Colcam: Bush's Great Wall Of Baghdad.

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Bush's Great Wall Of Baghdad.

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.

UPDATE 1 at 18.08

UPDATE 2 at 23.24

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Labels: Bush, Iraq, War

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We've been there done that. Has Bush never read a history book? Was he asleep most of his life or just too damn drunk to pay attention? Either we never learn from our mistakes, or we repeat them because the same folks are still hanging around in charge.

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