It’s Not What they Say; It’s What they Do
by Jeff Davis
The key to understanding what is going on in the minds of our lords and masters in Washington DC is to look at what they DO, not what they SAY. Judging by what they DO. Using this criteria, it is crystal clear the United States has no intention of EVER leaving Iraq.
As always, we have to turn to foreign newspapers for information on what the United States is doing. This information no longer makes it into the American news media. The Guardian newspaper in the U. K. reports on the ongoing construction of the mammoth United States Embassy in Baghdad: “The compound, by the side of the Tigris, would be a statement of President Bush’s intent to expand democracy through the Middle East. Yesterday, however, the entire project was under fresh scrutiny as new details emerged of its cost and scale. Rising from the dust of the city’s Green Zone it is destined, at $592m (£300m), to become the biggest and most expensive US embassy on earth when it opens in September. It will cover 104 acres (42 hectares) of land, about the size of the Vatican. It will include 27 separate buildings and house about 615 people behind bomb-proof walls.”
The bureaucratic peons among our empire’s busy civil servants will be compelled to live rough. The Guardian reports that “Most of the embassy staff will live in simple, if not quite monastic, accommodation in one-bedroom apartments.The US ambassador, however,” (read Imperial Viceroy in Iraq) “will enjoy a little more elbow room in a high-security home on the compound reported to fill 16,000 square feet (1,500 sq metres). His deputy will have to make do with a more modest 9,500 sq ft. ‘They will have a pool, gym and communal living areas, and the embassy will have its own power and water supplies.’ ” (more…)