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Re: killing me softly....
Posted by Rashad (Guest) - Saturday, May 4 2013, 18:27:27 (UTC)
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Americans don't believe me when I tell them how life was in Iraq when I visited in 1990 and it was even better in the 60s and 70s from what people tell me about those "golden days". I didn't see any people that looked like the suffered malnutrition. One person could work and the entire family could live off that. Education was free, health care was free and everyone had access to it. My old roommate is from Basra and he tells me he comes from a poor area of the city. His mother was widow and didn't have much money, yet they owned their own house, had food and clothing. In many ways, Iraqis lived better than some Americans. I didn't see anyone who lived paycheck to paycheck like I see so many Americans do, but the problem is Americans are ignorant and don't even know that Iraq was once a prosperous nation. Things get even better in Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, etc. They not aware that the gulf Arabs wouldn't even urinate on the American who lives like a peasant.

This radical republican I work with has a grandson who is in Kuwait as a US soldier and he told his grandpa that everyone there is rich. He didn't believe him when he said it. He can't imagine such place exist and told him that Kuwait is a small nation with under two million people and is very rich and prosperous. He just couldn't believe it. I guess when you're pushing 70 and still working like a mule, it's difficult to imagine that some "towel head" over there lives better than you, especially if are ignorant like these people are. If America has left Iraq alone, it would be like Kuwait and those other countries. Same could be said about Iran under Mohammed Mossadegh. But they just couldn't stay away.

I have another old dweeb I work with who is always telling me how bad socialist countries are and then he talked about Ethiopia being dirt poor and needs food for the people. I told him that Ethiopia like the rest of Africa is rich in resources, it's the birthplace of coffee(ask starbucks where their coffee comes from) and it is a capitalist country so why is it poor? All those countries are capitalist and "free" yet the people are poor. How does Germany who has no coffee become one of the leading exporter of coffee to the world, Africa?



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