(This is the new multi-billion dollar US Embassy in Baghdad)
Huge, expensive and dogged by controversy, the new U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad epitomizes to many Iraqis the worst of the U.S. tenure in Iraq. “It’s all for them, all of Iraq’s resources, water, electricity, security,” said one Iraqi man. “It’s as if it’s their country, and we are guests staying here.”
And this is how we win the hearts and minds of the people in the country we are occupying. It’s such a slap in the face for the poor Iraqi’s across the river, to see this monstrosity going up using their resources and foreign labor.
If there is anyone out there who thinks that we do not intend to occupy Iraq for many years in order to steal their oil, please tell me why we have built this huge embassy and five permanent military bases in Iraq.
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