The Arabs have a long history of entrepreneurialism. A secular Iraq that allowed this business skill to flourish would really be the proverbial nail in the coffin of the surrounding dictators.
With all respect forumers, there were three combined Bentley/Rolls Royce car dealers/showrooms in Iraq until between May 1998 and October 1998 when they were illegally forced to close by Britain and U.S.A. Although I have 1995 photographs of me standing outside the (now gone) Baghdad Bentley/Rolls Royce car dealer/showroom I do not have them at hand to post any here (but I do not tell a lie). All this shows how prosperous Iraq was. Iraq has been invaded and blighted by Britain and U.S.A. and there is a conspiratorially creepy and almost global media shroud over this reality. The Royal Kingdom of Saudi Arabia media is much different to most of the World's and has exposed these truths about the Britain and U.S.A. invasion. Britain and U.S.A. have a nerve helping a Hyundai dealer/showroom to open in Baghdad, considering how Iraq was.