WTF Is It Now?!?

Huge-ass embassy compound in Baghdad to get even huger
The other day we posted the story of the new 104-acre complex going up in the Green Zone. Well, even though it will be the largest embassy in the world, it just won't be large enough --

It's as big as Vatican City and makes the foreign embassies dotting the tree-lined streets of Washington, D.C. look like carriage houses, but the barely-finished U.S. embassy in Baghdad is already primed for growth. Due for completion in September, the $592 million campus is surrounded by concrete blast walls and features green grass gardens, palm-lined avenues, a swimming pool, recreation center, volleyball and basketball courts, a PX, commissary, cinema, retail and shopping areas, restaurants, schools, a fire station, power and water treatment plants as well as telecommunications.

And with months still to pass before it opens, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told a Senate subcommittee in May that additional staffing and housing needs have forced officials to add more structures to the now 21-building site. She asked for an additional $50 million from Congress to make that happen.