Sunnis and Shiites Uniting and Angered Over "Baghdad Wall"

The wall Bush tried to build (under the media radar) in Baghdad,is having a back-fire effect. The wall angered and seems to be unitingthe Shiites and the Sunnis.

BAGHDAD: The unexpected outcry over the proposal to build a wall around aSunni Arab neighborhood has revealed the depths of Iraqis' frustration with thepetty humiliations brought on by the new security plan that is intended toprotect them.

American officials, and some of their Iraqi counterparts, were clearly takenaback by the ferocity of the opposition to the wall; on Monday, the UnitedStates showed signs of backing away from the plan. The strong reactionunderscores the sense of powerlessness Iraqis feel in the face of the U.S.military, whose presence is all the more pervasive as an increasing number oftroops move onto the city's streets.

Who in their right mindwould think a wall would be a good idea? The Americans can't decide whether afence along the Mexican border is a good idea, and that's where people arecoming in illegally. So Bush decides to build a wall in the capital of country wherethe citizens aren't too crazy about us being there in the first place? Backin April2004, the Iraqi people wanted us gone.

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[granny]

When you think about Bush (and it seems we must) and walls, it all seems so entirely predictable & in keeping with the general mentality ... building walls.

And besides, they have to keep the revenue flowing into the Carpet Baggers' coffers. They're all going to move to Dubai on that money in a year or so...

And to warm up to this subject, isn't it ironic that we can't even build a good wall these days. Check out Hadrian, and Antonine, and the Great Wall of China. Now THERE'S a wall! I don't suppose that clot - our great decider - has even considered (heard of?) the historic details: that it took legions (literally) of soldiers, permanently occupying those fortifications, to have the desired effect. And in the end : It didn't work! Right?!

Check out Isreal. They've been working on that "just wall the other guys out" (or in)thing for decades. Now there's a success story worth emulating, eh?!

[George]

This reminds me so much of dropping a giant ice cube in the ocean every year to combat global warming, like the cartoon from Inconvenient Truth.