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Re: Longrigg On Semele
Posted by Jeffrey (Guest) - Saturday, October 6 2007, 18:31:48 (CEST)
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I am often asked by my American friends, "Was Saddam Hussein cruel to the Chaldeans in Iraq?" I always answer by telling them a story:

There were 2 Chaldean churches being built in the U.S. and the community owed more than $300,000 on each. An Iraqi delegation was in town, visiting Michigan (this was in the 80's when the U.S. was allied with Iraq) and the Iraqi government met with the Chaldean church leaders and handed them a check for the remainder of the bank note. Talk about your devotion to diversity and a secular state!

I feel as though Saddam knew how important it was to have a secular state because, as we are learning here, having religious nut-jobs in power does not a successful state make. The Chaldeans had a good life in Iraq, by and large. Sure, there may have been isolated discrimination, but we experience that in the U.S. or in any country. All minorities are discriminated against sometime. I'd say Chaldeans were fine up until the Gulf war and now during Vietnam II. This war has decimated the community in Iraq, but it has decimated the entire country, so...

Bad apples ruining the whole bunch? Sure. I'm always amazed that there were people in our community who actually supported this insane war against their historic homeland. I may disagree with U.S. foreign policy, but I'll be damned if I would ever support China or any other country invading my state or country to overthrow it and cheer on the sidelines just because the superpower thinks it is a good idea. Amazing that people could be such.......... (I'm pausing because I don't want to use the word 'traitors')................ I don't know...it's amazing that our people can turn their backs on Iraq, their historic homeland, and support this insane, diabolical war. That's my two cents on the issue.



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