Is the NEW $300 million U.S. Embassy in Iraq…?

Question

Is the NEW $300 million U.S. Embassy in Iraq – (The one being built using slave labor), just a phallus extension for the Bush Administration?

You known; sort of like an 80-year-old man driving a Red Convertible…

What is the point?

Answer 1

Why is America not smart enough to realize we are spending

>> SIX HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS<<<

on a TARGET for terrorists?


Golly Gee. When I think of all the necessities that 600 million could buy for AMERICANS it really steams me.


I really loathe stupidity.
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Oh - and by the way? It is the Gilded Example of Opulence and WASTE.


IT IS A LUXURY FACILITY - right smack dab in the middle of five years worth of SQUALOR. Let's just paint red and white concentric circles on the outside, why not?

God we are stupid.
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“Abuse of workers building U.S. embassy in Iraq is alleged
CAREERS & JOBS – Two former employees of First Kuwaiti Trading and Contracting, the company that's building the new $592 million U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, testified to a House of Representatives panel Thursday that they'd observed abuses of construction workers. “

http://careers.netscape.com/story/2007/07/26/abuse-of-workers-building-us-embassy-in-iraq-is-alleged

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-embassy24jul24,0,7085179.story?page=2

http://knoxville.wate.com/sound_off/index.php?PHPSESSID=c959c9b4d16b9dc31cda424d5bc5d212&topic=2638.new

Answer 2

Doncha just love no-bid contracts? As other answerers have pointed out, the projected cost was $300 million, and the actual cost is now looking to be $600 million a 100% cost overrun and climbing. That's roughly what we spend on Public Broadcasting. Which the Administration says we can't afford because it might lead to people finding out about things like this.

Any contractor so incompent that they can indulge in so many unfair labor practices AND STILL NOT BRING THE PROJECT IN ON BUDGET should be permanently barred from receiving Goverment contracts.

For people who yap so much about the "Free Market" as Repbulicans do they sure don't seem to believe in it. It's crystal clear that they totally reject innovative or even established market practices. Especially a bold new concept that's sweeping the business world called, "Competitive Bidding."

I guess what they mean by "Free Enterprise" is that their cronies should be Free of Enterprise. Oh well, maybe when America comes to its senses and brings our troops home. we can sell the compound to Dubai to build a theme park on.

Answer 3

I think it cost about twice that amount.

It seems to be an incredible waste of taxpayer money. But then again, our government has been burning billions converting our embassies all over the world into fortresses. These fortresses are as unwelcoming to the citizens who pay for them as they are offensive to the host countries in which they exist.

If we wonder why we're unpopular everywhere, go to one of our embassies when your in a foreign country... It's an awful experience!

Answer 4

The embassador and his staff kept telling condi that they wouldn't report to work in this building. They kept writing memos stating their protest to its location. They kept asking that the project be canceled due to the lack of concern for the safety of the American staff.
It took ABC news to finally get an answer from Rice and the project was fianlly nixed due to enormous pressure from the staff and their families as well as the media.

Answer 5

It is the headquarters of Iraq Natural Resource Center, Inc.

Answer 6

I heard it was 600 million. The point? We are going to be there a very long time. Unless We the People take it in another direction.

Answer 7

I think it's just another example of them wiping their a s s es with taxpayer's money.

Answer 8

I can't wait to visit!

Do you think they have a day spa?