I got an opportunity to meet two Iraqi businessmen in New Delhi... and both told me that Iraq under Saddam was more peaceful and less corrupt...
According to them they celebrated his downfall for 10+ days... One's son was killed by Saddam's regime... but to my disbelief, both of them want to rectify that and term his downfall as the downfall of Iraq...
They called current politicians, the vultures feeding on dead corpse...
So 2 Iraqi “businessmen” now represent the entire viewpoint of a country?
Ludicrous.
Also ludicrous that they expect Iraq to be a corruption free state after it was basically rebuilt less than 10 years ago.
Newsflash bro, countries aren’t haircuts. You can’t just change them overnight and expect them to look good. That takes time, decades possibly centuries.
Furthermore, the only reason Iraq was more “peaceful” was because they were ruled by a genocidal dictator who killed off any opposition.
Lastly, Wether you like it or not Sunnis caused most of the violence in post-war Iraq and still do across the Muslim world. When was the last time you heard a Kurd blowing himself up in a marketplace or a Shiite running into a mosque and blowing himself up? Terrorist attacks against civilians are trademarked by Sunnis now.
A majority of sunni’s were content on Saddam butchering Shiites. But once the majority sect became in power they cried Bloody Mary and formed Al-Queda of Iraq and ISIS. There excuse? They were “oppressed”. Yet their solution was to kill thousand of innocent civilians.
So the real story that isn’t talked about is that Sunni sect of Islam specifically Whabbai sects, but also all conservative Sunni sects promote terrorism against Shiites and minorities and are a disgrace to the word religion.
The West obviously backed the wrong horse (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, etc) in trying to control the Middle East. Because if these countries didn’t have oil or West support, all these toxic strains of extremist Islam would not have emerged.
