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2007-04-22 Iraq

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-04-22 17:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Good luck, Mal!

Posted by Bobby 2007-04-22 17:05|| 2007-04-22 17:05|| Front Page Top

#2 He did not elaborate but added "this wall reminds us of other walls," in an apparent reference to the wall that divided the German city of Berlin during the Cold War.

I'm suprised that the author missed his chance to sideswipe Israel's security barrier. It is supposed to be an equally hateful sign of repression and subjugation. Funny how Palestinian vest bombings have dropped so precipitously since its construction. I guess he didn't want to risk having people make any connection between walls and actual protection.

With each passing day Maliki becomes more and more an enemy of our troops. The Azamiyah wall would have established choke points whereby both Sunni and Shiite terrorists could be intercepted. Instead, the mayhem will continue unabated and more of America's finest will die because of it.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-22 17:16|| 2007-04-22 17:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Fiddling while Iraq burns

Posted by Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-04-22 17:48|| 2007-04-22 17:48|| Front Page Top

#4 I suspect that his real reason was that the Sunnis are scared of a wall, because it is like something Saddam would have done to a hated minority--like Sadr City.

It goes against what they are hoping for in the new Iraq, that they won't be ghettoized in part of the city.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-04-22 18:09|| 2007-04-22 18:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Displacement and ghettoization are natural and normal effects of a conflict like this. That old cause and effect mystery biting Middle Easterners in the rear again. Azamiyah's elders might have considered the consequences of abetting yet more murderous violence against their countrymen (or not actually fighting same) when the occupiers rolled in and the old system collapsed.

On the whole it's starting to seem that Iraqi Sunnis in mixed areas have a future similar to that of the Germans of East Prussia in 1945. My sympathies are similar, as well.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-04-22 19:20|| 2007-04-22 19:20|| Front Page Top

#6 So he's against it, after he was for it?

Posted by KBK 2007-04-22 19:54|| 2007-04-22 19:54|| Front Page Top

#7 So where is the US response, that SHOULD go something like this: STFU, until you can prove you have a plan.

if this is needed to give our forces cover to 'assist the Iraqis, then build the freaking wall and let al-Malibu simmer.

Posted by USN, ret. 2007-04-22 21:31|| 2007-04-22 21:31|| Front Page Top

#8 STFU, until you can prove you have a plan.

I'm afraid we'd be in for an awfully long silence.

These stupid fucks can't look beyond gaining revenge on a rival clan for cheating their way to victory in a camel race over 300 years ago.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-22 21:50|| 2007-04-22 21:50|| Front Page Top

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