US to divide Baghdad into 'gated communities'

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	US to divide Baghdad into 'gated communities'

kwonsu

4-12-2007 7:11 AM

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kwonsu says:

Weren't we over there to give them freedom?

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4-12-2007 7:12 AM

kwonsu

"The system has been used - and has spectacularly failed - in the past"

It sounds like Bush, doesn't it?

4-12-2007 7:21 AM

MemoryFull

Like Clinton was any better....

4-12-2007 7:24 AM

egoldstein

How nice...kind of like Florida

I'm pretty sure my grandparents were all excited to retire to a "gated community" down there.

4-14-2007 5:52 PM

michellezm

I so pity the Iraqi women and children. Powerless and trapped, they are in hell!

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