Sunday, December 18, 2011

America's record in Iraq

""We thought the Americans would bring us a better life, but they brought us nothing but suffering," she says, biting off the words.

The Americans allowed terrorists to pour into Iraq, she says. They propped up a corrupt and incompetent government. They insulted ordinary Iraqis and sometimes killed civilians without being held accountable.

"We greeted them with flowers, and now they laugh at us," she says. "They throw candy at our children, then laugh at them when they fight over it.""