We want to turn Fallujah into a massive forced labor camp???

[Oilwellian]

Via Atrios:

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://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2004/12/we-pay-our-slave-laborers.html

[DireStrike]

1. Creating jobs, I guess.

:shrug:

I don't suppose it talks about how much they would be paid.

[Massacure]

2. So what happens when the Iraqi resistance hacks it?

[jimshoes]

3. Forget Warsaw,

We're making another Auschwitz. Arbeit Macht Frei!

[quiet.american]

4. OMG

This sounds chillingly familiar....

[alcuno]

5. They've yet to effectively implement anything in that country.

What makes anyone think they could pull this off?

[bvar22]

6. A NEW beginning for the people of Fallujah!

Freedom on the March





Liberated civilians joyously gather for their NEW jobs
while their protectors provide security!



Identity badges are to be worn at all times!





The Bush Family (BFEE) didn't just get rich doing business with the NAZIs, they stole the NAZI playbook!

[mikehiggins]

7. Why not just tattoo their id numbers on their arms?

Worked for the Nazis pretty well, especially when it came time to put together a final solution.

[Oilwellian]

8. You'd think they'd be a little more subtle

"citizen processing centers????" Oh, and buses will work great in Fallujah. Look at how safe they are in Israel. :eyes: