We are friends with an older couple that fled Iraq. Saddam invaded their town and told them to leave or die. He took everything they had. They were upper/middle class people. They migrated here as refugees with nothing and started a business in our town. I talked with them many times when Bush was after Saddam and watched them cry while saying “God bless President Bush” so yes, a lot of them wanted us there. They despised Saddam and often claimed he was “not a real Muslim”. This couple appears to either be moderate Muslim (not radical) or Christian. They speak excellent English and she didn’t wear Muslim garb. She was always wearing jeans or Western style clothes. I never asked their religion.
I think the group that is protesting is a group that is being sponsored by Iran.
Didn’t that nice Saddam after getting our
support in his Iran-Iraq war still try to
destroy Israel and blow up the WTC?
I hate crypto-liberals here who love despots.
They were pretty quiet when the purple
lipped rateared dogeater and Mme. Bobblehead
and their EU cronies overthrew Qaddafi
after he flipped in fright post-Iraq War and turned
over his WMD
I also have a close business partner and friend from iran. His family got out when the Shah was being ousted. He ended up in Germany at age 15. After graduating from a university, he played in the European United States Football League as a linebacker. Then he built a tremendous oil trading business in Amsterdam right next to Royal Dutch Shell HQ.
Now he resides in Italy, retired and happy. He visits the US a couple times a year. He loves America. He knows the US has political problems and he knows the forces behind it.
He has shown me his family’s photo albums and newspaper scrapbooks. It shows Iran was once a rich country with a thriving middle class, better than Venezuela before Hugo Chavez.
The people and towns were not radicalized, not obsessed with Islam. They were very much into living a good life with good roads, universities, hospitals, homes very much like suburban homes in the US.
They had good farms allowing for self-sufficiency able to feed themselves. Girls walked around in short skirts without fear. Most families had at least one car.
None of the above exists now. The current regime retaliates and lies like our Pelosi-Schiff-Nadler democrats here. But the people there are waking up, the truth is getting through. They are getting armed and their organizations are getting smarter and stronger.
My friend, although secular, called me last week from Italy to wish Merry Christmas. He keeps in touch with many Iranians going back to inside Iran. He’s very optimistic, says Trump is making huge lasting differences so much so that Iranians have adopted ‘MIGA’ Make Iran Great Again. He says the current regime will be gone soon as the people there are smart and know what they’re doing..