The new US embassy in the Green Zone has been completed, but they neglected to build enough armored housing so hundreds of embassy employees are sleeping in “tin-can trailers” with “no overhead protection.” Some have taken to wrapping themselves in Kevlar blankets when they sleep. Sweet dreams?
Green Zone reconstruction?
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Quoting Jon Stewart (in the future): “Whaaaaaaaa? (rubbing eyes)”
Perhaps the Bushies plan on importing competent people, as opposed to cronies, to run the embassy, and therefore don’t care if they get killed in the process.
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