can someone please tell me some interesting facts about iraq and some general information on the country?

Question

not about the war

Answer 1

I know that in Middle eastern countries like Iraq, exposing the bottom of your shoe to someone when you are sitting down is the equivalent of sticking up your middle finger at them.
They feel it is an insult if they can see the bottom of your shoe because it means you are saying they are beneath you.
That is why when saddam hussiens statue came down people took thier shoes off and hit the statue with the bottome of their shoes. It represents that Hussein is beneath thier foot and defeated and being insulted.

Answer 2

Iraq is not a real country. It was invented by the British near the end of British colonialism, by arbitrarily drawing lines on a map. The French got the area of Syria, and the British got the area to the east because they still had some wild idea of cobbling together a string of countries that would give them a clear shot all the way to India. They drew these lines with a big thick marker, without any regard to what was actually there, and this is why there is such a problem there today.

For similar reasons Yugoslavia fell apart, as did the Soviet Union. You cannot make an area a country just by drawing lines on a map if you have no knowledge of what is actually on the ground.

This is also why the US concept of democracy for Iraq must ultimately fail: the idiots in the State Department have no clue about the people of culture of the region, and after all these car bombs, they still don't get it.

Answer 3

Speaker Pelosi Lied? Page A-18 Everything from serious (Chrysler closing dealerships, Afghan airstrikes) to silly (ranting advertisements, frozen pot pies) beat Nancy Pelosi's press conference on her knowledge of waterboarding to the front page. The top of the front page of Friday’s Washington Post was all about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s press conference in which she accused the CIA of deliberately misleading her in 2002 about waterboarding. There were two stories up top and a box promising two more stories inside. So what about the New York Times? There was no Pelosi story anywhere on Page One, just a plug to a story inside – on page A-18. Here’s what went on the front page instead: Chrysler telling dealers to close, Mexican immigration plummeting, Afghans fault U.S. for airstrikes, the end of a pension case at the Carlyle Group, an advertising story headlined "Does Ranting Sell? Worth a Try," and the light story of the day: "For Frozen Entrees, ‘Heat and Eat’ Isn’t Enough." Inside, Carl Hulse’s report was headlined "Pelosi Says She Knew of Waterboarding by Early 2003." The story itself featured Pelosi’s Republican critics and tried to square Pelosi’s new claims with her public actions: In her roles as both Democratic leader after 2004 and then speaker after Democrats won control of the House in 2006, Ms. Pelosi has been an outspoken critic of the administration’s treatment of detainees, saying the specter of torture had damaged the nation’s reputation and put military forces at risk. But it was not until late 2007 that it was disclosed that, as the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Ms. Pelosi had been briefed to some degree on the interrogation methods. Missing from the Hulse story was any leftist outraged that Pelosi would know of the waterboarding and not oppose it.

Answer 4

The size of ca area wise, Bagdad is/was same pop as chicago 18 provinces was once part of ottaman british empire englad drew this border 1921? majority shia large kurdish sunni minority smaller christian and yazedi population. Was westernizedculture wise but a police state under Sadam who stated off as gangster

Oil mostly in Kurdish north and shia south Basra is major port

Answer 5

It gets really damn hot over there in the summer time. Well the winter time too but the summer is ridiculous!!!

Oh yeah it can get pretty cold at night time there too!

Answer 6

YES , Americans are blowing it up and building bases while we export oil.

Answer 7

http://www.historyofnations.net/asia/iraq.html
Go to the the link above and do your own homework.

Answer 8

interested in a "field trip, are you??? lol