US Imperial Mother Ship Has Landed

[boutons_deux]

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/02/07/world/middleeast/20120208-BAGHDAD-2.html

dubya was trying to outdo the opulence of Saddam's palaces.

But $1B for this shit defacing Bagdad to protect/enrich US/UK oilcos, but we cut Medicare, Medicaid, Pell grants, etc, etc.

[cheguevara]

:lol "embassy" who the fuck they think they foolin

:lol where is the line to apply for Visas

[Leetonidas]

Wrong forum brah

[Leetonidas]

Although I will say that shit looks like a fucking five-star resort :lol

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

Pretty posh set up over there. Trade RJ and Blair for it.

[boutons_deux]

Now, more than five years later, we have the first public photos of the embassy -- a pool, basketball court, tennis courts, and food court to die for -- just as the news has arrived that the vast boondoggle of a place, built for three-quarters of a billion of your tax dollars, with a $6 billion State Department budget this year and its own mercenary air force, is about to get its staff of 16,000 slashed.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/

[DarrinS]

Meh, you could almost start up two Solyndra's for that.

[boutons_deux]

Darrin still beating the bogus Solyndra dead horse

[Winehole23]

did $1B suddenly become chump change to so-called small government conservatives?

[Winehole23]

wrong thread

[Wild Cobra]

Things are grand in the region because without the show of wealth, you are nothing to the rich people who have power over their. To be treated equal, you have to adhere to their standards.

Aren't you liberals suppose to understand cultural diversity and embrace it?

[boutons_deux]

Don't you Repugtards know by know (of course not) that alien, tribal, corrupt, non-Euro culturs haven't been and won't be ripe of "democracy" for decades and decades?

I thought they were supposed to play our uplifting game rather than US stooping to their backwards culture.