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Originally posted by dav555add
Have you been smoking or something????
Their whole fucking country was in ruins...
You are mistaken with Iran 
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Dave555add, please keep some of that you are smoking... seems good as hell...
IRAN ???? when the puppet dictator ( Iran Shah) placed by the US ( to get the little oil they have) had to leave, the country was one of the poorest in the region and kept in ignorance. In fact, that ignorance got transformed in the religious fanatism that rules for the last 30 years!
IRAQ was a modern country:
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Before Saddam led his people into the disastrous 1980-88 war with Iran and the 1990 invasion of Kuwait ? which led to the Gulf War ? Iraq was the envy of the Arab world.
During a 1970s oil boom, Saddam's Baath Party envisioned a country ruled by Arab Socialism. Iraq was seen as the Arabs' Germany and Saddam their Bismarck. As deputy chairman of the ruling Revolutionary Command Council, Saddam headed an economic planning council that oversaw the building of vast industrial plants, huge housing projects, eight-lane highways, bridges, airports, universities and communication infrastructure.
His name and the slogan "builder of modern Iraq" adorned streets across Iraq and jumbo projects like airports and new townships. He even ordered his name inscribed on stones in reconstructed monuments in ancient cities like Babylon, alongside those of famous kings Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar.
The building spree was paid for with earnings from the country's oil reserves, second-largest in the world after Saudi Arabia's. From 1970 to 1974, revenues from oil exports increased from $896 million to $7.6 billion.
"People overlooked their political deprivation and lack of participation, they only saw buildings sprouting here and there," Iraqi economist Ghanim Hamdoun, who researched Iraq's 1970s economic experiment, told The Associated Press from London.
http://springfield.news-leader.com/s...fm-242856.html
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PS: you are pretty active in posting today
I have to go to the post office, then going to Imax with my gf ( BTW, she is adorable and ... jewish..)
