Embassy No. 1

With most of the reconstruction effort in Iraq either going badly or not at all, there’s one project at least that is proceeding as planned.

The $592 million [American] embassy occupies a chunk of prime real estate two-thirds the size of Washington’s National Mall, with desk space for about 1,000 people behind high, blast-resistant walls. The compound is a symbol both of how much the United States has invested in Iraq and how the circumstances of its involvement are changing.

The US embassy in Iraq when completed will be the largest embassy in the world but the US government has never explained why such a monstrosity is necessary or justified for a country with a population of 20 million people. This underscores that the real purpose of the invasion was never about liberating the Iraqi people, but about establishing a permanent and dominating US presence in Iraq – in other words, tyranny.

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