An American Plantation in Baghdad
by Pierre Tristam
07/26/07
We’ve known about the Bush administration’s Fortress of Folly for a while. It’s one of Iraq’s endless occupation-bred, American-made scandals: the $600 million American ‘embassy compound’ redrawing Baghdad’s skyline along the Tigris River — and American designs on the Middle East. But like every scandal with this administration — from sleeping at the wheel of 9/11 to nonexistent WMDs to Abu Ghraib to the most corrupt Justice Department in history thanks to torture-apologist Alberto Gonzales — the embassy folly continues to evade the din of accountability. A new Congressional Research Service report shows just what the major media are missing, and how illustrative of American imperiousness the compound is becoming...
http://www.pierretristam.com/Bobst/07/cn072607.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Baghdad+embassy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pierre+Tristam
07/26/07
We’ve known about the Bush administration’s Fortress of Folly for a while. It’s one of Iraq’s endless occupation-bred, American-made scandals: the $600 million American ‘embassy compound’ redrawing Baghdad’s skyline along the Tigris River — and American designs on the Middle East. But like every scandal with this administration — from sleeping at the wheel of 9/11 to nonexistent WMDs to Abu Ghraib to the most corrupt Justice Department in history thanks to torture-apologist Alberto Gonzales — the embassy folly continues to evade the din of accountability. A new Congressional Research Service report shows just what the major media are missing, and how illustrative of American imperiousness the compound is becoming...
http://www.pierretristam.com/Bobst/07/cn072607.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Baghdad+embassy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pierre+Tristam
rudkla - 27. Jul, 11:05
