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Ten years ago this week, Americans woke up to learn that the United States had invaded Iraq.
They had been told it would cost $50 billion and that it would end soon.
Forty-two days later the President declared Mission Accomplished, and that the U.S. would be greeted as liberators.
That all didn't work out as planned.
What did work out was a luxurious compound in the heart of Baghdad on the banks of the Tigris where the thousands of Americans who would remain behind could work, shop, eat, and relax in a palatial, $750 million embassy.
Here's the Chancellery Building — located at the intersection of "Broadway" and "Main Street" within the compound.
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Here, a man carries dry cleaning past the blast walls that surround the dining facility.
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This is the Annex I building. The embassy compound is larger than Vatican City, and contains a food court and a shopping mall where embassy staff can spend their hazard pay.
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