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Thursday, May 04, 2006

Good News from Iraq

The damned liberal media is, of course, failing to report on a success in Iraq:

In the chaos of Iraq, one project is on target: a giant US embassy

THE question puzzles and enrages a city: how is it that the Americans cannot keep the electricity running in Baghdad for more than a couple of hours a day, yet still manage to build themselves the biggest embassy on Earth?
Irritation grows as residents deprived of air-conditioning and running water three years after the US-led invasion watch the massive US Embassy they call “George W’s palace” rising from the banks of the Tigris.
While families in the capital suffer electricity cuts, queue all day to fuel their cars and wait for water pipes to be connected, the US mission due to open in June next year will have its own power and water plants to cater for a population the size of a small town.

The embassy has the distinction of being the only big US building project in Iraq that is on time and within budget.

Let's do a quick recap of this portion of the George Bush World Tour:

1. Saddam Hussein had massive palaces while some of his people were left wanting.