Hi Dave,
Whichever way things go in Iraq the US will be ready to be a part of the
action in the new Embassy that should be ready to open Sept., of this year.
Someone is planning on being there for awhile.
With Love,
CtrlAltDel aka Dave
C4/5 Complete - 31 Years Post
Texas, USA
By ANNE GEARAN
The Associated Press
Saturday, May 19, 2007; 12:35 PM
WASHINGTON -- The new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad will be the world's largest
and most expensive foreign mission, though it may not be large enough or secure
enough to cope with the chaos in Iraq.
The Bush administration designed the 104-acre compound _ set to open in
September in what today is a war zone _ to be an ultra-secure enclave. Yet it
also hoped that downtown Baghdad would cease being a battleground when
diplomats moved in.
Over the long term, depending on which way the seesaw of sectarian division
and grinding warfare teeters, the massive city-within-a-city could prove too
enormous for the job of managing diminished U.S. interests in Iraq.
The $592 million embassy occupies a chunk of prime real estate two-thirds the
size of Washington's National Mall, with desk space for about 1,000 people
behind high, blast-resistant walls. The compound is a symbol both of how much
the United States has invested in Iraq and how the circumstances of its
involvement are changing.
...
The 21-building complex on the Tigris River was envisioned three years ago
partly as a headquarters for the democratic expansion in the Middle East that
President Bush identified as the organizing principle for foreign policy in his
second term.
The complex quickly could become a white elephant if the U.S. scales back its
presence and ambitions in Iraq. Although the U.S. probably will have forces in
Iraq for years to come, it is not clear how much of the traditional work of
diplomacy can proceed amid the violence and what the future holds for Iraq's
government.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070519/worlds-largest-embassy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
this 'war' has been going on for over 3,000 years. it isn't about to
stop now.
it will only change - the 'us' and 'them' are still us and them...
only the tactics are different. this will continue until HE comes and
settles it with his "velvet hammer" !!!
dave
In a message dated 5/22/2007 6:27:26 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL
PROTECTED] writes:
A "Dirty" Bomb is very simple to construct.
The "Islamic Fascists" have been building their brainwashed puppets of
destruction for almost 60yrs.
They've been killin Americans for "OVER" 30rs.
We didn't start WWIII, they did.
tHIS IS MUCH BIGGER THAN iRAQ.
More-over, had we not removed Sadamn from Kuwait, the middle east
would be on fire, the Saudi's would've viewed it as a violation of the
Agreement FDR made with them, and it would have been the end of
Israel.
The big picture isn't pretty, but leaving Iraq with its terrorist
problem would prolong this war, and world wide the US would be viewed
as weak and unwilling to fight.
Stunt
On 5/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Stunt, should you ever want to discuss the complexity of developing a
> nuclear bomb program, let me know?
> We didn't need to fight Iraq in 1991. We could have made a deal with sadam
> to get 7 dollar a barrel oil for 40 years. Instead, we went to war to save a
> country that believes Americans are better off dead and giving their money
> to them. Why should we get involved in arab problems that freighten our
> enemies, (Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia)? Remember all the arab nations that
> joined us in pushing out Saddam? They didn't like us, they just hated
> Saddam. Now we are teaching arabs how to train competant armies and loosing
> soldiers at a rate of 3 a day and a billion dollars a week.
> We didn't pay attention to french and british failures in the middle east,
> well, we did, but we elected people that failed history or just can't read.
> Are American lives worth less if they put on a uniform? Send your answer to
> 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
>
> john
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: quad-list@eskimo.com
> Sent: Mon, 21 May 2007 4:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] NEW CHAIR
>
> Sorry,
> But Sadamned "was" still developing WMD's.
> It wasn't untill after he was caught, that the wacky Kadafi quickly
> decided to give up (what he claimed) was "his countries" WMD program.
> Big surprise was his "Iraqi" scientists. No way in hell Sadamned would
> have allowed his scientists to develope a nuke for "another" dictator.
> Anyone who doubts this need only look at his history and the facts.
> He was paying off Kadafi with money scammed from the "Oil for Food"
> instead of feeding the Kurds and Sunni.
> The UN was considering lifting restrictions set by the 1991 ceasefire
> treaty that Sadamned violated too many times to list. "If" all of
> Iraq's WMD's had been destroyed under UN supervision, as per the
> treaty "he" signed. then we'd have known exactly what happened.
> Instead, all those "so called" relief flights by the Soviets, back and
> forth to Syria, are still in question.
> Seems those relief supplies were as elusive as the WMD's.
> Think it was a bad idea to invade when we did?
> Given a few more weeks to prepair, the Iraqi's could have caused more
> damage.
> His two wack job son's would still be waiting their turn, and we'd be
> facing Iraq armed with a nuke.
>
> Stunt
> BTW, I'd have to advise that War is Hell, but not fighting one can
> lead to a living hell.
>
> On 5/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > We had an administration, with the best military, the best international
> > intelligence, the world's best
> > spy program, bar none, that snookered the world into believing that a
> small
> > country possessed weapons of mass destruction, against the advise of other
> > countries, who said that weapons of mass destruction didn't exist. Years
> > later.... oops and look at the cost of precious lives on both sides, not
> to
> > mention the money that could have been better spent. Today, we know that
> > millions of dollars and it could be billions in green
> > American cash has been shipped over and unaccounted for.....
> >
> > Hope it changes, for the sake of my fellow mens.... and womens
> > W
> >
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 5/19/2007 12:54:53 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > didn't AL GORE invent SCIs????
> >
> > Tim Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There are those who think it's all President Bush's fault that they're
> > still quads.
> > Facts just tend to get in the way, frustrating them into a tizzy about
> > everything.
> > Must be a real bummer not being able to shrug it off and LAUGH a little.
> > Me? My job is to try to get at least one laugh out of my aids etc each
> day.
> > Stunt
> >
> >
> >
> >
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