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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I almost expected this to be by the Babylon Bee.
Those that trade freedom for security will have neither.
Like in Baghdad?
That’s what I was thinking.🤔
A Green Zone.
Baghdad on the Potomac.
They are really milking this for all its worth.
Everyone Loves Dear Leader!
Therefore this is nonpossible!
Long live Dear Leader!
Yes
Biden might be a little scared.... as are Pelosi and the Squat Squad
Complete with hoards of Baghdad Bobs!
Welcome to Bidenistan.
...and think we don’t know it.
Maybe one of his wife;s motorcades will show up for the coronation of the CROOK IN CHIEF!
Haha this is fantastic. And the Left’s new Fascist Regime now treats MAGA the same as ISIS. Well Fascism didn’t end so well in the 1940’s so let’s see how this 21st century version goes.
Yes. This makes me sick.
“green Zone”. As in Baghdad? As in ISIS? This will not end up well!
When you tell people in advance that you are going to steal the election and how you are going to steal the election. and then we see you steal the election, don’t be surprised when you live behind barbed wires sh*tting in your Depends every day for your whole administration.
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