I'm afraid the layman won't benefit from any of this. These are and were purely exercises that benefit the elite, I can assure you.Ajax_the_Great1 wrote:
Neat fact.JahManRed wrote:
When the Normans conquered England they built Castles so the populous knew that they had been conquered.
I personally can't wait to pack up my shit and go over and impose my will on some Iraqi bitches.
An english speaking Iraq by 2010!
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looking at the size of that thing, somehow I doubt there is just "ordinary" embassy stuff in there.
and seriously, 1 Billion $ / year to run it ? that's insane....
and seriously, 1 Billion $ / year to run it ? that's insane....
Workers accuse the Kuwait contractor building the US embassy in Baghdad of labor trafficking and smuggling low-paid South Asians into Iraq.FEOS wrote:
3. Would be interesting to see how many Iraqis were gainfully employed building that "obscenely large" compound for the last few years.
Some interesting reports regarding the Contractor who built it.
Contractor: First Kuwaiti Trading and Contracting, a Kuwait Firm sponsored by Mohammad I. H. Marafie of the powerful Marafie family and managed by Wahdid al Absi, a Christian Lebanese who may have growing political influence in Lebanon.
The company was a $35 million firm in early 2003 and now holds nearly $2 billion in contracts; largely US funded and related to Iraq.
Contract Award: Awarded in summer 2005. The Announcement appeared on FedBizOps one day and then was removed at First Kuwaiti's request – for "security reasons." Sources say the contractor was not pre-approved and never built a US embassy before, especially one with so much classified work. It is also said to have entered the competition late. First Kuwaiti's bid was $60 million or more over the lowest US bidder, Framaco, which has won awards in the past for embassy construction. Numerous US contractors have been hired and then cancelled for classified work. Several are furious.
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14181
Interesting accounts from one of the Foremen working the building.
The Kuwait-based company building the $592-million Baghdad project is the exception. Brutal and inhumane, he says “I’ve never seen a project more fucked up. Every US labor law was broken.”
In the resignation letter last June, Owens told First Kuwaiti and US State Department officials that his managers beat their construction workers, demonstrated little regard for worker safety, and routinely breached security.
http://blog.ultimatism.info/2007/12/u.html
Jasus, I billion a year to run it, it only cost half a billion to build???............American tax dollars well spent? Or oil for food badly spent?B.Schuss wrote:
1 Billion $ / year to run it ? that's insane....
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lol. ironic, of course, but also true in some weird way...JahManRed wrote:
When the Normans conquered England they built Castles so the populous knew that they had been conquered.
Tbh they're hiding Metal Gear in there
Wow, thats a fucking eye-opener. The whole thing is a big fucking mess, there will be no prosperity coming from Iraq, only death. I hate to admit it, but I'm no optimist.JahManRed wrote:
http://blog.ultimatism.info/2007/12/u.html
Nature is a powerful force. Those who seek to subdue nature, never do so permanently.
Another monument to the elaborate architectural spending of our benign government.
Cool, dumb and dumber posts. Chef who roots for terrorists to kill Americans and Cameron who can't be thankful that the US went billions in debt to get rid of a dangerous regime that threatened the M.E. and the world. OMG, America in Iraq must be so important for the Eurotrash to rise up against America for policing an area of the world that controls Europes oil supply. Oh Noes, America is spending billions on its own again to unfuck a region of the world with dick-tators and regimes that are a threat to European countries who are too short sighted and oblivious to take care of themselves and infact try to profit off the regimes by building bunkers and selling weapons to the same people that would invade Saudi Arabia and Iran and completely fuck over the world oil supply while building an army big enough to shit on Europe.IRONCHEF wrote:
Well, our fearless leaders need a place they can "sneak in under the cover of darkness" to boldly declare how safe it is in Iraq... I'm sure it has it's own 747 friendly airstrip too.CameronPoe wrote:
Ridiculous. Strangely reminiscent of the kind of palaces Saddam owned....
That looks like a darn sight more than just a fucking embassy. An expression of imperial ambitions I would say.
America should have let the Nazis have Europe. Maybe we could trade Germany for Mexico so that the Globe has some sort of consistancy.
Basically, when we said we wanted to make Iraq more like America, in practice, we made it much like us in outsourcing but little else.JahManRed wrote:
Workers accuse the Kuwait contractor building the US embassy in Baghdad of labor trafficking and smuggling low-paid South Asians into Iraq.FEOS wrote:
3. Would be interesting to see how many Iraqis were gainfully employed building that "obscenely large" compound for the last few years.
Some interesting reports regarding the Contractor who built it.
Contractor: First Kuwaiti Trading and Contracting, a Kuwait Firm sponsored by Mohammad I. H. Marafie of the powerful Marafie family and managed by Wahdid al Absi, a Christian Lebanese who may have growing political influence in Lebanon.
The company was a $35 million firm in early 2003 and now holds nearly $2 billion in contracts; largely US funded and related to Iraq.
