not quite as creepy, but a chilling reminder of exorbitant government waste and foreign policy run amok. The American embassy in Iraq will serve as a very expensive tombstone for the neo-conservative ideology.
- oxygen911, on 11/04/2007, -1/+35Who wants to take bets on how many Starbucks they're going to fit in there
- Frnnkdlxx, on 11/01/2007, -4/+34$600 million + Already Obsolete + National Deficit + Healthcare Crisis + Environmental Crisis + Homeless Crisis = Somebodies gotta go to jail.
- syroncoda, on 10/31/2007, -3/+30i'd sure like a bunch of my tax money to build a new fancy bombproof shopping mall in somebody elses country... how do i sign up for that? what do i have to lie about for people to give it to me?
- Marijuana, on 10/31/2007, -0/+22"very expensive tombstone for the neo-conservative ideology."
Well said, that's exactly what it is. - inactive, on 11/04/2007, -5/+21No doubt it is also WMD-proof as well, right W?
- ndawg25, on 10/31/2007, -0/+15affect, son. it's *affect*
- inactive, on 10/31/2007, -2/+16Filipino slaves bonehead. Turn off the TV.
- iFungus, on 10/31/2007, -1/+15Why don't they get both by coming home?
- sockpuppets, on 10/31/2007, -0/+13Nothing sways a crowd better than poor grammar and name calling. Your 1337 name is like the icing on the cake!
- extratired, on 10/31/2007, -1/+13pic? it's a 5 page article with one small (& vague) picture!
- wastelander, on 10/31/2007, -3/+14Do you need a 600 million dollar fortress to give replacement passports and issue visas? This isn't an embassy, its a capitol.
The plan of the neo-cons all along was to turn Iraq into an American 'colony' which they would control through a puppet government. The reason is obvious, with the 2nd largest oil reserves in the world, if we controlled Iraq we would no longer be dependent on "foreign oil" and could tell the Saudi's to go *^&%*! themselves. Good plan.. except the age of imperialism died out a couple of centuries ago.. What a bunch of morons.. how could they expect it to end up any way OTHER than this.. - theholyraptor, on 04/07/2008, -1/+11and while you're at it, Hitler would have probably LOVED Cheney and Bush and allied with them, let us conquer half the world, and then attempt to overthrow us to gain complete control, so stop trying to use Hitler as a ridiculous comparison to invoke peoples emotions illegitimately.
- iFungus, on 10/31/2007, -2/+11Except Hitler had this habit of taking over countries every weekend.
- TheDHC, on 11/04/2007, -1/+10bigger than the vatican
- frieddonuts, on 10/31/2007, -1/+10Cheney? Die? I think he's a little bit past the "living" stage, more of a well-preserved zombie now.
- tehpwnrate, on 11/01/2007, -2/+10Thanks for reinforcing his point: that non-interventionist policy led us to show up late, and a really strong policy would mean we wouldn't show up at all. By the way, don't refer to the thousands of Americans who died for Europe and the rest of the world as fighting like pussies. It shows how biased you are.
- jorgepblank, on 10/31/2007, -0/+8Extremely well said.
- quaxon, on 10/31/2007, -0/+7for starters we freed them from clean water and electricity.
- ahuxley, on 11/04/2007, -3/+10Will it end like the U.S. embassy in Vietnam?
- mrogi, on 10/31/2007, -2/+9American military presence is permanent. It don't matter if Republicans or Democrats win the White House. We are in Iraq to stay. Any political who promises to leave is blowing smoke up your gullible ass.
- gryphonauto, on 10/31/2007, -1/+81.2 billion per year to run? That must be including a ton of costs completely unrelated to the physical embassy itself.
- Grumps, on 10/31/2007, -1/+7"one of the only projects in Iraq being completed within budget and on time."
LOL you bet, its our version for Palace of Saddam - AdamGeld, on 10/31/2007, -0/+6Because then supporters of the war can't plunder Iraq's wealth. If we have no troops or thugs there, then no one can make sure we get their money.
