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KansDem

(28,498 posts)
4. Bush buillt the world's largest embassy
Tue Feb 7, 2012, 03:15 PM
Feb 2012
The World's Biggest Embassy (104 acres, 22 buildings, thousands of staff members, a $116 million vehicle inventory), physically larger than the Vatican, was a sign of our commitment, at least our commitment to excess. "Along with the Great Wall of China," said the ambassador, "it's one of those things you can see with the naked eye from outer space." The newly opened embassy was made up of large office buildings, the main one built around a four-story atrium, with overhead lights that resembled sails. If someone had told us there was a Bath & Body Works in there, we would not have thought it odd.

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http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/baghdad-peter-van-buren-we-meant-well

Yeah, Bush can be blamed for the size of the embassy staff...
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