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To: Spunky

Their country, their chlice. Refusing gives credence to AQ arguments you've just installed a pro-western puppet.

As does the foolish decision to build the supoer embassy in Vaghdad on prime real estate - very shortsighted and gives the insurgents, AQ and unfriendly media a visible easily recognisable symbol of an 'arrogant enemy presence forced on the Iraqis...many smaller high security complexes would have been better, or one big one outside the central district of the city.


87 posted on 06/19/2006 11:12:37 PM PDT by Androcles (All your typos are belong to us)
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To: Androcles

Oops = Typos....

Chlice=choice
supoer=Super
Vaghdad=Baghdad


88 posted on 06/19/2006 11:16:30 PM PDT by Androcles (All your typos are belong to us)
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To: Androcles
"...many smaller high security complexes would have been better, or one big one outside the central district of the city."

From what I just read they are building many smaller high security complexes.

The New Embassy

Indeed, the massive $592-million project may be the most lasting monument to the U.S. occupation in the war-torn nation. Located on a on a 104-acre site on the Tigris river where U.S. and coalition authorities are headquartered, the high-tech palatial compound is envisioned as a totally self-sustaining cluster of 21 buildings reinforced to 2.5 times usual standards. Some walls as said to be 15 feet thick or more. Scheduled for completion by June 2007, the installation is touted as not only the largest, but the most secure diplomatic embassy in the world.

The 1,000 or more U.S. government officials calling the new compound home will have access to a gym, swimming pool, barber and beauty shops, a food court and a commissary. In addition to the main embassy buildings, there will be a large-scale US Marine barracks, a school, locker rooms, a warehouse, a vehicle maintenance garage, and six apartment buildings with a total of 619 one-bedroom units. Water, electricity and sewage treatment plants will all be independent from Baghdad's city utilities. The total site will be two-thirds the area of the National Mall in Washington, DC.

89 posted on 06/20/2006 9:46:28 AM PDT by Spunky ("Everyone has a freedom of choice, but not of consequences.")
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