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7: BAGHDAD / IRAQ / IRAN / SYRIA

30 October, 2007

BAGHDAD:

Modern Baghdad; situated on both sides of the Tigris, and on the eastern part of the Euphrates, was ancient Babylon; the seat of the AKKAD and UR Dynasties, and, later, the centre of the Abbasid Caliphate.

IRAQ:

Ancient Mesopotamia; the land of the Sumerians; the land of Gilgamesh; goes back to the 3^rd millennium BC and even much earlier. It was one of the earliest recorded centre or cradle of civilization; after The Akkad and Ur Dynasties, came The Babylonian Empire; 2017-1794 BC; The Assyrian Empire; 1100-612 BC, and The Neo-Babylonian Empire in the 6^th Century BC.

Iraq later came largely under Iranian influence until she was conquered and converted to Islam by the Arabs in the 7^th Century AD; The Abbasid Caliphate; 750-1258 AD.

Actually (and this is very important, though a long story; too long, in fact, to include here), much later, Iraq ceased to exist as an independent state until soon after World War I when it was established as a kingdom by Britain. Iraq became a republic in 1958.

SO! If Britain could establish Iraq as a kingdom in the 20^th century after World War I; why can't Britain and The USA, with the help of the coalition forces (and the Iraqi army and police) establish Iraq as a democracy in the 21^st century? I ASK YOU!

I know that most of you, who always ‘jump the gun,’ are asking themselves: So what has all of this got to do with……? Well; I’ll tell you. It means that Iraq was under the heels of Iran until the British liberated them soon after World War I.

It also means that IRAQ was to IRAN what LEBANON was, and still is, to SYRIA; and that SYRIA will soon be to IRAN what LEBANON was, and still is, to SYRIA!

AND! That’s not all. Later, both SYRIA and LEBANON – and several other (Arab) countries, too, to boot; if things continue as they are – will be to IRAN what IRAQ once was to IRAN!

No leader and no country – especially Lebanon and Syria – should underestimate The Persians or take them for fools!

A word to the wise is enough, and a thousand words to the obtuse ought to be enough!

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