ATTENTION DUers Who Post on Other Websites!!!!

Okay, this is shameless - and I admit it!

But if you regularly post on other websites, I am hoping to spread the word across the internet about the BILLION DOLLAR US Embassy currently being constructed in Baghdad -- an insult to the people of Iraq being perpetrated, of course, at the taxpayers' expense.

Please go to:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2637379

Hopefully, you will join us in this LET EVERYONE KNOW project.

No 'recommends' are necessary, but your help is.

(Please?)

Obviously Not-To-Proud-To-Beg,
Nancy Greggs

Halliburton-style.

I was already awake when this bunch of crooks pulled their coup back in '00 and the thing that troubles me is everyone didn't wake the f up with the vp's secret energy meetings. 3 bucks a gallion and still rising.

It has nothing to do with my personal feelings toward you, my Argentine firecracker.

:blush:

PS - She ain't Argentine, but she is a firecracker...

:rofl: :hi:

:hi:

http://allspinzone.com/blog/index.php?blogid=1&archive=2006-5-3

Second post down: George Bush's is bigger than Saddam Hussein's

It's the second one I've done. The first was about the slave labor used by First Kuwaiti Trading Co. that I read about at corpwatch:

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12675

This story, outrageous as it is in and of itself, will be another nail in the GOP coffin in November.

I want to see the Repubs who voted for this appopriation of funds to explain to the parents of dead or wounded soldiers who were denied $700 worth of body armor WHY these funds were available. Add in the Katrina victims who are still homeless, and the veterans whose benefits were just slashed again!

Aren't all the bases there called "embassies"?

Middle East Operations.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/3876208.html

There are other news stories trickling out as well.

Reading now.

Too bad those record-breaking profits are stretched too thin to build their own fuckin' palace.

Maybe if all of the Big Oil execs switched from butter to margarine, they could manage to make ends meet.

Since they published the pictures of the embassy to be, I've been harping on it, the $$$ wasted, the staying in Iraq forever. Your letter says it all, and says it well. Thanks!

Worth the effort. I will help spread this information.
Our Nation NEEDS to know what their money and the lives of their children are buying.

The US Embassy in Babel....ah, Baghdad. (my bad)

Financed by Arrogance, Greed and the blood and wealth of YOUR CHILDREN!

The Baghdad US Embassy's page here is announcing two, count 'em, two jobs available for program Assistants in the Cultural Affairs Office.

And you scoffers don't believe the Dictator-Tot's mis-Administration is creating jobs. Get with the program, people. Jump on in, the Kool-Aid is fine.

There are a couple of ways you can look at the new $600 million, 21 building U.S. embassy now being built on 104 US-owned acres of land deep in the heart of Baghdad, Iraq.

Like Liberal Politics Guide Deborah White, you can look at the largest embassy ever built by anybody, anywhere in the world, and designed to house 8,000 US staff workers as "an American embassy-palace the likes of which the world has never before seen -- larger and more lavish than Hussein's palaces."

Or, you can look at the campus featuring tennis courts, a movie theater and the largest swimming pool in all of Iraq, like State Department spokesman Justin Higgins, as quoted on FOXNews.com, who finds, "The size of the embassy is in keeping with the goals of we have set for Iraq." Or like Sen. Richard Lugar's (R-Indiana) spokesman Andy Fisher, who told FOXnews.com, "There is a requirement for that kind of presence at this time in Iraq."

http://usgovinfo.about.com/b/a/217176.htm

First the $600 million number is wrong, isn't it $7b? And what is this "goals set for Iraq business?

According to the Idiot-in-Chief, the 'goals' set for Iraq were to rebuild schools, hospitals, water treatment facilities, a new electrical grid, et cetera.

Instead, the Iraqi people are getting another (but bigger and more lavish) reminder of the type of regime US soldiers died to 'liberate' them from.

And just to pile on ANOTHER thing that outrages me about all of this is the 'These are not funds allocated to rebuilding Iraq, but were appropriated in an emergency session of Congress' bullshit.

