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10-10-2007, 06:05 AM
Construction of the U.S. embassy in Iraq, set to open in September, is projected to cost $792 million, with a staff of 1,000 people and operating costs totaling $1.2 billion a year. It will be a 104-acre complex, which is the size of approximately 80 football fields. On May 10, .. the ballooning size and cost of the embassy in a hearing with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice:
Now, having said over and over again that we don't want to be seen as an occupying force in Iraq, we're building the largest embassy that we have — probably the largest in the world — in Baghdad. And it just seems to grow and grow and grow. … We agree that we should focus our aid locally not in Baghdad, but we have 1,000 Americans at the embassy in Baghdad. You add the contractors and the local staff it comes to 4,000.
Some previews of the compound's planned swimming pool and tennis courts:
The complex "will include two office buildings, one of them designed for future use as a school, six apartment buildings, a gym, a pool, a food court and its own power generation and water-treatment plants."
IMAGINE SEEING THIS IN YOUR COUNTRY! WHEN THE PEOPLE WHO CAME IN SAID IT WAS ABOUT - WMD!!!
http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060414/060414_embassy_hmed_3p.hlarge.jpg
Now, having said over and over again that we don't want to be seen as an occupying force in Iraq, we're building the largest embassy that we have — probably the largest in the world — in Baghdad. And it just seems to grow and grow and grow. … We agree that we should focus our aid locally not in Baghdad, but we have 1,000 Americans at the embassy in Baghdad. You add the contractors and the local staff it comes to 4,000.
Some previews of the compound's planned swimming pool and tennis courts:
The complex "will include two office buildings, one of them designed for future use as a school, six apartment buildings, a gym, a pool, a food court and its own power generation and water-treatment plants."
IMAGINE SEEING THIS IN YOUR COUNTRY! WHEN THE PEOPLE WHO CAME IN SAID IT WAS ABOUT - WMD!!!
http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060414/060414_embassy_hmed_3p.hlarge.jpg