Why should the largest US embassy be in Baghdad?

$592 million (projected now, which means it will cost more) to build it. Why? What besides blatant imperialism can account for it?

Amerika.

embassy, if they were given a say in the matter.

then the people would vote for it yes.

Americans would vote for this to be our biggest embassy in a heartbeat. Like the man said, You can't go broke speculating on the stupidity of human beings.

if they like this idea. The House voted against it. I think even conservatives would balk at the idea of wasting half a billion on an Oil Man's Club.

...And They Will Throw Rose Pedals and Flowers When Bush Comes To Visit.

...Iraqarabiaranistan.

If the neoCONs have their way, Iraq will never again be a truly sovereign nation. Our military will stay indefinitely and our multi-coporate, profit-pushing "diplomats" will ensure maximum profits are derived from the human and natural resources in Iraq.

or so, when all their oil is gone.

A veritable Nest of Spies and Control Center for ChimpCo's $3.5 billion CIA-established and operated Iraqi Secret Police.

(and a home base for US mercs, well connected BushCo oilmen and no-bid contract pirates)...

gotta have a mid-east capital for our empire somewhere :eyes:

If so, why do we need yet another one in Iraq?

But by "largest," I would also assume that means they're planning to put a big staff there. And I'd imagine the staff would be there to keep tabs on other countries in the region. In other words, it is nakedly imperialistic, and not for diplomacy strictly at all.

in Guatamala. Forward base for black ops.

Why else?

Bush is a fascist globalist with no allegiance to the US or the people of the US. His allegiance is only to his fascist family and the corporate elite. He was taught to be a fascist from the cradle. He thinks that crushing democracy is good, and right. In order to understand any action that Bush takes, this has to be the primary consideration.

April 3, 2005
BY WILLIAM O'ROURKE

What the Bush administration is doing domestically -- trying to privatize Social Security, continuing tax favors for corporations, changing bankruptcy laws to favor business over individuals, applying free-market ideology wherever possible -- has been done with impunity in Iraq.

Wars might be hell, but they have their up side for business. Bechtel and Halliburton might be impeded in the way they do business here in the States, but in Iraq, anything goes. One of the first edicts Bremer signed gave immunity from Iraqi laws to U.S. contractors and other Western firms doing business in Iraq.

Americans are concerned with the suffering of their soldier children, dead and injured and in peril. It is hard to get exercised over spending tax money for other purposes, beyond that of the tardily produced body and Hummer armor -- all the equipment and infrastructure large armies require. The last thing on most minds is the fact that the Bush administration has attempted, however ineptly, to remake Iraq in its chosen image: a triumphal business-friendly, free-market paradise, a future Banana Republic, where those in-the-know profit and those on the ground try to figure out what happened to their lives.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/orourke/cst-edt-rour03.html