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The new US embassy in Baghdad has been opened, with a dedication ceremony attended by the Iraqi president. The compound is one of the biggest and most expensive embassies the US has ever built, and was opened amid heavy security in the Iraqi capital…

The new complex, which will house a total of 4,000 staff, has been built with security very much in mind. Oh. Are we to infer the folks who live nearby, in the nation, perhaps the entire region – don’t care to lay down their lives for the United States?

The opening ceremony was led by Ambassador Ryan Crocker and attended by US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.

Mr Talabani thanked the US for helping to create a democratic Iraq “which will serve as a model for other peoples of the eastern world”.

There is little I might offer in comment about this spew. The United States built a command and control center to manage imperial armies throughout the Middle East. The whole nightmare was scripted by fools like Dick Cheney and Jeb Bush with his brother as front-man and flunky.

Their schedule required the handover to an Iraqi civilian government and celebration of this Maginot Zone of Democracy. The fact this has been a costly failure forced the celebration to happen with a certainty – ahead of Obama’s inauguration.