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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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1 posted on 01/15/2021 2:58:01 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

I almost expected this to be by the Babylon Bee.


2 posted on 01/15/2021 2:58:58 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from I whom ALL blessings flow,)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Those that trade freedom for security will have neither.


3 posted on 01/15/2021 2:59:54 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (See Profile: I'm giving up.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Like in Baghdad?


4 posted on 01/15/2021 3:00:01 PM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

That’s what I was thinking.🤔


5 posted on 01/15/2021 3:00:50 PM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

A Green Zone.

Baghdad on the Potomac.


6 posted on 01/15/2021 3:00:58 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: MinorityRepublican

They are really milking this for all its worth.


7 posted on 01/15/2021 3:01:36 PM PST by Husker24
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To: MinorityRepublican

Everyone Loves Dear Leader!

Therefore this is nonpossible!

Long live Dear Leader!


8 posted on 01/15/2021 3:01:43 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition!)
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To: EEGator

Yes


9 posted on 01/15/2021 3:02:05 PM PST by DownInFlames (Ga)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Biden might be a little scared.... as are Pelosi and the Squat Squad


10 posted on 01/15/2021 3:02:48 PM PST by DOC44
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To: Responsibility2nd
-- Baghdad on the Potomac. --

Complete with hoards of Baghdad Bobs!

11 posted on 01/15/2021 3:03:05 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: MinorityRepublican

Welcome to Bidenistan.


12 posted on 01/15/2021 3:03:23 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Husker24

...and think we don’t know it.


13 posted on 01/15/2021 3:03:24 PM PST by Fishtalk (@patfish1 is my Parler user name)
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To: MinorityRepublican
politics troops lincoln memorial washington dc usa Memes & GIFs - Imgflip
14 posted on 01/15/2021 3:03:40 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: MinorityRepublican

Maybe one of his wife;s motorcades will show up for the coronation of the CROOK IN CHIEF!


16 posted on 01/15/2021 3:04:04 PM PST by Herakles (Diversity is applied Marxism!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

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.


17 posted on 01/15/2021 3:04:33 PM PST by No_Mas_Obama
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To: EEGator

Yes. This makes me sick.


18 posted on 01/15/2021 3:05:05 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: MinorityRepublican

“green Zone”. As in Baghdad? As in ISIS? This will not end up well!


19 posted on 01/15/2021 3:05:45 PM PST by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: MinorityRepublican

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.


20 posted on 01/15/2021 3:05:49 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition!)
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