U.S. Orders Evacuation of Many Embassy Workers From Baghdad
Source: New York Times
The American Embassy in Baghdad plans to evacuate a substantial number of its personnel this week in the face of a militant advance that rapidly swept from the north toward the capital, the State Department announced on Sunday.
The embassy, a beige fortress on the banks of the Tigris River within the heavily-secured Green Zone, where Iraqi government buildings are also located, has the largest staff of any United States Embassy.
The exact number of people being evacuated was not clear Sunday. The embassy would remain open, a person familiar with the planning said, and much of its staff of about 5,500 would stay in Baghdad. The American government is expected to call the move a relocation, suggesting that it is a temporary precaution, the person said.
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Bloody Hell, here we go again!!!!!
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what an incompetent jerk he and Bremer were to set up these dominoes. I blame/lay the chaos, violence, sectarian and otherwise, directly at their feet. It's not that complicated, the PNAC cabal created this mess.
to get the onus off 'their boy'. Every thinking person knows who bears responsibility for this fustercluck. I just laugh real loud at them when they start their BS about Obama in any context, really pisses them off. 
They do look strange with the business suit 
