Bush on Iraq: "If You Build It, They Will Come [And Probably Bomb It in the Process]"

To those of us still following the news out of Iraq, there isn’t much out of the ordinary to report. Day in and out, the news from Iraq is a laundry list of the Bush administration’s failures in going to war. You’re all familiar with the infinite number of mistakes and missteps Bush, Rumsfeld, Rice, and others in the Pentagon committed in going to war and later in the rebuilding of Iraq, so I won’t bother to recount them here. (But for those of you interested for more, the Iraq Coalition Casualty Count keeps an updated record of all reported coalition casualities.)

But the latest of Bush’s blunders in Baghdad would be funny if it weren’t so embarrassing. As Alternet reports today, the Bush administration is in the midst of building the largest, most fortified American embassy in the world in Baghdad, a sprawling $592 million dollar complex whose contract was awarded to a Kuwaiti construction company in a dubious bidding process.
Iraqis still can’t count on reliable electricity, water, or even basic physical safety. But, hey, a well-lit house and safe streets are overrated as long as you can glance across the Tigris and get a good look at what the Iraqis are referring to as “George W.’s Palace,” right?

Just another proud example of how out of touch the Bush administration is with Iraqi public opinion. But as voters in this country can attest, that’s not exactly shocking, is it?