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The only way that parking the world's largest US embassy in downtown Baghdad can be justified is by condoning the invasion and current occupation of Iraq. As if two negatives make a right, the first sin justifies the second.

On the other hand, if you believe that in the name of every US citizen, G.W. Bush and company started a war that did not have to happen and has, so far, spent the lives of nearly 50,000 troops dead or not nearly as alive as they were, then everything after that first immoral act is stained and must be abandoned regardless of the costs. The original sin contaminates everything done after and the embassy becomes the proverbial house built on sand.

If you believe that the real rationale for attacking Iraq was to protect America, rather than to feed the military industrial complex and the Republican campaign machine, rather than to fill the pockets of US oil magnates, and/or rather than provide a staging area to invade Iran, then Baghdad Central and the 14 permanent bases under construction around Iraq, must justify themselves.

"The war is a good idea because we are fighting it and the embassy is a good idea because we are building it."

From the moral high ground, there is no way to justify the US presence in Iraq let alone the military and political monuments that symbolize its arrogance. The embassy is a beacon to all that America values money and power over life, and that it will do anything, ANYTHING, to have more. The negative symbolism will trump any and all efforts of diplomacy because they will not be believable.

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