Holy Crap!!! George W's palace

http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,295185,00.jpg
"Building work at the 104-acre complex, known locally as 'George W's palace', is supposed to be secret, but it is impossible to disguise the cranes dominating the Baghdad skyline"

In the chaos of Iraq, one project is on target: a giant US embassy
From Daniel McGrory in Baghdad

THE question puzzles and enrages a city: how is it that the Americans cannot keep the electricity running in Baghdad for more than a couple of hours a day, yet still manage to build themselves the biggest embassy on Earth?

Irritation grows as residents deprived of air-conditioning and running water three years after the US-led invasion watch the massive US Embassy they call “George W’s palace” rising from the banks of the Tigris.

In the pavement cafés, people moan that the structure is bigger than anything Saddam Hussein built. They are not impressed by the architects’ claims that the diplomatic outpost will be visible from space and cover an area that is larger than the Vatican city and big enough to accommodate four Millennium Domes. They are more interested in knowing whether the US State Department paid for the prime real estate or simply took it.

While families in the capital suffer electricity cuts, queue all day to fuel their cars and wait for water pipes to be connected, the US mission due to open in June next year will have its own power and water plants to cater for a population the size of a small town

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-2162249,00.html

However, I will make a suggestion: since King George is building a palace, let's just ship HIM over there, let him live there, in return for agreeing to leave us the fuck alone.

I vote for delivering the King's palace to him, stone by stone, air-dropped "special delivery".

I wasn't suggesting he should rule over there -- God forbid the Iraqi's suffer THAT punishment! I just mean, ship him over there, let him ride his trike around the palace grounds, and let the rest of us get on with the business of setting the world -- or at least this country -- right.

I was trying to find a funny way of saying what I meant so you wouldn't think I thought you meant...lol, I shoulda used a smiley or sumpin! In other words, it's cool. Actually you may be on to a brilliant idea. I mean, Bush** stuck in a sprawling palace in the middle of Baghdad? The man is already a paranoid freak...I'd pay real money to watch his total meltdown on CCTV!! :smoke:

:rofl:

eom

How does that make you feel?

I know they built this hoping it would be "Saigon helicopter proof" but it strikes me that the real precedent for this comes straight out of Genesis

And the enduring bases. It's an outpost on the frontier. It's a colony. It's so in-your-face.

So disturbing, I am speechless. I just really can't put it into words.

:wtf:

once it's built. I would be afraid to be anywhere near there.

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This embassy building is outrageous and I am sad that reconstruction funding (which will dry up soon, as no more has been budgeted) could be used for anything other than helping the Iraqi people. But your comment, perhaps unintentionally (I'll give you the benefit of the doubt), is calling for violence against Americans who will be in the building, and I think such talk should not be tolerated on this message board. Please reconsider what you just said.

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I also want the troops to come home, but they're there now, and even folks working for Blackwater shouldn't be hurt. And that's ridiculous to want to destroy a building complex that maybe some day can be used by the Iraqis.

I'm not anti-war. I'm pro-peace. And I think any calls for the destruction of people or property is immoral and goes against the people I admire like MLK and Gandhi. Are they not our role models?

What is happening to the people on this website when it's okay to incite violence and destruction?

On what grounds would you hold that U.S. soldiers, and mercenaries employed by the U.S. government on contract, having invaded Iraq and currently being engaged in occupying it, are not legitimate objects of attack for a national resistance against invasion and occupation?

Any country and its people have the right to resist invasion and occupation, and are certainly under no obligation to cease doing so at the command of the invader as he solidifies his position through establishing a puppet government housed in his fortified zones.

How is pointing out these facts, for they are facts, inciting violence and destruction? You may be sure Iraqis, from a variety of factions and feom a variety of motives, will continue to press their war against the occupation of their country, whatever we may or may not say here.

...and Iraq is BushCo's, permanently.

you owe me a coke

Great think minds alike.





Crazy Monkey

word.

I wish Dick Gregory or Helen Thomas would ask about this "Ponderosa" spread at a press briefing.

I thought "holy shit, I'm not suprised they are hiding that one". Then I thought "you know what, I can't believe they aren't using pictures of this place to show how "great" things are going over there." :shrug:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1097003

:shrug: (All the duplicates get rather tiresome, imho.)

or are you surprised that no one else has 'talked' about it?
I wish the rest of the world knew this little tidbit...

