The "new & liberated" Fallujah; a FORCED LABOR CAMP???

[LynnTheDem]

FALLUJAH, Iraq -- The US military is drawing up plans to keep insurgents from regaining control of this battle-scarred city, but returning residents may find that the measures make Fallujah look more like a police state than the democracy they have been promised.

Under the plans, troops would funnel Fallujans to so-called citizen processing centers on the outskirts of the city to compile a database of their identities through DNA testing and retina scans. Residents would receive badges displaying their home addresses that they must wear at all times. Buses would ferry them into the city, where cars, the deadliest tool of suicide bombers, would be banned.

One idea that has stirred debate among Marine officers would require all men to work, for pay, in military-style battalions. Depending on their skills, they would be assigned jobs in construction, waterworks, or rubble-clearing platoons.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/12/05/returning_fallujans_will_face_clampdown?mode=PF

Arbeit macht frei!

[Cronus Protagonist]

1. Sometimes Satire Becomes Truth

Although, in this case, based on Nazi history, it was more a future likelihood than just a satirical cartoon....

http://bushspeaks.com/home.asp?did=121

[bluestateguy]

2. Sounds like Poland in 1939

Where can I check-off the box on my tax returns to not pay for this?

[Tinoire]

3. Glad you posted this

I shudder to think of how history will judge us.

[Disturbed]

4. Colony Iraq

Soon the entire country will become as Fallouja has become but after the bogus elections Iraq will be called the new Democracy of the ME. The U.S. Military will stay to defend this new Democracy for at least antother 100 years or until the oil is depleted.

[Q]

5. This is forced slave labor...

...meanwhile, private (Halliburton) Contractors are getting a thousands bucks a day.

[mattclearing]

7. While it only barely mitigates the repugnance of this,

It says they will get paid.

Compulsory labor doesn't work for me though.

So much for a free Iraq.

[THUNDER HANDS]

6. this cannot be seriously happening

Please...if aliens exist, swoop down and take me away...please...

[Stephanie]

8. They must wear badges? They would be forced to work for U.S.?

THIS is Nazism, it's beyond the pale, this is utterly reprehensible. Who will stop Bush & Cheney & Rumsfeld, the axis of evil? I call on EUROPE to save America from itself.

[sadiesworld]

9. So many possibilities for experimentation in Iraq.

[robbedvoter]

10. Spreading freedom and liberty!

So proud!