So as it turns out...Christians were... 'Safer Under Saddam'!!!

[leftchick]

another major fuck up by the idiot head** that will never be seen in the US State Run Media Machine...

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12042166%5E2703,00.html

Christians 'safer under Saddam'
Nicolas Rothwell, Middle East correspondent
January 25, 2005

CHURCHES firebombed, bishops kidnapped, new threats delivered daily – it's no wonder many in Iraq's Christian community are feeling nervous as this Sunday's election draws near.

~snip~

Christians suffered no special persecutions under Saddam Hussein – perhaps because his long-serving foreign minister Tariq Aziz, himself a Chaldean Christian, was able to protect their interests.

But in the months since the US-led occupation, and the toppling of the old Ba'ath party regime in April 2003, circumstances have changed.

Last July, three Christian churches in Baghdad were attacked, and the threat of violence by militants against Christian targets has remained constant since.

[Wilms]

1. Was there doubt?

Women were, too.

But US bombing had been a problem since 1991.

[FlemingsGhost]

2. Bush probably thinks he's doing them a favor ...

The Rapture is coming, after all.

And we all know "First come. First served." is Jesus's end-times policy.

[illflem]

3. CNN did report this

along with deterioration on womens rights in Iraq since junior's war.

[LynnTheDem]

4. And women are no better and in many cases WORSE off in Afghanistan now

bush is (pardon my French) a fuck-up.

bush has been a fuck-up his entire life.

He fucked up his businesses into bankruptcy; he fucked up his cushy TANG service; he fucked up (and by his own words) the first 40-some years of his life being a useless drunk and druggie; he fucked up trying to bury forever his DUIs and his AWOL.

He fucked up on August 6, 2003, and he fucked up on September 11, 2003.

He fucked up Afghanistan and Iraq.

He continues to fuck up Afghanistan and Iraq.

He fucked up medicare, NCLB, and is trying to fuck up social security.

He's fucked up and destroyed the greatest military the world has ever known.

In short, bush is a fuck-up. He WILL fuck up anything and everything he ever touches.

[izzie]

5. But now they can claim to be picked on.

This they do all the time. We will need to go in to save them now.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. Your thread will probably be copied

onto some freeptard's page, where he'll take it out of context and then "explain" how everyone is so much better than under Saddam, who gassed his own people(conveniently forgetting that we gave him the gas). At least that's what happened to the last bit I wrote on Iraqis being better off under Saddam. Google your user name sometime-it can reveal how far your comments go!

[leftchick]

7. I have googled and I don't care...

they are freeptards after all. They think the truth will kill them.

:)

[Charlie Brown]

8. It was WorldNetDaily, National Review, and WSJ that first printed

the stories of the Assyrian Christians being targeted and driven out of the country. Damn liberal media!

[leftchick]

9. Dominican Sisters Flee Mosul to Syria and Jordan!

Date: 2005-01-24
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=65263


MOSUL, Iraq, JAN. 24, 2005 (Zenit.org).- The Dominican Sisters of Charity of the Presentation have left Mosul, Iraq, and have relocated to Syria and Jordan.

In a statement reported by Vidimus Dominum, the women religious explained that "in order to save their own lives they had to leave everything behind." Their convent is located in between the U.S. Army base and various anti-U.S. communities.

Last week, Syrian Catholic Archbishop Basil Georges Casmoussa was briefly held by kidnappers in Mosul.

The Dominican congregation has seven communities in Iraq, with 40 sisters who work in education, in health care at St. Raphael's Hospital in Baghdad, and in a rehabilitation center for young people.

[AlCzervik]

10. By this time next year Bushco will have created a

Islamic state full of "Folks" that hate us. How ironic.

[Minstrel Boy]

11. Iraqi Jews were safer, too

Sept 30, 2003:

Iraqi Jews plan to leave for Israel
Synagogue's 24 members feel insecure, see no future in Baghdad

"We were afraid after the war. We had no weapons, no way to defend ourselves," Levy said. "Some people here hate us. They don't want to deal with us. We have no security anywhere."

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/special/iraq/2129995