Colcam: Bush's Great Wall Of Baghdad - Puppet al-Maliki's Words Have Little Effect.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Bush's Great Wall Of Baghdad - Puppet al-Maliki's Words Have Little Effect.

When Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki said during a visit to Egypt on Sunday that the construction of Bush’s Great Wall Of Baghdad must stop, the question was who carried the authority to decide the future of the barriers - Maliki, so-called Prime Minister, democratically elected, or the US military and George Bush.

The answer, it would appear, is that Maliki does not have such authority making him, as many suspected, little more than a puppet whose strings are pulled by Washington, to be ignored and overruled when his opinions do not fit in with the wishes of his masters.

The construction of the three-mile wall in Baghdad continued Monday, a military spokesman for the Iraqi government said, despite Premier Nuri al-Maliki's opposition.

Experts say the building of walls around Sunni districts will increase violence and worsen the lives of thousands of Iraqis

”US troops allege that such walls will help protect civilians but we believe that they will just help fighters to know who to target and where. The construction of walls should stop and the Prime Minister’s decision should be respected,” said Lt. Col. Ala’a Hussein Obadi, senior officer at the Ministry of Interior.

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Labels: Bush, Iraq, War

# posted by Colcam : 1:11 PM

Comments:

"Experts say"

Which experts, I wonder.

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Anonymous : 1:56 PM

Thanks, Anonymous, fair point.

Jassem al-Rheiri, a sociology professor at Baghdad University, for one.

And, I should think, any Iraqi trying to survive in Baghdad could be legitimately described as an expert.

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