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US to divide Baghdad into 'gated communities'
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4-12-2007 7:11 AM
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kwonsu
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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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