Thursday, June 02, 2005

Destroy the Green Zone

"On October 12, 2004, Washington Post's Peter Carlson wrote that the Green Zone "is more Midwest than Mideast." Indeed, an entire district in the center of Iraq's capital is off-limits to everyday Iraqis and is used only by American officials and contractors and Iraqi lawmakers. The American embassy, the largest on earth with reportedly two thousand officers is located there, most of Iraq's lawmakers live and work there and American contractors make their money from the safety of the heavily fortified Green Zone. The speed limit is 35 MPH and it is strictly enforced and the mobile phones have an American area code, 914 so that calls between Washington and Baghdad can be made as easily as calls are made between Washington and Arlington, Virginia."
Dear baghdad
How convenient.

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