And I'm sure there won't be any torture rooms in the basement.

Can you say "permanent presence"? I thought you could. The Age:

The plans are a state secret, so just where the Starbucks and Krispy Kreme stores will be is a mystery. But as the concrete hulks of a huge 21-building complex rise from the ashes of Saddam's Baghdad, Washington is sending a clear message to Iraqis: "We're here to stay."

It's being built in the Middle East, but George W's palace, as the locals have dubbed the new US embassy, is designed as a suburb of Washington.

An army of more than 3500 diplomatic and support staff will have their own sports centre, beauty parlour and swimming pool. Each of the six residential blocks will contain more than 600 apartments.

The prime 25-hectare [~62 acres] site was a steal — it was a gift from the Iraqi Government. And if the five-metre-thick [~16.5 feet] perimeter walls don't keep the locals at bay, then the built-in surface-to-air missile station should.

What I don't understand is why we would need to fire a surface-to-air missile at an insurgency that's in its last throes. Another Krispy Kreme, Donald?