Throwing food to the lions....here ya go....

[Yawn]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2084288,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront

An element of progress that will certainly get ripped to cybershreads, but eat up anyway, boys!

 

[Ace]

An element of progress? A $300 million embassy that looks like a prison?

 

[spnited]

An element of progress? A $300 million embassy that looks like a prison?

You misread Ace...that 300 mill was pounds.. that's $592 million

And this one quote says it all:

"What you have is a situation in which they are building an embassy without really thinking about what its functions are," Edward Peck, a former American diplomat in Iraq, told AP.

"What kind of embassy is it when everybody lives inside and it's blast-proof, and people are running around with helmets and crouching behind sandbags?"

 

[Ace]

Sorry. Hey, maybe they can name it Fort Baghdad.

 

[spnited]

Or Fort Courage

Bush, Chenye and Rummy = Parmenter, O'Rourke and Agarn
Rove is Wild Eagle.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

How much does the paint for the big old bullseye cost?
It's bigger than Vatican City, for those of you keeping score at home.
Yeah, we're leaving when they stand up or whatever.

 

[Ace]

How much does the paint for the big old bullseye cost?
It's bigger than Vatican City, for those of you keeping score at home.
Yeah, we're leaving when they stand up or whatever.

Did I spot a moat?

And did they leave notches in the walls for the archers?

 

[Football_Bat]

"I fart in your general direction!"

 

[JR]

Already, however, there have been suggestions that the compound will not be large enough to house hundreds of diplomats and military personnel likely to remain in Iraq for some time. Scores of US officials are currently housed in trailers which are vulnerable to bombs landing on their roofs. According to a report by McClatchy News, staff members have complained about the dangers only to be told they must wait until the new embassy is ready to take them in.

There aren't bomb-proof double wides?

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

There are.
They're in the warehouse with the armored Humvees and Colin Powell.

 

[Football_Bat]

I thought they were still sitting in the mud at an airport in Arkansas.