Poster Child

This is the best poster child for the Iraq adventure:

The Post off-leads on word that the planned U.S. embassy in Baghdad could cost $144 million more than projected and looks set to open months behind schedule thanks to poor planning, shoddy workmanship, and infighting at the State Department. The price tag for the massive 21-building complex, set to be the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in the world, has now spiraled to nearly three quarters of a billion dollars; it won't be finished until early 2009.

You. And I. Both know that this building will ultimately be occupied by insurgents, just like the U.S. did in Saddam's palaces.