Contract Award: Awarded in summer 2005. The Announcement appeared on FedBizOps one day and then was removed at First Kuwaiti's request – for "security reasons." Sources say the contractor was not pre-approved and never built a US embassy before, especially one with so much classified work. It is also said to have entered the competition late. First Kuwaiti's bid was $60 million or more over the lowest US bidder, Framaco, which has won awards in the past for embassy construction. Numerous US contractors have been hired and then cancelled for classified work. Several are furious.
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14181
Interesting accounts from one of the Foremen working the building.
The Kuwait-based company building the $592-million Baghdad project is the exception. Brutal and inhumane, he says “I’ve never seen a project more fucked up. Every US labor law was broken.”
In the resignation letter last June, Owens told First Kuwaiti and US State Department officials that his managers beat their construction workers, demonstrated little regard for worker safety, and routinely breached security.
http://blog.ultimatism.info/2007/12/u.htmlJasus, I billion a year to run it, it only cost half a billion to build???............American tax dollars well spent? Or oil for food badly spent?B.Schuss wrote:
1 Billion $ / year to run it ? that's insane....
War profiteering ftl.
Take your meds.Lotta_Drool wrote:
Cool, dumb and dumber posts. Chef who roots for terrorists to kill Americans and Cameron who can't be thankful that the US went billions in debt to get rid of a dangerous regime that threatened the M.E. and the world. OMG, America in Iraq must be so important for the Eurotrash to rise up against America for policing an area of the world that controls Europes oil supply. Oh Noes, America is spending billions on its own again to unfuck a region of the world with dick-tators and regimes that are a threat to European countries who are too short sighted and oblivious to take care of themselves and infact try to profit off the regimes by building bunkers and selling weapons to the same people that would invade Saudi Arabia and Iran and completely fuck over the world oil supply while building an army big enough to shit on Europe.IRONCHEF wrote:
Well, our fearless leaders need a place they can "sneak in under the cover of darkness" to boldly declare how safe it is in Iraq... I'm sure it has it's own 747 friendly airstrip too.CameronPoe wrote:
Ridiculous. Strangely reminiscent of the kind of palaces Saddam owned....
That looks like a darn sight more than just a fucking embassy. An expression of imperial ambitions I would say.
America should have let the Nazis have Europe. Maybe we could trade Germany for Mexico so that the Globe has some sort of consistancy.
Yes, we have to intervene on certain conflicts, but Iraq wasn't one of them.
Don't you mean stumble around it chasing your wife with a stick?CameronPoe wrote:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/103/3128 … 04.jpg?v=0
This is the US embassy in Ireland - Ireland being a nation with far deeper and more historic ties with the US than any middle eastern nation. A country that 40 million Americans claim descendancy from. You can walk around it in about 2 minutes.
Realisticly Ireland is not a very important country to anyone, including the Irish which is why they all came to America. Iraq is much more important to the world.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
remember to cover that vent with some plywood or something
Important how? Before the invasion, Iraq was a sandy hole in the ground. The only time anyone paid any attention to it was when Saddam screamed "Look at me, look at me!" while shooting a gun in the air. Otherwise, absolutely non-existent.Lotta_Drool wrote:
Realisticly Ireland is not a very important country to anyone, including the Irish which is why they all came to America. Iraq is much more important to the world.
The only reason anyone cares about it now is that it is such a cesspool of unending violence it has become the proxy war in the War on Terror.
Iraq is only important for the same reason we should drop it and walk away.
Basically... the oil is important, but that's about it. Once the oil is gone, it will be fuck all in its significance.Protecus wrote:
Important how? Before the invasion, Iraq was a sandy hole in the ground. The only time anyone paid any attention to it was when Saddam screamed "Look at me, look at me!" while shooting a gun in the air. Otherwise, absolutely non-existent.Lotta_Drool wrote:
Realisticly Ireland is not a very important country to anyone, including the Irish which is why they all came to America. Iraq is much more important to the world.
The only reason anyone cares about it now is that it is such a cesspool of unending violence it has become the proxy war in the War on Terror.
Iraq is only important for the same reason we should drop it and walk away.
Don't pay attention to him. He's a known asshole.Pug wrote:
Yay, I love dead Americans too.IRONCHEF wrote:
Will it be destroyed and left inhabited because of neverending mortar fire (with any luck!)?
As to the size, what would you expect them to build? Right now they are occupying many Iraqi government buildings. That embassy is probably going to see a lot of use as a fortress.
That's utter bollocks.Lotta_Drool wrote:
Don't you mean stumble around it chasing your wife with a stick?CameronPoe wrote:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/103/3128 … 04.jpg?v=0
This is the US embassy in Ireland - Ireland being a nation with far deeper and more historic ties with the US than any middle eastern nation. A country that 40 million Americans claim descendancy from. You can walk around it in about 2 minutes.
Realisticly Ireland is not a very important country to anyone, including the Irish which is why they all came to America. Iraq is much more important to the world.
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