Why Don't The Bushies Go Shop For a Different War?

Earlier this month, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) traveled to Iraq with a congressional delegation. In an interview with the Minnesota Star Tribune, she described the location of her meeting with General Petraeus (at a former palace in Baghdad) in the following way:

“It’s absolutely huge,” she said. “I turned to my colleagues and said there’s a commonality with the Mall of America, in that it’s on that proportion. There’s marble everywhere. The other thing I remarked about was there is water everywhere. He had man-made lakes all around his personal palace — one for fishing, one for boating.”

Thanks to John Aravosis at Americablog, we have the following quick comparison of Mall of America vs. Baghdad: