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What lemmy thinks of Iraq? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 month ago by lay@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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As an Iraqi, I do ask this question to myself a lot, what the world opinion on modern Iraq. It changed a lot especially after ISIS war, but people here generally don't value the change that much due to high unemployment rates, drought, and bossy militias.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 43 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

2million people were victims of american murderers. The americans like to forget that their foreign policy and behaviour of their military is basically identical to the IDF.

[–] lay@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's really funny if you think about it, what America identified as terrorists and imprisoned at Abu Ghraib prison are now politics controlling Iraq's economy each one with his own militia to protect him from the law. We now only looking for the future with people tending to forget what happened 20 years ago in the hope that things get better.

[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The anti war movement against the illegal war on Iraq was the biggest mobilization in history. Millions of people all over the world tried to stop the war but we're ultimately unsuccessful. Which brings us to a bigger question, why don't we the people have political power. I believe it comes down to greed, and capitalism. How can we stop these wars? The genocide on Palestine? The only weapon we have is to withhold our labour. Organize, unionize and strike.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

It's your last line. We have to find a way to take the world back from billionaires, by force if necessary. It's unreal that a small handful of assholes have the power over the billions of us that they do.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

First Past The Post voting artificially limiting our options in the voting booth.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There were plenty of us that saw right through the bullshit even before the war started but unfortunately because the SCOTUS decided the election for us we were stuck with a gang of money hungry pieces of shit... I mean we still are, but we were then too...

I was young and naive so I wanted to join the military in hopes of getting some technical skills, but even as a 17 year old idiot I saw right through bushs bullshit and said fuuuuccckkkkk that. Now I work in a factory... Fuck Bush, fuck Cheney, fuck Rumsfield... War criminals the lot of them.

To get to OPs question, in America I think we have a collective shame about it so it's pretty much never spoken about at all. The state of Iraq is only ever mentioned within the context of ISIS :(