Our BIG DIGS in the desert...

[fooj]

http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/15/our-big-digs-in-the-desert/

The fortress-like compound rising beside the Tigris River here will be the largest of its kind in the world, the size of Vatican City, with the population of a small town, its own defense force, self-contained power and water, and a precarious perch at the heart of Iraq’s turbulent future.

The new U.S. Embassy also seems as cloaked in secrecy as the ministate in Rome.

"We can’t talk about it. Security reasons," Roberta Rossi, a spokeswoman at the current embassy, said when asked for information about the project.

A British tabloid even told readers the location was being kept secret — news that would surprise Baghdadis who for months have watched the forest of construction cranes at work across the winding Tigris, at the very center of their city and within easy mortar range of anti-U.S. forces in the capital, though fewer explode there these days.

U.S. Building Massive Embassy in Baghdad

This is unfrickinbelievable. I have no words.........

[niallmac]

1. Why does our 'bringing Democracy to Iraq' look so much like

an invasion and occupation?

[fooj]

2. No kidding.

[jimshoes]

3. How much of New Orleans could

be rebuilt for the money pit they're building in Iraq? Wankers.

[movonne]

4. Is that where the money is going.. I thought we were to use it to build

back Iraq..

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. On a happier note.... some big digs in the ocean have made

islands in the sun..... but I hear ya... this is NUTS. America has always been adept at taking one side over the other. Pity.