Bush's Great Wall Of Baghdad (pic)

[bigtree]

Sunday, April 22, 2007

In the Ghetto: Bush Begins
Forced Ethnic Partition
of Baghdad in the dead of night

Working only at night, heavily guarded by tanks, the Bush Regime in Iraq, taking a cue from Cold War Soviet policy in Berlin – not to mention the enlightened approach of the Israeli government in the West Bank – has begun walling off a Sunni enclave in Baghdad, driving a stake into the heart of the flickering reconciliation efforts among the Iraqi grassroots.

The wall, three miles long, 12ft high, made up of 14,000 pound concrete barriers, is designed to separate Sunni and Shia Muslims, and effectively seals the Sunnis of Adhamiya into a ghetto.



"When the wall is finished, the minority Sunni community of Azamiyah, located on the eastern side of the Tigris River, will be completely gated, and traffic control points manned by Iraqi soldiers will allow authorities to screen people entering and leaving the area, while keeping death squads and militia groups out,” a military spokesman said.

Residents say it will bring even more violence to the area.

As Iraq violence resurges amid the 'surge', and Despair stalks Baghdad, this looks like another desperate plan by the Bush administration that is doomed to failure, and destined to make matters in Iraq even worse, if that is possible.


link: http://colcam.blogspot.com/2007/04/bushs-great-wall-of-baghdad.html


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[SoCalDem]

1. "You kids go to your rooms & don't come out until you can play nice"

A general there (Caldwell) claimed to know nothing about it the other day :eyes:
and today there was an article I saw that said the Sunnis did NOT want to be "walled in"..

Just another GWBCF:)

[madokie]

2. Here we go again, huh

besides animosity what will this accomplish, me wonders. America has been taken over by a crew of felons who should have been incarcerated many many years ago. The longer we wait to do just that the more entrenched they become and the harder it will be to stop them.

damnit to hell anyway

[acmavm]

4. They'd love to 'barricade' us in here too. They'd let us out to work for our

corporate masters and then at the end of the day, back into the box.

[madokie]

7. You know it

we are on a very slippery slope here with this bush* cabal and the sooner everyone wises up to that fact the better, we don't have too much time left

[bigtree]

10. the point made in the blurb about reconciliation

that's the most significant development. Bush has decided to adopt the position that Sunnis are a threat as a whole, and not just 'al-Qaeda elements in their population. He mentioned in a speech last week that 'al-Qaeda was associated with Sunnis.' It was a deliberate move to justify moving more aggressively against their community.

The posturing against Sunnis now is all about their resistance to the new regime which displaced the disproportionate influence the Sunni community enjoyed under Saddam. Their violence is a resistance to the new regime as well as Bush's enabling occupation. The adoption of the al-Qaeda moniker was an unfortunate provocation which plays right into Bush's hands. He's now able to cast the entire Sunni community as an adjunct of his "war on terror" nemesis, al-Qaeda. They are to be the afforded the same treatment as the Palestinians suffer.

They will be even further marginalized from participation and representation in the government by the rhetorical posturing, and they will also now be locked out from employment opportunity, commerce, and freedom of movement by the artificial and arbitrary partitioning.

[formercia]

19. All Sunnis are now enemy combatants

next step is to carpet bomb them into submission.

Our Fuhrer, the great tactician.

[bigtree]

23. reference:

see Israel/Palestine

[formercia]

30. It didn't work their either.

definition of insanity?

[Solly Mack]

3. "Victory" is in its last throes

Put down the shovel already, America!

[Hubert Flottz]

5. Bush has been busy building another wall for years!

Bush won't be happy until his wall has more names on it than the other one.



Send BushCo to Baghdad!

[jedr]

6. Warsaw Poland 1942???????

Perhaps Bush has found the "final solution" for Iraq?

[rodeodance]

8. the answer my friends is a WALL--after 4 years---a WALL

[Hubert Flottz]

9. Yes but it's a really great wall!

That's the kind of "Liberty" Bush wants for us too.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

11. Soweto On The Tigris.

:mad: :cry: :grr:

[Botany]

12. So the Shi don't have mortors?

The wall, three miles long, 12ft high



"..... manned by Iraqi soldiers ......." The Iraqi army is filled w/ Shi.

