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Hissyspit

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Thu Jun 12, 2014, 11:21 PM Jun 2014

Our Embassy in Baghdad is the Largest & Most Expensive in the World [View all]

@jonathanalter: RT @politicoroger: Our embassy in Baghdad is the largest & most expensive in the world. Get ready to kiss it goodbye.

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it's a goddamn building bigtree Jun 2014 #1
I'm sure the shredders are running constant tonite. roamer65 Jun 2014 #2
And the choppers are standing by nadinbrzezinski Jun 2014 #3
1975 redux. roamer65 Jun 2014 #5
And the regional war taking shape nadinbrzezinski Jun 2014 #7
If its any consolation, you weren't the only one to think that. n/t wandy Jun 2014 #27
Those of us who understand history I guess nadinbrzezinski Jun 2014 #31
$750,000,000 GreatCaesarsGhost Jun 2014 #4
Think the final tab exceeded 1Billion... JCMach1 Jun 2014 #18
That embassy is visible from space. 'The Green Zone' they called it. sabrina 1 Jun 2014 #6
No we do not have 10K troops. nadinbrzezinski Jun 2014 #8
Mercs are still in Iraq, now hired by the Iraqi Government instead of the US. sabrina 1 Jun 2014 #10
Even Mercs are far less nadinbrzezinski Jun 2014 #11
We don't know how many mercs are there now. Apparently they've been flooding the country sabrina 1 Jun 2014 #21
Contractors read mercenaries were to to leave yesterday malaise Jun 2014 #15
Worst than that sabrina 1 malaise Jun 2014 #14
I know, did ANYONE, even THEY believe that?? sabrina 1 Jun 2014 #19
I just want one of them to admit they were wrong malaise Jun 2014 #23
Yes, that would be nice. And an apology to all who died. I doubt that will ever happen UNLESS sabrina 1 Jun 2014 #25
What is frightening was hearing McBlood calling for all of Obama's National Security team to resign malaise Jun 2014 #26
They just finished building it, didn't they? Or we. We. Skip Intro Jun 2014 #9
Well we should find out who got rich building such an obvious malaise Jun 2014 #12
It should be a prison libodem Jun 2014 #13
halliburton....it should never have been built. let's put bush cheney & rumsfeld there spanone Jun 2014 #16
Embassy and airport facilities in Iraq. Built with our taxpayer money. madfloridian Jun 2014 #17
Empires Architecture Octafish Jun 2014 #20
We have money to throw away it appears. A few hundred million here, another billion there. sabrina 1 Jun 2014 #22
7/8 of all the wealth created in human history has been created since 1980. Octafish Jun 2014 #32
They destroyed all the beautiful buildings in Iraq so they could rob the American public as the kelliekat44 Jun 2014 #24
It was basically just a pork project. the iraq version of the bridge to nowhere... KG Jun 2014 #28
K&R Solly Mack Jun 2014 #29
How long until we have to evacuate it? CanonRay Jun 2014 #30
"...and President George W Bush will damn the consequences..." KurtNYC Jun 2014 #33
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