Yeah, like if you steal ten bucks out of pocket, it's somehow DIFFERENT than stealing it out of my purse!

MONEY IS MONEY -- and every cent they're spending belongs to the AMERICAN PEOPLE. Which account you steal it from is of no consequence.

most replies are "Why not use one of Saddam's palaces?"

...and "what a great letter!" :hi:

I guess Saddam's existent palaces were just too humble and under-stated!

As they say, those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

I wonder if anyone from this Administration ever saw the photos of the Ipatiev House, where Czar Nicholas and his family wound up living out their (numbered) days, when the people they 'ruled' had had enough.

I wonder if Rummy has revisited those clips of Iraqis looting government buildings -- you know, the 'Democracy is untidy' footage -- and wondered what he will say when this 'embassy' meets with the same fate?

Just wonderin' ...

Loved the letter....you should send it out to the MSM print...LAT, NYT, Trib, etc!

of course.

But one day I may ask a favor...

Army Ranger Jessie Macbeth speaks about War Crimes he and other Rangers committed in Iraq with the encouragement and blessing
of their superiors.

http://www.peacefilms.org /

... and I was too upset to K & R, which I will go back and do immediately.

The topic of TORTURE has been my number one issue for a long time, as per:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2605581

The only reason I started this Embassy thing is because I KNOW it will outrage so many US citizens, which could help turn the tide against the GOP in November.

But on a personal level, it continues to astound me that ordinary citizens weren't OUTRAGED enough by the torture issue -- including the pseudo-Christians who proudly continue their support of the Bush regime in spite of what they have seen, read and heard on this topic.

The "torture-toll", if you will, will be felt for years to come. It will continue to turn the people of the Middle East against Americans; it will haunt the US soldiers who participated in it for the rest of their lives, which, in turn, will haunt the lives of their families, their spouses and their children. Add to that the US soldiers around the world who will suffer the same fate, because this Administration has declared the Geneva Conventions no longer valid during times of conflict.

WE ARE AMERICANS, and we have traditionally valued our status as being 'above' the things our enemies are willing to stoop to. Our credibility on this issue is forever tarnished, and we will suffer the consequences of this Administration's blood-thirst for generations to come.

I HAVE TO BELIEVE that karma, the justice of God (whatever you wish to call it) will eventually turn its wrath against those responsible.

I HAVE TO BELIEVE ... because it's the only thing that keeps me sane in the madness these people have unleashed.

No reason to let the embassy staff itself off the hook, right?

Has its own generators so there is always electricity, unlike the rest of the country. It is ahead of schedule and under budget...

How is that possible when the country is in shambles?

Amazing how they can install water treatment facilities for the future embassy, but Halliburton can only seem to supply contaminated water for the troops to shower in and brush their teeth with.

Right next door in Iran, our embassy was overpowered. This embassy is far more defensible. Do you prefer our personnel be taken hostage?

... will be SO EASY to safeguard.

I hope they've included a holding room for all of the 'sweets and flowers' the Iraqis will be sending - you know, the people who will be visiting the embassy just so they can be reminded of what it was like to have clean water and electricity.

Do I prefer that our personnel be taken hostage? No, I prefer that our personnel get their asses out of there.

It's empire building.

the hell can you defend the indefensible. US troops should not be in the fucking country in the first place and if they get killed its their own goddamn fault!! :mad:

"our personnel"? Who in the fuck is WE??? When did "We" sign onto this madness? :mad: :mad:

if the "freedom fighters" take American embassy personnel hostage?

the attacks of the barbarians.

I'm sure you and your fascist friends will be looking for "traitors" after this mess. Would you be putting me in that category for not accepting your genocide.

I bet you are bible thumper so I'll give you a quote from it:
"Those who live by the sword die by the sword".

The US needs to get the hell out Iraq and have Nuremberg type trial for the perpetrators of this slaughter.

palace being built as well that is larger than the Vatican, or so it was posted here a week ago or so.

and if we don't stand up now and do something about it we will loose the chance. So your request will be granted here. I will never be too proud to beg for the sake of what is right. Thanks for the message.
peace