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Cost Of U.S. Embassy In Baghdad Spirals Upward
By Karyn Chenoweth Oct 7, 2007, 18:33 GMT
Sub-standard workmanship, bad planning and bureaucratic infighting has pushed the cost of the U.S. embassy in Iraq to an estimated $736 million.
The embassy in Baghdad originally was projected to cost $592 million and be completed last month as the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in the world, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
Now it could cost at least $144 million more and will not be ready until early 2009, U.S. officials told the Post.
The delays and growing cost are seem by many members of Congress as the latest in a series of State Department blunders in Iraq, the newspaper said.
The project has been complicated by a dispute between Ryan C. Crocker, the U.S. ambassador in Iraq, and James L. Golden, the U.S. official charged with overseeing the project. Crocker has banished Golden from Iraq because Golden allegedly disobeyed embassy orders and destroyed evidence during an investigation of a worker's death, sources told the Post.
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And why in this war-torn, crazy country does there have to be such an elaborate embassy, which has the chances of being bombed anyway?? A few offices in a bomb shelter make more sense!
Its the size of St Pauls cathedral and is supposed to have a series of nuclear bunkers and command posts.Just the ideal place to attack Iran.
Operation TIRANNT.
$736m plus another $144m gives us a total of $880 million.
Add on the average rising cost and this works out at a staggering $1000M
This isn't a US Embassy thats being built,
thats for sure..
nor is it a 'U.S. diplomatic mission' ????????
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Jack SmackOct 7th, 2007 - 20:50:42
Another fine example of this right wind administration showing all of us how to be financially responsible. Don't worry we can print more.
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