A WALL? That's Bush's plan to end Iraq's civil war: A WALL?

[ProSense]

U.S. Erects Baghdad Wall to Keep Sects Apart

By EDWARD WONG and DAVID S. CLOUD
Published: April 21, 2007

BAGHDAD, April 20 — American military commanders in Baghdad are trying a radical new strategy to quell the widening sectarian violence by building a 12-foot-high, three-mile-long wall separating a historic Sunni enclave from Shiite neighborhoods.

Soldiers in the Adhamiya district of northern Baghdad, a Sunni Arab stronghold, began construction of the wall last week and expect to finish it within a month. Iraqi Army soldiers would then control movement through a few checkpoints. The wall has already drawn intense criticism from residents of the neighborhood, who say that it will increase sectarian tensions and that it is part of a plan by the Shiite-led Iraqi government to box in the minority Sunnis.

A doctor in Adhamiya, Abu Hassan, said the wall would transform the residents into caged animals.

“It’s unbelievable that they treat us in such an inhumane manner,” he said in a telephone interview. “They’re trying to isolate us from other parts of Baghdad. The hatred will be much greater between the two sects.”

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Ceaseless violence is what led American commanders in Adhamiya to build a wall to break contact between Sunnis and Shiites. It is the first time the Americans have tried a project of that scope in Baghdad. The soldiers jokingly call it “The Great Wall of Adhamiya,” according to military officials.

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[FVZA_Colonel]

1. This... is not going to end well.

Though gigantic fucking walls built right down the middle of a city usually never do.

[StClone]

2. Hey they don't steal all of their stuff from the Nazi's

Some they lifted from the the Iron Curtain brochures.

[Fozzledick]

14. Don't be so sure

The first step to create the Warsaw ghetto was building a wall around it.

[Ian David]

3. If they build a wall..

Stupid Mongolians will only come and knock it down.

[Buzz Clik]

4. I can hear it now, from President Bush 47: "Muqtada al-Sadr, tear down this wall!"

Truly, has Shrub ever once read a book of history? Even real recent history?

[Whoa_Nelly]

5. Radical new strategy my ass!

Yeah..New Strategy :eyes:


Fence'em In, and Keep'em Out and Under Control

[ProSense]

17. That's classic. Thanks. n/t

[Democrats_win]

6. Just like American cities. We give our walls the ironic name: freeways.

People who have studied American cities criticize the way freeways cut off various parts of the city. Hey, maybe they should build a freeway. Call it Americanization.

[illinoisprogressive]

7. all in all it's just another Brick in the Wall

[wisteria]

8. They must be doing this so that they have time to bomb,bomb,bomb,bomb,bomb Iran. n/t

[NastyRiffraff]

9. Hey! This must be the secret plan

we keep hearing about! Freedom is on the march! :sarcasm:

[driver8]

10. Hey -- the Berlin wall finally came down...

and chucklenuts puts up a new one!!

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[Erika]

11. Anyone read the novel "The Wall"?

What happened to one Iraq?

[madrchsod]

12. great wall of china,,walls of jericho,hadrian's wall,

warsaw ghetto walls,berlin wall,irsael`s wall,now the baghdad wall...

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

19. Let's not forget the Maginot Line...

Built by the French during the 1920's to prevent a German invasion. Aside from World War II, it worked just fine...

[ProudDad]

13. The idiots learned it

from the Israelis.

The Israeli Apartheid wall has worked great for them :sarcasm:

[mloutre]

15. Oy. Enough with the sects and violence already.

All in all it's just another kick in the balls.

[HuffleClaw]

16. next they'll decide the sunnis and shia will have to wear little badges n/t

[ProSense]

18. Iraqis Protest Construction of Wall

Iraqis Protest Construction of Wall

By ALISSA J. RUBIN and JON ELSEN
Published: April 23, 2007

BAGHDAD, April 23 — American and Iraqi officials appeared today to be moving away from a plan to build a wall around a mostly Sunni neighborhood here.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki said Sunday he was ordering a halt to construction of the wall around the Adhamiya neighborhood. And American officials, who did not immediately concur, indicated today they would go along with Mr. Maliki.

“Obviously we will respect the wishes of the government and the prime minister,” the American ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, said in a news conference today.

Large crowds gathered today in Adhamiya, near the mosque of Abu Hanifa, overlooking the Tigris River, and marched through the streets of the Sunni Arab enclave bordered by Shiite areas to protest the planned wall.

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