US Embassy In Baghdad Iraq Delayed Indefinitely

US Embassy In Baghdad Iraq Delayed Indefinitely

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The opening of the mammoth new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has been delayed indefinitely while its Kuwaiti contractor fixes a punch list of problems, the State Department said on Tuesday.

The sprawling complex, whose cost is edging toward $750 million, was set to open last month but U.S. lawmakers say shoddy work by the contractor and poor oversight by the State Department have delayed it.

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New US Embassy In Iraq: Cruesader Castle On The Tigris

The gigantic embassy is the costliest and most armored embassy ever in the history of humanity.

It sprawls like a modern-day crusader castle in the mideast.


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i seen it,and it's in my opinion a big slap in the face of the people of that country.. all of the hell U.S. brought in that area...ansd all of the homes,stores,schools...and building's.. should have been replaced.. or built new ones for them.

put giant apt. complexes in a few areas to give some of the people homes... fix some water issuses... light's.. .. but the worry about this thing...wonder how long it will be before it's tested.....

I predict that the monstrasity known as the US embassy in Baghdad will be completed just in time for the staged withdrawl of US troops. Either that or the partial finished embassy will become another piece of wreckage amongst all the carnage.

Or it could have been just another money laundering exercise.
They steal it from the tax payer.
Nothing governments do with tax result in value for money.......it’s just a scam!!!

Originally posted by KINGOFPAIN
i seen it,and it's in my opinion a big slap in the face of the people of that country.. all of the hell U.S. brought in that area...ansd all of the homes,stores,schools...and building's.. should have been replaced.. or built new ones for them.

put giant apt. complexes in a few areas to give some of the people homes... fix some water issuses... light's.. .. but the worry about this thing...wonder how long it will be before it's tested.....

Even though I think this embassy is a complete waste of more US taxpayer dollars, you are wrong or misinformed into believeing we have not built everything you have listed. I personally have friends who have gone over there and worked on these projects.

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Then will the new Embassy be limited to 3-4 hours of power a day? Most in Baghdad get, at MOST, 8 hrs of power a day. Thank goodness it's not hot there.

To build this is a big slap. They even built in a swimming pool. Have to give the elites a cool place to swim while the rest of Iraq is in flames.

Originally posted by TruthWithin
Then will the new Embassy be limited to 3-4 hours of power a day? Most in Baghdad get, at MOST, 8 hrs of power a day. Thank goodness it's not hot there.

To build this is a big slap. They even built in a swimming pool. Have to give the elites a cool place to swim while the rest of Iraq is in flames.

I guess the troops and airmen having pools in FOBs make them elites as well eh?

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NO.

I am suggesting a paradox that is unacceptable. People are starving and barley with enough food, water or power, yet there is a budget to build a 3/4 billion dollar monstrosity in the same neighborhood.

The troops should all have airconditioned condos there. WITH POOLS. So should the people of Iraq though as well.

Originally posted by TruthWithin
reply to post by deltaboy

 

NO.

I am suggesting a paradox that is unacceptable. People are starving and barley with enough food, water or power, yet there is a budget to build a 3/4 billion dollar monstrosity in the same neighborhood.

The troops should all have airconditioned condos there. WITH POOLS. So should the people of Iraq though as well.

perhaps you were misinformed on the reason we went into iraq
it surely wasnt to help poor iraqis.

query.nytimes.com...

It's pretty much laughable to call this an "embassy".

[edit on 11-10-2007 by kegs]

Crusader Castle...

Christians should start walking home from Iraq and find the criminals that
perpetrated 9/11 back here at home.

How insane is Bush sending shock and awe to kill innocent people over
a shoddy treasonous job that the FBI previewed in the 1993 bomb at
the WTC.

Give it up and go home to fight the real war.

reply to post by TeslaandLyne


I know its a little off topic but as much as I think we should go home I'm afraid of the possible massacre when the #e's and Sunni's have nobody in between them. I just hope there isn't a slaughter similar to the one that resulted from the pullout in Vietnam.

One thing is for damn sure, this country has to stop letting the politicians dictate how we fight a war. Since Korea it's been nothing but a mess.