The Great three mile wall

[Caesar]

"BAGHDAD - U.S. soldiers are building a three-mile wall to protect a Sunni Arab enclave surrounded by Shiite neighborhoods in a Baghdad area “trapped in a spiral of sectarian violence and retaliation,” the military said.

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 provide the only means to enter it, the military said.

“Shiites are coming in and hitting Sunnis, and Sunnis are retaliating across the street,” said Capt. Scott McLearn, of the U.S. 407th Brigade Support Battalion, which began the project April 10 and is working “almost nightly until the wall is complete,” the statement said."

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Could this slow down the sectarian violence and death squads?

[Erikl]

Oh no! Apartheid! crime against humanity! where is that Hague Court when we need it???

[Caesar]

Yeah...really

[ships-cat]

Errr... I think we tried this in Belfast. It worked for a while....

Meow Purr.

[BrucePrime]

Errr... I think we tried this in Belfast. It worked for a while....

Meow Purr.

Apparently, there have been smaller walls built like this in Baghdad, to some success.

[louie]

They tried that in Germany and Ireland and now Iraq........ &&&&¤%¤&?=&&%E# sake

[Unlimited]

maybe they should put a wall around the whole country...

[EmpressStarXVII]

I saw on the news yesterday of 3,000 Iraqi protesters who fear that the violence will only escalate. When has a wall ever worked?

[Thanato]

They tried that in Germany

But didn't one side ahve mines, anti-tank ditches, pill-boxes, machine gun nests, watch towers, and armed patrols?

~Thanato

[chemical-licker]

a problem get be solved so lets build a wall, pathetic

[Ashigaru]

When has a wall ever worked?

Depends on what you mean by worked. If by worked you mean kept people from moving between areas then the one in Germany worked pretty well.

[Purplos]

I just heard on the news that the Iraqi govt. wants the wall taken down immediately.

[Ashigaru]

The Iraqi government has done anything to make us even consider listening to what they want.

[Mekorig]

This is just a short therm solution, not a long term one.

[ROGER]

A wall would slow down our troups and screw up President Bushes "SURGE" statagy!

If thats what you call it?

[ships-cat]

Apparently, there have been smaller walls built like this in Baghdad, to some success.

AHA - I think BrucePrime is onto something here...

The solutions are LOTS and LOTS and LOTS of VERY small (but VERY tall) CIRCULAR walls, each built around every individual insurgent.

Ooooh - they could leave an eye-level slot in them, paint them red, and use them as letterboxes

(Britain has cylindrical red letterboxes on public streets)

EEEK.... is that how WE got OUR letterboxes ? <peers inside slot... "hellooooo... anyone in there ? " >

Meow Purr.

[recon_soldier]

The original plans for Iraq was to split the country into 3 sections - I believe it was the Israeli plan if i remember correctly.

[BrucePrime]

The original plans for Iraq was to split the country into 3 sections - I believe it was the Israeli plan if i remember correctly.

Iraq was originally formed from three vilayets of the Ottomon Empire.

[Bob26003]

Imperialism gone Awry..........

[StalingradK]

Yeah... I was wondering why people go against the idea of having Iraq split into three countries went that region was like that in the first place? Once the OE was set up, the British came in and divided the country up, giivng modern day Iraq to a King not even from that area as a tribute. Man I think we can truely trace the present Middle Eastern conflicts to what the Britsh government did after WW1. The more recent conflicts at least.

[Bob26003]

AHA - I think BrucePrime is onto something here...

The solutions are LOTS and LOTS and LOTS of VERY small (but VERY tall) CIRCULAR walls, each built around every individual insurgent.

Ooooh - they could leave an eye-level slot in them, paint them red, and use them as letterboxes

(Britain has cylindrical red letterboxes on public streets)

EEEK.... is that how WE got OUR letterboxes ? <peers inside slot... "hellooooo... anyone in there ? " >

Meow Purr.

ROFLMFAO

[BrucePrime]

Yeah... I was wondering why people go against the idea of having Iraq split into three countries went that region was like that in the first place? Once the OE was set up, the British came in and divided the country up, giivng modern day Iraq to a King not even from that area as a tribute. Man I think we can truely trace the present Middle Eastern conflicts to what the Britsh government did after WW1. The more recent conflicts at least.

They were never three countries; they were three vilayets (provinces) of the Ottomon Empire, roughly.

Trying to split the country into three nations just presents more problems. First, the Kurd north and Shia central region would be landlocked. Second, the Shia central region would be sandwiched between Sunni regions (The Kurds are traditionally Sunni), which they would not want; third, the production of oil requires the cooperation of all three regions. Fourth, the Turks do not want an independent Kurdistan, nor do Iran or Syria; an independent Kurdistan could result in a genocidal war.

[Unlimited]

the way the US government is arming everyone from the army,police,militias,death squads..etc.etc...they are setting this up to a bloodbath that lasts forever....In a sane world they would have banned gunpowder products in Iraq 4 years ago...not arm everyone to the hilt...build a wall they will just blow it up..