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IcyPeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-10 02:21 PM
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Our new embassy in Iraq is the size of the Vatican and will cost billions.

This article is from 2007 so I don't know if it has been mentioned here a long time ago. So forgive me if it has. I didn't know about it until listening to Thom Hartman this morning when he mentioned we are building an embassy in Iraq the size of the Vatican.

We are spending millions building it and it will cost billions to run it. Imagine if another country built an embassy like this somewhere in the USA? It's mind boggling.

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The Mega-Bunker of Baghdad
The new American Embassy in Baghdad will be the largest, least welcoming, and most lavish embassy in the world: a $600 million massively fortified compound with 619 blast-resistant apartments and a food court fit for a shopping mall. Unfortunately, like other similarly constructed U.S. Embassies, it may already be obsolete.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/11/langewiesche200711



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Democrats_win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-10 02:24 PM
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1. They've got to do something with the money they're not giving to the unemployed!
It really is sickening. And the result of this nonsense will be four-dollars-a-gallon gas.
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CountAllVotes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-10 02:27 PM
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2. it is already $4 a gallon here
Just yesterday the sign said $3.89 which is very close to $4.00 gallon.

Can I hear $5.00 a gallon.

Can I hear $6.00 a gallon.

Gasoline prices are just the tip of the iceberg.

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Democrats_win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-10 02:31 PM
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3. Ouch! And it's not summer driving season yet.
Only about $2.65 in Denver.
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-10 02:32 PM
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4. But, but, 9-11.
:scared:
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-10 02:38 PM
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5. We will have thousands of troops in Iraq forever. nt
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DrDan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-10 02:41 PM
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6. and 1,000 employees if I remember correctly
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