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Originally Posted by El Blanco
You're mad because private companies are profiting off the hard work they are doing to rebuild a country?
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Rebuild a country? Since when was Iraq ever a country? The land which is now enclosed by present day Iraq's borders has been occupied by several empires over the past few thousand years, the most recent being the Ottoman Empire, until 1919, when the British established the borders of the country we now call Iraq as it carved up the defeated Ottoman Empire's colonial posessions. I believe it was around 1939 when some kind of monarchy was established, and in 1958, it was overthrown by a revolutionary general. In 1968, the Ba'athist military took over, and the rest is history.
So a casual glance at history doesn't show any reason for Iraq as we know it to be considered a country, but what does a casual glance at Iraq itself reveal?
The north of Iraq is populated largely by Kurds, who along with the Kurds of Turkey and a few other middle eastern nations are seeking a homeland. Kurds are not Iraqis, and do not want to be a part of any Iraqi state, be it Saddams Iraq, or a democratic US backed Iraq.
Then there are the Shiite and Sunni Muslims, with their little schism.
Well, thats 3 groups of people, all disliking eachother to different degrees, and not wanting to work together.
Bearing that in mind El Blanco, what is this country that these corporations are "working hard to rebuild?"