This is a pop quiz question: What covers 104 acres (42 hectares), has 21 buildings including stores, restaurants, schools, a movie theater, a fire station, and facilities for athletics, electricity, telecommunications, water, and wastewater. And has Fifteen-foot-thick walls to protect the complex, with some 5,500 staff who live there and an annual budget that comes to about $1.5 billion?
Give up? Why it's the new US Embassy in Baghdad!! Largest US Embassy in the world and nearly as big as Vatican City!
Aren't you proud of America? What a monument to the decades of stupidity that has been US Iraq policy. Read more about it here.
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