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Secret Service designates ‘Green Zone’ in nation’s capital
The Washington Post ^ | Missy Ryan

Posted on 01/15/2021 2:58:01 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

The Secret Service has designated a “Green Zone” in central Washington as part of its security efforts ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, a move that sparked comparisons to the highly fortified swath of Baghdad that came to symbolize America’s struggles in Iraq.

In a news release issued Thursday, the agency laid out road closures, public transportation disruptions and other restrictions affecting Washington, D.C., surrounding the Jan. 20 swearing-in ceremony. It identified a ‘Red Zone’ where during a six-day period only cars with special permits can enter, and a separate ‘Green Zone’ into which only permitted vehicles or residents or businesses who can verify their links to the area can pass.

Authorities are scrambling to intensify security, erecting metal and concrete barriers and deploying thousands of National Guard and other security forces, to prevent a repeat of the deadly Jan. 6 riot by a pro-Trump mob at the Capitol. But for some Washingtonians, the use of ‘Green Zone’ heightened the sense of the surreal in the elaborate fortifications and deployments descending on the heart of the nation’s capital.

By this weekend there will be more National Guard troops on duty in Washington than there are troops serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria combined. The term ‘Green Zone’ became widely known in the years following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, when American officials remained sealed behind high concrete blast walls and tightly guarded checkpoints in a central area of Baghdad while a bloody sectarian war unfolded outside.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 20000troops; bideninauguration; greenzone; ss; washdc
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To: proust

That does not exist citizen.


61 posted on 01/15/2021 3:24:12 PM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator
"Like in Baghdad?"

Something is afoot. Just yesterday, leftist talking heads began to describe Trump's movement as "Baathist," even though there is no comparison whatsoever. And I had never before heard Trump and his followers described in that way, despite all the smears leveled at them. Now, all of a sudden, they are all saying it.
62 posted on 01/15/2021 3:24:16 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Responsibility2nd

Is that “meal team six”?


63 posted on 01/15/2021 3:24:50 PM PST by Stentor
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To: Pining_4_TX

” if you need thousands of armed guards at your inauguration then you probably were not elected by the people.”

It was not the voice of the American people, it was criminal ventriloquism.


64 posted on 01/15/2021 3:25:07 PM PST by equaviator (If it seems like it's too bad to be true then maybe it isn't.)
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To: 7thson

“If the NG troops are under the command of Miller and President Trump, then why are they there? Who ordered this? Did President Trump order this? The Acting SecDef? Is this being ordered by the governors?”

That’s my point - SecDef/Trump are the only ones that could authorize it. Why on earth would they want to create these optics? It makes no sense to me unless the insurrection act theories are not as crazy as some think.


65 posted on 01/15/2021 3:26:05 PM PST by ClandestineGuy
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To: Responsibility2nd

The NG troops are there at Trump’s behest and under his command. They are there to hold a livid Trump base at bay while other faithful law enforcement makes the necessary arrests. Interesting days ahead.


66 posted on 01/15/2021 3:26:08 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (No audit. No peace.)
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To: Texas resident
20,000 Armed Troops. Think about it. There is NO FREAKING WAY this won't turn out to be a Kent State on Steroids.

And the blood will be on liberal hands.

20,000 soldiers at US Capitol. No, it isn't Civil War, but the Trump effect

67 posted on 01/15/2021 3:28:06 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Trump is a deposed Pres. in exile. America is truly a banana republic. Our govt. has been overthrown)
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To: Steve_Seattle

The coordination of language has been quite disturbing in recent times.
Baathist is an extremely odd reference, but makes sense with Green Zone.
Feels like a bad dream...


68 posted on 01/15/2021 3:28:51 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Fester Chugabrew
The general public should be kept away while the proper authorities finally deal with decades of corruption. We don’t do French Revolutions here. Law and order is what we do.

There's a childish part of me that's ready for the Second Republic.

69 posted on 01/15/2021 3:28:55 PM PST by Stentor
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To: MinorityRepublican

Green Zone?

More like Satan’s Playground.

Have fun kneeling to your Satanic overlords, National Guard.

With years of experience, perhaps the creeps at the FBI can show you how it’s done.


70 posted on 01/15/2021 3:30:19 PM PST by Prole
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To: Fester Chugabrew

I don’t think so. Mayor BowWow was the first to call for the NG. Other liberals followed suit.

Trump, seeing his enemies making a YUGE MISTAKE, agreed to this plan.

“Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.

~Napolean


71 posted on 01/15/2021 3:31:24 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Trump is a deposed Pres. in exile. America is truly a banana republic. Our govt. has been overthrown)
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To: Pining_4_TX

“...Somebody said if you need thousands of armed guards at your inauguration then you probably were not elected by the people....”

Yep. I saw that post somewhere earlier today as well.
Apparently, he didn’t win shite.....


72 posted on 01/15/2021 3:31:28 PM PST by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Thought this was the Babylon Bee - but then I realized it was a less credible "news" source...



73 posted on 01/15/2021 3:31:41 PM PST by kiryandil (New Movie: The Assassination Of Ashli Babbitt By The Anonymous Coward)
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To: Prole

I guarantee that the vast majority of the troops do not want to be there.
They wanted training and more importantly the GI Bill.


74 posted on 01/15/2021 3:33:47 PM PST by EEGator
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To: MinorityRepublican

Would you be surprised if John Roberts were incarcerated within a week? Zuckerberg? Word is out that 193,000 arrests at high levels are about to take place. No wonder they they wanted Trump out yesterday.

Now, I could be wrong, but I sure do not count NBC as a reliable source. I don’t mind being wrong or ridiculed, but I am not so obtuse as to deny the existence of blackmail and treason at the highest levels of government. Those things are not dealt with by an unelected mob, but through proper, god-fearing authority of the type and size we are witnessing this very moment in DC.


75 posted on 01/15/2021 3:35:02 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (No audit. No peace.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
A Green Zone. Baghdad on the Potomac.

Great Phrase.

That has officially been stolen and will be used for the duration of this Second Kenyanisan Occupation.

76 posted on 01/15/2021 3:35:59 PM PST by KC_Lion
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To: Lod881019

Exactly!!


77 posted on 01/15/2021 3:36:54 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from I whom ALL blessings flow,)
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To: Responsibility2nd

My sense is that there is more NG presence than Bow-Wow was expecting, and that she did not have such authority in the first place.


78 posted on 01/15/2021 3:37:47 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (No audit. No peace.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

A Hellfire into a wedding in Georgetown is next


79 posted on 01/15/2021 3:38:28 PM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: MinorityRepublican

What a bunch of weenies. The deep state failed in both security and intelligence, right in the deep state’s front yard.

America’s enemies took note, and the traitors in Congress are crapping in their diapers.


80 posted on 01/15/2021 3:40:12 PM PST by sergeantdave (Federal courts no longer have any standing in America. )
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