“I am a Berliner”, John F. Kennedy said. “Tear down that wall,” Ronald Reagan admonished the Soviet leaders. And indeed, in 1990, the Berlin Wall disappeared. Now guess what? The Americans are BUILDING a wall, not in Berlin, but in Baghdad, around the Sunni enclave of Adhamiya. The sectarian violence between Shia and Sunni, promoted, abetted and stoked by the American occupation is so devastating, the U.S. sees no other way but to build a wall, a wall of infamy. (The Guardian: Latest US solution to Iraq's civil war: a three-mile wall) (The New York Times: U.S. Erects Baghdad Wall to Keep Sects Apart)
Everybody, except Bush, Cheney and Blair, now agrees that the Iraq war is 'lost'. Mike Davis writes in The Guardian: “Senate majority leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, paid a visit to the lunatic asylum known as the White House to inform its chief inmate that “the war is lost” [...] that US military strategy was now bankrupt.” Davis continues: “... car bombs ... destroyed any idea that Gen Petraus's brigades can secure Baghdad”. (The Guardian: Sinister symmetry) Four years after Bush fantasized he had “accomplished” his mission, the U.S. is thoroughly defeated in Iraq, reduced to a bunch of Wall Builders.
The U.S. military started building the 5 km wall on April 10, of course without asking the locals what they thought about it. Adnan al-Dulaimi, who heads the biggest Sunni bloc in parliament, said it will only breed more strife. Inhabitants of Adhamiya will only be able to return home through checkpoint where they will have to cue, forming an ideal target for car bombers. They don't want to be locked up in open air prisons like the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
Meanwhile in Vermont...
The Senate of the State of Vermont has voted 16 to 9 to call on Congress in Washington to impeachm Bush and Cheney, the friendly local newspaper The Vermont Guardian reports. (The Vermont Guardian: Vermont Senate calls for impeachment of Bush, Cheney) It is the first state legislature to do so, others will no doubt follow. Not that it will matter much. The measure is called “non-binding, mostly symbolic”. The Democrats are too lame to impeach the war criminals.
Was it really Cho who made the world weep? (CNN: Cho's family 'so very sorry' for Tech tragedy)
No, not madman Cho, but madman Bush.
Oh, and George, listen to Uncle Reagan: tear down that wall!
2 comments:
I like your site. I just may have to bookmark. I've been so sicked by the way things are in the news and the way I just kind of tired of keeping up to date. Your blog might help me. I heard about the wall I think on Bill Maher the other night. Thats ridiculous
In my original post, I mixed up Virginia and Vermont. Sorry about that. I introduced the appropriate corrections.
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