So things where wonderful under Hussein?? Never mind the mass graves,the mass killings and the money he gave to the terrorist... Things where wonderful...
Why, oh why, did we take all this bliss and joy away from the Iraqis?? What good has it done??
Nasty old American soldiers! Bad President Bush!! BAD!!
(Are these guys on the same side, or what? LOL!)
Things were not wonderful under Saddam. They aren't wonderful now, either. But back then, they were stable. Now they are not. Before, you were less likely to be blown up on the street.
The Christians in Iraq were not forced to flee the country under Saddam, but our invasion has removed any protection they had from the mad mus, and they are now forced to leave their homeland. Any thoughts on this?
Iraqi Christians flee to Syria because of pressure from Muslim extremists
Aug 03 (2004)
SALIM ABRAHAM
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - In small but steady numbers, Iraqi Christians are moving to Syria to escape the threats and violence of Islamic extremists, say Iraqi Christian exiles.
"The religious and ethnic pressure on us is tremendous," said Shamasha Muayad Shamoun Georges, 45, a deacon of the Chaldean Solaqa Church in Baghdad, who fled to Syria two weeks ago with his wife and five children.
Georges said the pressure comes from "Muslim extremists," not from the interim Iraqi government, which has a Christian as minister of immigration and refugees.
During Sunday evening mass, suspected Islamic militants set off a series of explosions at five churches in Baghdad and the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, killing at least seven people and wounding dozens. It was the first major assault on Iraq's Christian minority since the Iraqi war began last year...
Priest Sends SOS for Christians in Iraq; Faithful Flee, Churches Close in Baghdad
October-26-2006
www.zenit.org
KOENIGSTEIN, Germany -- The recent escalation of violence in Baghdad has become too much for Christians caught in the crossfire, an Iraqi priest told the charity Aid to the Church in Need.
Father Bashar Warda told the aid organization that the conflict between the various warring factions has forced the faithful left in Al Dora -- Baghdad's district known as the "Vatican of Iraq" -- to leave.
"Nearly 700 Christian families living there have been forced to leave toward North Iraq, Syria and Jordan," he said.
"Up to a dozen centers of Catholic life and worship, including the only theological university, Babel College, and at least five churches have been closed in Al Dora," added the priest...