- Urusai, on 11/01/2007, -2/+8So you pay your exorbitant premiums, and you still end up paying thousands out of pocket. Having insurance is worse than having none.
- Dumbledorito, on 10/31/2007, -0/+6Maybe it'll be where his shell rests and repleneshes his strength. It's not built on the site of an old Sumerian Temple of Doom or something, is it?
- Spykie182, on 10/31/2007, -1/+6Oh yay.. first we give them weapons and now we build a fortress in their capital..
I bet they're waiting for it to be finished to attack it. - ricree, on 10/31/2007, -0/+5You do realize that there's more than one terrorist, right? The fact that some are fighting in Iraq doesn't mean that others are unable to come to the US. Unfortunately, all that this war has accomplished is to give a lot more people cause to hate our country.
- SilverBack101, on 10/31/2007, -1/+6And like a Ziggarut this shall fall as well.
- AdamGeld, on 11/01/2007, -0/+5I doubt you've ever had surgery before. I don't think each doctor needs to make a thousand bucks for a few hours of work. If they were really kind and generous people, and actually cared as much as they say they do, then they would do it for less to save more lives.
- deadnewton, on 10/31/2007, -1/+6I have personally heard of real stories of Srilankans, Pakistanis, Indians, Bangladeshis etc getting jobs in UAE, Behrain, Saudi, Iraq, Iran(in early days) etc. They primarily work as carpenters, unskilled laborers, plumbing, masonry, welders. Generally their passports are confiscated by the contractors and made to work under very low wages. I have seen and met with many such people working under blazing sun on a construction site. They are not allowed to leave the country until the finishing of the projects and also only if the contractors are willing [yes they just need the money. no employee benefits]. Some of them could only revisit their home country once in 8-10 yrs. Keep in mind that their families are thousands of mile away. Many a people have lost their passports thwarting their dream of earning money and supporting families back home. There are big firms (contractors) who trade visas for exorbitant amount of money to these countries and lure poor people to sell their life's earnings and getting cheated. One person I know personally saw his son for the first time when the kid was in 6th grade.
Some are daring enough to escape from the contractors without passports and stay and work illegally on other projects, obtained by contacts from their countrymen, earning only enough to get their daily bread. Many (as high as 10 in an efficiency kinda room) live in groups in tents and apartments with little or no air conditioning.
They live a lifetime in pain and suffering and many many families have been ruined accomplishing nothing. They cannot come out of the dark since the punishment is almost always severe. Sometimes their countrymen try to get hold of these poor souls through diplomatic channels and that mostly end up in unsolved case list. Its sad...very very sad. - inactive, on 10/31/2007, -0/+4The first thing I thought when I read the article was all the monuments built by Stalin, much like the Ryugyong Hotel.
- rickbauls, on 10/31/2007, -0/+4ahh yes, good ole miniluv
- inactive, on 10/31/2007, -0/+4god that is so simple minded. It's as if you think there is only one terrorist.
- whatthefu, on 10/31/2007, -3/+7This may be inappropriate but that picture is really cool.
- AdamGeld, on 11/01/2007, -0/+4He means the west expanding to the east.
- AdamGeld, on 10/31/2007, -0/+45%?!?! Where did you pull that number from? On second thought, don't answer that.
- AdamGeld, on 10/31/2007, -0/+3Maybe, maybe not, what's your point?
- AdamGeld, on 10/31/2007, -0/+3And this is bad for what reason?
- wedgemartin, on 10/31/2007, -2/+5We've liberated you. We've liberated you. That's why we've constructed a building in the heart of your country that looks like San Quentin.
- MrSlumberjack, on 11/01/2007, -1/+4If by 'well' you mean downhill for the next couple of generations, then yea.
- HunkOfLove, on 10/31/2007, -0/+3try this: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=baghdad+embassy
- Urusai, on 10/31/2007, -0/+3I'm tempted to call you on that, but then I think over the various countries we've had a military presence in at some time, and most of them still have one. History seems to be on your side.
- AdamGeld, on 10/31/2007, -1/+4We freed them from WHAT? What was Saddam doing that was worse then what we are doing now?
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