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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (75034)	5/2/2007 12:41:56 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

Don Stott - "Bush Palace" : So you think we're going to leave Iraq? We're just there until they get their act together? Pay your income taxes this year? Wonder where some of it is going? How about a billion dollar embassy in Iraq? Yes, that's correct. A 124 acre 'embassy,' with 21 buildings, its own power generating system, its own wells and water purifying system, its own gyms, swimming pools, beauty parlors, theatres, and built in surface to air missile system. It's larger than the Vatican, and its walls are over 15 feet thick. It will have 600 apartments, and 3500 people will work there. It is floodlit at night, and the price for the land was pretty cheap. It was a gift from the provisional government we put in place! You thought Saddam had marvelous palaces? His were shacks compared to the new US embassy, which will be completed next month. Naturally, the Iraqis hate it, and us too, for that matter. No wonder! Their toilets won't flush, their light bulbs won't burn most of the time, and a thousand of them die each week. They regularly spray graffiti the exterior walls, and wish to heaven we'd just get OUT. Obviously, we have no intention of getting out, or would we be building the largest embassy in the world? Many people doubt me when I say that government is out of control. Really? Bush has said that they, "fail to appreciate the sacrifice the US has made in Iraq." Counting the troops, there are over 400,000 Americans in Iraq, and it is still a lawless jungle. 1800 bodies were deposited in the Baghdad morgue last July, and the murder and terror is far worse now. In Basra, the second largest city, which the Brits supposedly had neutralized and made peaceful, the city has become a combat zone with the Shiite militias and warlords fighting the Brits and US for control. The city becomes more islamicised by the day, with music and liquor shops bombed out of existence. Women are made to wear headscarves, and board games are outlawed. Sort of like Afghanistan? Most of the professional people have left Iraq, including 12,000 doctors. Why not? Iraqi Airways has more than doubled its flights to Damascus, and there are 50 bus trips to Jordan every day. Taxi fares to Amman are US $750. Not cheap to escape the American destruction, is it? A cop's worst nightmare: A call to settle a fight between a husband and wife. They both take sides against the cop, usually. The exact same thing has happened in Iraq. The Sunnis and Shiites both hate American soldiers and workers. Get out now? Damned right! We're the cause of the civil war! The utter waste of that billion dollar boondoggle blows my mind. Send this column to your Congressman or Senator! coloradogold.com