Bush is so desperate to keep out the insurgents that he is building walls around Bagdad. 'Mr. Bush, tear down those Baghdad walls!'

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Fri Apr 27, 6:44 AM ET


Nearly 20 years ago, on June 12, 1987, President Reagan stood before
the Berlin Wall and spoke these words heard around the world: "Mr.
Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

Mikhail Gorbachev was the dictator of the Soviet Union. But he
ultimately got it. Two and a half years after Reagan's remarks, on
Nov. 9, 1989, Gorbachev opened the Berlin Wall and Germany became a
united democracy.


Reagan, one of our best Republican presidents in modern history, died
June 5, 2004. If he could rise from his grave, he no doubt would issue
these equally wise words now:


"Mr. Bush, tear down those Baghdad walls!"


President Bush, Vice President Cheney and their cohorts are
writing another sad chapter of the Iraq tragedy. They started
construction last week of a 12-foot-high concrete wall surrounding a
Baghdad suburb to try to control the civil war between Sunnis and
Shiites.


Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Sunday that construction of
the wall must stop. Baghdad residents, both Sunni and Shiite, took to
the streets to peacefully protest the wall.


Bush has been silent on the subject. The Pentagon issued
ambiguous statements.


The controversial wall is the latest example of barriers being erected
to keep Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds from forming a united Iraq. These
historical facts show that's a mistake:


·Walls divide people; they don't unite them. À la Berlin and Belfast,
Northern Ireland, before Baghdad.


·Only a free flow of people, information and resources can ultimately
bring about a united democracy.


Bush made a tragic mistake in invading Iraq. His current military
"surge" to help build barriers of segregation and then stay around to
patrol them compounds that error.


Another reason why we should bring our troops home, sooner rather than
later.

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