Imagine two Iraqi politicians taken to US to see the essential differences of US and Iraq.

They were there to witness the free and secular democracy that provided rights to all members of society. What they saw shocked them. What they saw were American politicians blocking the bid for a Chief Justice because she was an Atheist, this was while they were being told not to distuingish between Sunni or Shia in the legal system. What they saw was some bill called the Patriot Act being pushed through to deny American citizens rights and freedoms that the Americans were telling the Iraqis should enact in their own country, this was while they were being told that the purpose of the 'collatoral damage' was essentially to grant them these rights and freedoms. They saw that the legalality of gay marraiges was marked as illegal because it did not fit the description of the morality of certain religious values, this was while they were told that they should seperate their own religion from the law.

Sorry, not exactly the point of this thread, but you get the idea. I love US and the people, I'm just glad that 08 is coming soon.

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