I hope all the Iraqi's enjoy the "freedom" Bush is giving them.

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Returning Fallujans will face clampdown
By Anne Barnard, Globe Staff | December 5, 2004

FALLUJAH, Iraq -- The US military is drawing up plans to keep insurgents from regaining control of this battle-scarred city, but returning residents may find that the measures make Fallujah look more like a police state than the democracy they have been promised.

Under the plans, troops would funnel Fallujans to so-called citizen processing centers on the outskirts of the city to compile a database of their identities through DNA testing and retina scans. Residents would receive badges displaying their home addresses that they must wear at all times. Buses would ferry them into the city, where cars, the deadliest tool of suicide bombers, would be banned.

Marine commanders working in unheated, war-damaged downtown buildings are hammering out the details of their paradoxical task: Bring back the 300,000 residents in time for January elections without letting in insurgents, even though many Fallujans were among the fighters who ruled the city until the US assault drove them out in November, and many others cooperated with fighters out of conviction or fear.

One idea that has stirred debate among Marine officers would require all men to work, for pay, in military-style battalions. Depending on their skills, they would be assigned jobs in construction, waterworks, or rubble-clearing platoons.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/12/05/returning_fallujans_will_face_clampdown/

[Journeyman]

1. Arbeit macht frei. . .

One idea that has stirred debate among Marine officers would require all men to work, for pay, in military-style battalions. Depending on their skills, they would be assigned jobs in construction, waterworks, or rubble-clearing platoons.

So to instill democracy in Iraq we must build a police state first, complete with DNA databases and retinal scans, badges that must be worn at all times, and enforced public transport. . . all to make "free and open elections" possible.

[izzie]

2. I think we have gone over the edge.

What is wrong with this country. DNA, work camps. Sounds like the Germans and the ID bans on the arm and working in the arms mills. What next?Does anyone in this gov. see what we are looking like to the world? We do have to live in this world. We can not ride around in a bubble like the people working high up in the gov in DC.