Posted by
Cary Wesberry on Monday, July 02, 2007 2:31:51 PM
“It is much better here. If you are not a troublemaker, no one kicks in your door in the middle of the night and throws a hood over your head,” said Hamed, 20, who was on vacation from his home in Baghdad’s Bab al-Sheikh neighborhood.
Kurds are Muslims like their Arab countrymen. But a secular political climate tolerates bars and liquor stores. Elsewhere in Iraq, merchants who sell alcohol risk death at the hands of Islamic extremists.
Women in Kurdistan are free to dress in Western clothes if they so choose, and men and women mingle freely at cafes and nightspots. Parents can take their children on outings without fear of sudden, violent death.
On a recent spring day, the road winding through the mountains near Sulaimaniyah was jammed with cars filled with families heading for picnics in the cool hills.
Along the roadside, vendors sold chocolates, potato chips and soft drinks. Shepherds tended herds of sheep and goats grazing aimlessly along the rocky slopes.
Among the crowd was Saman Othman, who parked his borrowed SUV at a quiet spot and asked his wife and children to help set up a barbecue grill.
A few yards away, a group of young men were dancing to Kurdish folk music blaring from a recorder. Other families were setting up their own small tables and chairs for a picnic lunch.
From Iraq's Inconvenient Truth.
These good people deserve to live free. In the first Gulf War we incited the Kurds to revolt against Saddam. We stabbed them in the back by not supporting them after we made our promises. Saddam murdered thousands of their people as punishment for the uprising. To say the Kurds have not done their fair share of dying is a lie. READ and COMPREHEND the above article from Iraq. Those of you who wish to retreat will be directly committing genocide. And the fact is you are worse than those who would actually do the killing because you would sit back here in comfortable America, make the decision, and then watch them die on your TV screen while having a drink and a light snack... or a heavy snack if you are a big fat Communist pig like Michael Moore or Rosie O'Donnell.
The big fat pigs in my country who sit on their couches and call for retreat while our soldiers are achieving victory and killing terrorists every day should be deported to Syria or Gaza.