"Baghdad a city divided, with walls at every turn" by Anthony Shadid, Washington Post | January 4, 2009
BAGHDAD - Sadiya Street stretches a few feet beyond the neighborhood that bears its name. That is, on a map. But the geography of Baghdad is determined by masonry, a maze of towering concrete barriers that isolate, segregate, and demarcate.
You know, Bush's liberation!
In Sadiya, once one of Baghdad's roughest locales, the walls also enclose, like a prison, and at 2:30 p.m., Ali Abdullah parked his bedraggled brown taxi at the end of the line of vehicles that stretches a mile from the sole entrance to the neighborhood on his way home....
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Almost every Arab capital seems to have its own notion of geography.
As if this is somehow normal for Arabs! Good Lord, how much Zionist trash and racist rubbish must we put up with here in AmeriKa?
The geography of Baghdad is walls, built one barrier at a time, along streets and around neighborhoods, through intersections and over bridges.
Yeah, and WHO BUILT THOSE WALLS, 'eh? And why didn't Saddam need to do that?
For some, the gray of freshly poured concrete long ago gave way to the city's more dominant ochers. Many are painted. Others are decorated with plastic flowers, gathering dust.
A few bear murals.Is it just me, or is the shit jewsmedia trying to make it sound like the walls are GOOD!? I guess they would feel that way, what with Israel's Apartheid wall.
But they remain walls, dividing a city from itself, in an attempt to stanch violence.
"Welcome to the city of Sadiya," the wall here reads, with no sense of irony.
"The walls are the most hated thing. I swear to God, they're despised," said Hussein Abbas Hassan, plastering posters for a candidate with his two sons. "I wish God would descend from heaven and tear them down."
But, but, but.... that's Bush's freedom!
Until he does, though, they serve a purpose.... In comparison to the recent past, Baghdad is witnessing a welcome respite....
Well, according to the lying, obfuscating, war-promoting, agenda-pushing Zionist MSM anyway!
"It's tough on us. Sometimes you feel like you're suffocating," Abdullah said, tapping his prosthetic leg. "But if it's the cost of security, what can we do."
Abdullah finally arrived at the checkpoint in his taxi. The wait can take an hour, sometimes less, sometimes more. On this day, he caught a break. He was home before 3:30 p.m.
Yup, the Iraqi taxi driver caught a break today: he was home early. Thank God he made it home at all. I'm so tired of this garbage "journalism," folks!
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Oh, and if you thought Obama was getting us out, guess again, 'murkn!
"US officials have said combat troops may be reassigned to support and advise Iraqi soldiers at joint urban bases."
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