[bigtree]

20. It's still a barrier to the free movement residents had before we came

and destroyed their way of life with Bush's military muckraking


Community leaders said on Saturday that construction in Adhamiyah began before they had approved the American proposal for the wall, known jokingly among US troops as the "Great Wall of Adhamiyah".

Dawood al-Azami, the acting head of the Adhamiyah council, said: "A few days ago, we met with the US army unit in charge of Adhamiyah and it asked us as a local council to sign a document to build a wall to reduce killing and attacks against Iraqi and US forces.

"I told the soldiers that I would not sign it unless I could talk to residents first. We told residents at Friday prayers, but our local council hasn't signed onto the project yet, and construction is already under way."

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9EF8C1EB-99ED-49C0-8A28-D5A2AD8685E8.htm

[Botany]

22. Less than 6 weeks before bush startd this mess he didn't know about ...

.... Shi ites and Sunnis. bush created a hell on earth and now has our troops
right smack in the middle of 1,300 year old religious spat.

All those republican neo-con bastards need to be flown to Iraq and put out into
the general population.

[The Stranger]

13. U.S. Totalitarianism.

[symbolman]

14. My god

I'm so ashamed of my country. That we allow crooks to turn the world into a Concentration CAMP.

They are practicing GENOCIDE, pass the word, it's just that SIMPLE.

IMPEACH THIS BASTARD, and everyone he rode into Washington with.

[file83]

29. I second that.

This is the most outrageous news to come out of Iraq since Abu-Ghuraib.

Why isn't this thread rated higher?

We are talking about the clear self-contradiction of Bush's entire reason for being in Iraq: "To spread freedom and democracy" - and now this son-of-a-bitch is building walls around communities with guarded checkpoints in between!?

WTF?

Wake up DU.

[bluerum]

15. Holy cow biscuits. GW took the Berlin wall and moved it to Baghdad.

He is an evil genius - without the genius part.

I mean, how many more walls will human beings build to keep some in and others out? Why is this idea of a wall so symbolic? Do people actually think this works? Do people really see this as a viable form of state or municipal government?

How utterly simple minded and misguided.

[bigtree]

16. They've definitely decided to continue their repression of the Sunnis

which began when they launched attacks on their community in advance of their manufactured elections held at the pleasure and with the cooperation of the Shiite religious leaders. To be openly oppressing the Sunnis is an amazing abandonment and makes a lie out of any lip service they gave to minority rights when they first drove them from power and influence in Iraq. The wall is a monument to their repression.

[lyonn]

31. Yup, and the rest of the Arab world is pissed, after all, they are

the majority, Sunnis.

That wall looks like the usual barricades used all over Iraq protecting bldgs. Course there isn't much to protect since Rummy has bombed just about everything. Guess they need to move on to another country where there are better targets. Remember that was said by someone in this admin. that Afghanistan didn't have any good targets and that we should overthrow Saddam instead.

Another thing, what happen to any kind of discussion or use of diplomacy to get the 3 factions in Iraq to agree on settling their disagreements and the oil issue? Naw, just build dumbass barricades around neighborhoods.

[bigtree]

17. Update On Bush's Great Wall Of Baghdad.

Since this earlier post today, the US military has announced it is extending its scheme of erecting concrete barriers around districts in Baghdad,

An official has said it is extending its scheme of erecting concrete barriers around districts in Baghdad, calling them "gated communities".


http://colcam.blogspot.com/2007/04/update-on-bushs-great-wall-of-baghdad.html

[formercia]

21. the irony is palpable.

"gated communities"is where terrorists and criminals hang out.

[file83]

28. So this is Bush's idea of "FREEDOM" & "DEMOCRACY".

Can we impeach this guy yet?

[uppityperson]

18. Are these people nuts? rhetorical question. nt

[stevedeshazer]

24. How long before they build one around the White House?

Oh, wait...

[tblue37]

25. Mr. President, "Tear down that wall!" (eom)

[tblue37]

26. Mr. President, "Tear down that wall!" (eom)

[Rex]

27. That is repuke mentality - I can't fix a problem, so I will wall it in and

try my best to forget about the problem. This is why America has been going downhill since 2000, well since they took over in the 1980s. Garbage in, garbage out.

[Straight Shooter]

32. "Freedom is on the march!"

Well, apparently freedom has fallen and it can't get up.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

33. It's a monument to desperation. A wall of PR around a lost war.

[MzNov]

34. Very good analogies. Well said.