Obama Won't Say 'Mission Accomplished' In Iraq Speech

ENGEL: Exactly. And the reason the streets are still unpaved is that these government officials refuse to pay any taxes to the government. They are in a fight so the government won‘t come and pave the roads or connect it to any kind of sanitation system at all because the same government ministers won‘t pay to register the neighborhood.



MADDOW: So they won‘t throw their weight around to get their neighborhood taken care of, because they don‘t live here anyway.



ENGEL: They don‘t live here anyway. So you have these large homes, and some of these homes - you see this building right behind you?



MADDOW: That looks like a hotel.



ENGEL: No. No. No. They are all private homes.



MADDOW: This is a private home?



ENGEL: It‘s a private home. It probably has 25 bedrooms in it and garish, colonnades and unusual architectural features. And then, they‘ll rent that out to some western client and they‘ll charge either by the bedroom or by the floor or for the whole thing. And if you were to build this one - it‘s obviously under construction - that is a $1 million plus house in Kabul with no paved streets.



KEEP READING
About Barack Obama
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost