Anti-War Leaders Fear US Fast Food Threat to Iraq

CNS News ^ | April 11, 2003 | Marc Morano

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Many Iraqi citizens have taken to the streets in recent days to celebrate their freedom from dictator Saddam Hussein. But that joy could turn to sorrow, anti-war protesters warn, when the Iraqis begin to see their country adopt western cultural values.

Stephanie Schaudel, co-coordinator for Voices in the Wilderness, an anti-war group in Chicago, said the "richness of culture" in Iraq is going to be subjected to Americanization by U.S. corporations during the post-war rebuilding of the war-torn nation. The result, she indicated, would be difficult for Iraqis to swallow.

"Some people would think that seeing a KFC (formerly Kentucky Fried Chicken) on a street corner is a sign of progress, I certainly don't," Schaudel said.

Schaudel sees the destruction from the war as the greatest threat to the Iraqi people, but believes their suffering will continue as America's cultural influence increases.

"You can just look at what those kinds of businesses have done to the diet and health of many Americans to think that it might not be the number one thing we should be exporting," she explained.

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According to the America-hating Left, we have nothing worthwhile to offer, and the Iraqis are too stupid to make choices.

I've got one comment for the Left and their dire predictions about the war and Iraq:

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[Sam Cree]

Idiots, of course the Left hopes that somehow Iraq can remain an enemy.

Cool picture.

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Thanks on the pic :)

[Joe 6-pack]

[RightWhale]

"You can just look at what those kinds of businesses have done to the diet and health of many Americans

Yeah, everybody's bigger and healthier than ever, living longer, too.

[JZoback]

Some people would think that seeing a KFC (formerly Kentucky Fried Chicken) on a street corner is a sign of progress, I certainly don't," Schaudel said.

Only a chicken would say that!!!

[barbarianbabs]

They should eat saranwrap and her boy bobbin.

[dighton]

"I'm not making this up, you know."

[Sam Cree]

Schaudel thinks a government soup kitchen on every corner would be a sign of progress.

[Freedom2specul8]

My gosh, they just have to find SOMETHING to gripe about don't they!

[remitrom]

Yes, let us force a choice of foods upon the poor schmucks. Life in the west is just so damn hard isn't it. May all such pussy journalist face starvation for a month before writing....

[barbarianbabs]

HEY! I own Pepsi stock!

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ROFL!

[Skibane]

Well, it was bound to happen – After being proven wrong (and largely irrelevant) in their opposition to liberating Iraq, anti-war groups like this are being forced to reinvent themselves as self-appointed spokesmen for the newly-oppressed Iraqi citizen-victims™.

[TomB]

Stephanie Schaudel, co-coordinator for Voices in the Wilderness, an anti-war group in Chicago, said the "richness of culture" in Iraq is going to be subjected to Americanization by U.S. corporations during the post-war rebuilding of the war-torn nation. The result, she indicated, would be difficult for Iraqis to swallow.

Yep. No more raping daughters in front of their fathers. No more electrocuting men to get them to confess to crimes they didn't do. No more imprisoning 5 year olds. No more feeding political foes feet-first into plastic shredders. No more cutting out the tongues of dissidents.

Whatever will they do?

[ambrose]

yes, now the Iraqi people will face the horrors of having some choices on where to eat.

[Spruce]

[Ronin]

Oh the horror!!!

I can see it now! Soon the poor Iraqis are going to be longing for the carefree days of midnight arrests, secret-police torture, executions, rape and all the other innocent fun-filled festivities of Saddam's Baáth fairyland.

Pity they are going to lose all that and be forced to face all the nasty choices westerners must suffer with. You know... whether to vote in an election or take a trip to the park. Whether to eat at home or go to a restaurant.

How dare we impose our values on their innocent, childlike innocence.

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Considering the (up until now at least) lifespan in Iraq is something around 50 years, they need all the help they can get.