Our taxes bought the biggest and best ... and no one want to go there!

And we can't find even fifty American diplomats to take it on?

Upper picture is a diagram of the Embassy area. Left bottom is the main building and the right bottom is the swimming pool and "swim house."

I quote from John Smart:

"It's not only the largest embassy in the world, it's the largest embassy ever constructed by any nation, anywhere, at any time in history! It's larger than Vatican City and much more secure — the outer walls are 15 feet thick. In a country that has only a couple of hours of electricity a day, the new embassy will have its own generators, and in a society where drinkable water is a scarce and precious commodity, it will have its own water filtration system. The people outside those 15-foot walls might get a bit testy about this display of wealth, don't you think? The Iraqis, accustomed as they were to Saddam's numerous marble extravaganzas are referring to this mega-complex as "George W's Palace." Again, I wonder why? It's costing us billions for sure, although that information is apparently classified. Don't you think we should know what it's for? Or maybe we do know what it's for. Maybe it's all of a piece with the expensive and evidently permanent military bases that the Bush administration is building in Iraq. Maybe the plan all along was to occupy this keystone country in the Middle East for the foreseeable future. Maybe that's why George W. Bush is so angered by the congress's repeated attempts to put timelines and deadlines on our occupation forces: He has no intention of us ever leaving."

And now we learn that we aren't able to find even fifty qualified diplomats to go there. Word out this morning is that anyone who refuses will be fired ... summarily! Mediawingnuts wonders why they can't use the same slave labor that was used to build the blooming thing to become our "diplomats" to Iraq ....

Of course, we now know (thanks to George Tenet's book) that we always intended to occupy Iraq and it's %$#@* oil to/for perpetuity.

Yeesh!