In Sadr City's new wall, shadows of Gaza, Vietnam

[HeadNtheClouds]

just make more oil & you can do whatever you want, I don't care. I just need gas that doesn't cost $4.00 a gallon.

[Bowen11b]

BTW my company D Co. 4/64 AR (3rd Infantry Division) had more confirmed kills than any unit in Sadr City. The Iraqi Ministry of the Interior estimated my company (about 100 guys) killed 1,200-2,000 enemy insurgents in 2 months.

[Bowen11b]

I fought in Sadr City last year and was a part of the main effort in laying down the wall along RTE Gold that divides the city into two. That wall crushed a huge percentage of insurgent activity. Operation Gold Rush (the dividing wall) was a huge success. Is the wall population control? Absolutely. Is population control effective? Absolutely.

[GHOSTSHADOW1]

rype in:FOX Interviews Michael Yon On Iraq Progress

[fr44ed]

ww w.agoracosmopolitan. com/home/Frontpage/2008/03/29/­02304.html

Iraq War is a Eugenics orchestrated genocide masquerading as an anti-terrorist operation

The idea that the on-going Iraq War is substantively an anti-terrorist operation which is designed to turn Iraq into a democracy, and bring security to Americans and the world, is propaganda, along with professed statements of "success" in this region. This is the kind of mass-deception that was used while Nazi Germany rounded up Jews..

[puresrtrash]

Xenu..do some research. It doens't suprise me that a scientologist is spouting ignorance.

1.The letters were independant, ther eis no signature of authorization on them by Ron Paul

2.Oopposition to civil rights? You mean a religous ceremony of the church the government has no business in?

3.Ron doesn't tie Christianity to his policy's.

4.Give evidence of his "ties".

5.He said the war was uneeded. Slavery ended in Britain, no shots fired.

Nader is an anti-constituionalist.

[hazukisan7]

is it just me or does al sadr seem like a freedom fighter one who could unite iraq and liberate it from us occupation ...i know we shud address these people as "terrorist" but cant help the feeling his face will be stencilled on t-shirts in the future

[Xenu]

5 years ago Al-Sadr's movement coming to power would have been the worse case scenario. The situation in has become so monstrous that it may now be the best case scenario. My understanding - though I may be wrong here & you'll want to double check - is that the Sadrists in power would be economically left-wing and politically 'Islamist-democratic' (?) in that the legislature and executive would be elected with a clerical judiciary with veto power. His militia have been involved in major ...

[Xenu]

.. atrocities but Al-Sadr claims these are rogue elements and he actually has some positive ties to Sunni leaders. I don't think his view of the role of women in society is very progressive although I don't know how intolerant his movement would be of other views (big question). That said, as an American it's not my place to worry about the resistance but about US actions). He could possibly continue being a positive unifying anti-occupation leader. Here is hoping for the best.

[immanent]

If the people want "left-wing and politically 'Islamist-democratic'" then let them have it.

It is not the job of the United States to "spread democracy." It leads to unintended consequences and economic distress. War isn't cheap, but neither are social programs.

It was Woodrow Wilson who coined "making the world safe for democract" as the duty of the United States. It was the biggest fascist lie ever told in American politics. The second was the New Deal.

[lifeovdeath]

his militia are a bunch of people from saddams regime using a relgious names, they uneducated thiefs and criminals. i am shia, and il tell you the shia dont like him or his militia.

[fr44ed]

We're not as ignorant as you think we are lifeovdeath.

This is the REAL NEWS site.

People here are better informed. Take your lies to CBS or ABC or CNN or Fox, people there are misinformed and you will have better luck there.

[lifeovdeath]

actually i take my news from iraqi media.

[marknalleahmad]

hazukisan7

Hope it is just you! Not that I promote the illegal occupation, and barbaric invasion of Iraq or it's current government, but Sadr promises such oppression which would make Saddam Husein look like a humanitarian.

Your government fucked up the whole region big time. The only hope is a democratic revolution in Iran, and your government's threatening of military action against the IR of Iran, is playing well in those terrorists bloody hands.

[azsunrise7]

a few words about walls:

wall around polish ghetto of warsaw used to keep jews IN, israel wall used to keep would be murderers OUT.

shalom!

[lastnymleft]

One of the bellwether signs of the downfall of a civilization throughout the ages has been the erection of walls to separate the haves from the have-nots. Be it gated communities popping up throughout America, the gulag that is Palestine, or this new abomination in Iraq, it all points the wrong way.

Americans need to wake up and support Ron Paul - before it's too late.

[Xenu]

Ron Paul is a white supremacist so no, I don't think I'll be supporting his reaction 1920's Republican positions on anything. Nader's a much better choice. Dog turd is a better choice than Paul and his klansmen buddies.

[lastnymleft]

Idiot. You are showing your ignorance.

[Xenu]

Yes, showing your ignorance of decades of racist newsletters, vocal opposition to civil rights, labor, your ignorance of Paul's Christian fundamentalism and ties to white supremacy and his defenses of the Southern Confederacy.

[immanent]

So you're watching RealNews, a testament to the lies and propaganda that mainstream media propagates, and yet you bought the same media's coverage and treatment of Ron Paul?

Teapot, meet kettle.

[RationalLiberty]

wow you dont really know much do you?

[keptyeti]

This story exemplifies why The Real News is so important. I have seen NO reference to this wall anywhere in the mainstream "news".

[RationalLiberty]

whats also amazing is we have seen no objective coverage of al sadr either. He is ALWAYS referred to as a "Radical cleric", which I always laugh at.

[hazukisan7]

yea i know man i wish i could give some money ..i will have to wait till i finish college sooo broke...

[bijelimelek]

What a fucking discriminatory policy, but thats American way of dividing a country and spreading hatred between different groups, poor, religious, tribal and ethnic, just so USA can have a reason to stay there and extract the oil, and reason to keep the iraqi people divided so they can not create a stable state and therefore wont be a influencial power in middle east that would stand up to ISrael

[GFY1954]

...And let's not forget to thank Cheney!

[MementoExpose]

what a mess

[danoinreno]

GREAT how many more people have to DIE and HOW many more BILLIONS can we send AND FOR WHAT??

4 DOLLAR A GALLON GAS! THANKS BUSH!!

[RationalLiberty]

its like 6 dollars a litre in the U.K. or somethin ridiculous like that.  Americans need to get more efficient/smaller cars.