'Forget This Democracy Crap'

They are just way too late to do anything positive by staying in Iraq. I have to wonder how much of the aid/reconstruction monies went into building the embassy and other military compounds around Iraq that will likely have to be abandoned if they are in the end forced to leave by the Iraqis? What a pitiful humanitarian debacle.

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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche

They didn't waste much money on the US Embassy in Bagdad. They just took over one of Saddam's legendary Palaces. Rather apres pos, I think.

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"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden

There is an excellent documentary on this, 'Gunner Palace':<br />
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<a href="http://www.gunnerpalace.com/">http://www.gunnerpalace.com/</a><br />
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A quote from the movie:<br />
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'I wanted to be the first guy on my block to get a confirmed kill'.<br />
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ooo-raaa. And they wonder why we draw the Vietnam analogy.<p>---<br>“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”

<a href="http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14173">http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14173</a> <br />
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A U.S. Fortress Rises in Baghdad:<br />
Asian Workers Trafficked to Build World's Largest Embassy<br />
by David Phinney, Special to CorpWatch<br />
October 17th, 2006<br />
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<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-2162249,00.html">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-2162249,00.html</a> <br />
In the chaos of Iraq, one project is on target: a giant US embassy<br />
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Building work at the 104-acre complex, known locally as 'George W's palace', is supposed to be secret, but it is impossible to disguise the cranes dominating the Baghdad skyline <br />
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In a week when Washington revealed a startling list of missed deadlines and overspending on building projects, Congress was told that the bill for the embassy was $592 million (£312 million).<br />
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<p>---<br>Diogenes said:<br />
"I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels."

LOL. Only the yanks would spend half a billion dollars upgrading a palace that was a symbol of decadence to begin with.


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"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden

Dr. Caleb,

I believe Saddam's palace's are only a hostel while the new digs are being constructed for the invaders.

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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche

Like a spoiled child, Bush is going to do it his way one way or another. He has limited time and loosing his influence. In the next little while we'll be seeing Bush pushing harder to get as much out of Iraq as he possibly can. He visions himself as a world leader and wants to leave a legacy before his time is over. In his frame of mind, that's winning (being better then everyone). The worlds biggest embassy and a country full of prisons occupied by those who opposed his ideals.

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Expect little from life and get more from it.