Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down That Wall

U.S. forces supervise wall construction at Sadr City.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

How's That Wall Coming Along?

A senior U-S commander has been wounded by small arms fire while inspecting a security wall being built around a Sunni enclave in Baghdad.

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Much of the construction is being done at night by troops wearing night-vision goggles. But the officer was wounded while conducting a daytime survey.

  KRISTV

Not so good, then.

It's so bad in Baghdad that they have to build at night wearing night-vision goggles.

And things aren't going so well elsewhere in Iraq either.

A 17-year-old girl has been stoned to death in Iraq because she loved a teenage boy of the wrong religion.

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Reports from Iraq said a local security force witnessed the incident, but did nothing to try to stop it. Now her boyfriend is in hiding in fear for his life.

  Raw Story article

Much better off now that Saddam is gone. Much better.

Today in Iraq

In another attack on a top city official on Saturday, a roadside bomb killed the mayor of Musayyib, about 40 miles south of Baghdad, and one of his bodyguards, police said.

Separately, one American soldier was killed and two were wounded by a roadside bomb southwest of Baghdad, the military said. A separate roadside bombing, in Diwaniyah about 80 miles south of the capital, killed a Polish soldier late Friday.

  Yahoo article

Well, at least one place we bombed to dust in order to drive out the "insurgents" has been gotten under control - Falluja.

The chairman of Fallujah's city council, an outspoken critic of al-Qaida who took the job in the former Sunni insurgent stronghold after his three predecessors were assassinated, was killed in a drive-by shooting on Saturday, police said.

And, about that wall....

"A few days ago, we met with the U.S. army unit in charge of Azamiyah and it asked us, as a local council, to sign a document to build a wall to reduce killing and attacks against Iraqi and U.S. forces," said Dawood al-Azami, the acting head of the Azamiyah council.

"I told the soldiers that I would not sign it unless I could talk to residents first. We told residents at Friday prayers, but our local council hasn't signed onto the project yet, and construction is already under way."

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.