Did You Know - It's a Barrier

President Bush has long wanted to untie the Iraqis and he might have found a way. By building a 3-mile long wall through Baghdad to searate Sunni and Shiite militias, he's now got EVERYONE against his actions. What an unltra-maroon. Click here to read the whole article...

BAGHDAD — U.S. and Iraqi military officials scrambling to deflect criticism of a wall being erected to separate a volatile Sunni Muslim neighborhood from surrounding Shiite areas insisted Monday that the structure is not a wall at all.

It's a barrier.

The distinction comes because it is a temporary structure, they said of the 14,000-pound slabs of concrete placed side by side on the edge of Sunni-dominated Adhamiya, in northeastern Baghdad. When completed, it is expected to be 3 miles long.