But now there are a hundred???

I've been wondering when Bush's shiny new Palace would make it's debut.

Will Bush, Condi, Rummy and Cheney (the man in charge) go down and do a ribbon cutting ceremony to rub it even more into the faces of Iraqi's? Make them Iraqi' damn sure they know who's in charge of their country.

"(T)he massive US Embassy they call "George W’s palace" rising from the banks of the Tigris... is larger than the Vatican city and big enough to accommodate four Millennium Domes."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-2162249,00.html

Oh no, It's the Tower of Babel!

I try not to make observations that will make me sound like a millenialist, but the good Lord doesn't have a lot of patience with megalomaniacal construction projects carried out by the corrupt and sinful in that particular corner of the Fertile Crescent.

"I try not to make observations that will make me sound like a millenialist, but the good Lord doesn't have a lot of patience with megalomaniacal construction projects carried out by the corrupt and sinful in that particular corner of the Fertile Crescent."

Great humor! Thanks for the laugh.

Let the rapture begin. Hey guys, you built it in the wrong place.

they must first build icons showing the strength of the empire.

:grr:

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

talking about this non-stop. Have it all over the Web since none of the MSM in this country will do it. I heard about this embassy, but just seeing that pic has made me furious.


I want to email now, but could someone list some of the blog sites to write to? Thanks.

=$152 million per day. To whom, I wonder...

Do the math, everyone.

IMO, this is one of the greatest unreported stories ever.

It has dropped about 40 percent since the invasion because of attacks on pipelines and wells

Can't say that I blame the Iraqis for trying to keep us from stealing their oil

The oil isn't metered now.

-Hoot

Take a look here:

http://www.iags.org/iraqpipelinewatch.htm

It also details attacks by Iraqis on the oil infrastructure, we're up to 309 as of April Fool's Day.



http://www.iags.org/n050904b.htm

thought the billions of dollars appropriated was for the troops and that Iraqi oil revenue would pay for reconstruction?

This is a crime beyond belief and it needs to be handed over to the Iraqi people and this criminal adminstration should never, ever profit from it.

We need to see those energy meeting hearings. When was this all planned? This took time.

Whenever I think I can't be more disgusted by these crooks, I'm always wrong ~ someone has to stop them ~ where is our government?

Yesterday, congresscritters passed a 'resolution' declaring 'it's not the policy of the U.S. to have a permanent presence in Iraq"......transparent fig leaf, no?



:rofl:

:rofl:

This is made-for TV.

The recitation of the raw numbers alone would cause an uproar. At least among the majority of Americans.

But, since when have a majority of Americans stopped anything, lately?

fuel their cars and wait for water pipes to be connected, the US mission due to open in June next year will have its own power and water plants to cater for a population the size of a small town"

Not to mention all the KILLING. How sickening, and sad. :(

It's a base

:puke:

PAID for this shit!

I call it a HUGE "target of opportunity" that will be destroyed after we're kicked out of THEIR COUNTRY. :puke:

life here.

north pole with their deadly cargo destined for New Jersey.

along the lines of "House" or whatever the name was where the roommates eliminated each other.

It could be called "The New Hague" and all of the war criminals could be sent there. It's probably already wired for sound and video. Corporate Media could do exposes on it and give us their opinions while a split screen shows the true intrigue being shaped by the power players; example: Rove and Cheney smiling together while they are both plotting the demise of the other while, at the same time, Leeden is lying to both of them and Bush is reading "My Pet Goat". I think it would be a fun show, I think the Iraqi's would even like it if Chalabi and a few others were included.

Who would be the last man or woman standing? Final elimination prize could be a life sentence.

What's next? Renaming the Washington Monument the Bush Monument, after making it twice as tall and placing a pair of spherical oil tanks at the base?

The only thing Bush deserves to have named after him is an outhouse. He makes Eric Cartman look like a selfless, caring, and thoughtful boy by comparison.

:puke:

NT!

Is that why the troops are short on armor and other needs?

:patriot:

This is a monument to the Neo Fascist Regime of America. Imperial Hubris paid for by the American Middle Class.

himself "The King of the Universe"?

or our children's lifetime?

Time will tell.