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2010-02-24 Britain
US adds moat to expenses at $1bn London embassy
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Posted by Free Radical 2010-02-24 08:18|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Agreed FR. Plus we'll probably be forced to put British dragons in the moat instead of American ones.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2010-02-24 09:40||   2010-02-24 09:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Mullah, I'm sure you're right and I gaurantee that those Brit dragons have had their teeth pulled and their fire ignition systems removed. They also probably had their tails docked and wear blindfolds too.
Posted by AlanC 2010-02-24 09:57||   2010-02-24 09:57|| Front Page Top

#3 From the design short-list, not selected.
Posted by Besoeker 2010-02-24 10:02||   2010-02-24 10:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Land's probably a bit cheaper in Baghdad than London...

When they sell the land from the old embassy they'll probably make quite a lot of that cost back.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-02-24 10:37||   2010-02-24 10:37|| Front Page Top

#5 

From the design short-list another design not selected.
Posted by Flereth the Eponymous7167 2010-02-24 11:12||   2010-02-24 11:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Gee. Does an unnecessary $1B expense seem more like payback for a wartime favor?
Posted by gorb 2010-02-24 11:16||   2010-02-24 11:16|| Front Page Top

#7 

and another.
Posted by Flereth the Eponymous7167 2010-02-24 11:20||   2010-02-24 11:20|| Front Page Top

#8 I personally have no problem with the expense- or the moat. We need a serious embassy in Londonistan. The moat-monsters should be American, however. Obama can claim them as stimulus jobs.

Would someone mind posting the photo from that article, so people can see if my comments about the design are plausible? I have a fear of breaking the Burg's format/margins.
Posted by Free Radical 2010-02-24 12:08||   2010-02-24 12:08|| Front Page Top

#9 Nice Castle.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-02-24 13:35||   2010-02-24 13:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Now to fill it with "sharks with fricken' laserbeams"
Posted by flash91 2010-02-24 16:10||   2010-02-24 16:10|| Front Page Top

#11 No drawbridge?
Posted by European Conservative 2010-02-24 17:19||   2010-02-24 17:19|| Front Page Top

#12 Eurocon... I wonder if the Citadel of Bitche might be available. For the money being discussed, it could be disassembled and moved to London at half the cost.
Posted by Besoeker 2010-02-24 17:22||   2010-02-24 17:22|| Front Page Top

#13 we'll probably be forced to put British dragons in the moat instead of American ones.

I dunno, would alligators or crocodiles Qualify?
Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-02-24 19:54||   2010-02-24 19:54|| Front Page Top

#14 I understand Shamoo is looking for a new home. Just say'n.
Posted by Besoeker 2010-02-24 20:16||   2010-02-24 20:16|| Front Page Top

#15 Moat? Two oceans and the Rio Grande failed to keep illegals out of the US, and I thought Obama liked illegals.
Posted by Heriberto Uloth5220 2010-02-24 22:34||   2010-02-24 22:34|| Front Page Top

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