“When America launched a war against Iraq, did the people here think they came to free us?” a friend asked me. Yes, I replied.
“That's not what we thought, we believed America came to conquer and occupy us.”
My friend is not apologizing for Saddam Hussein but is speaking as an Iraqi Christian woman who was forced to leave after the U.S. invasion. Since then, Iraqi Christians have been almost eradicated from their country—the land of their heritage.
America broke the dam. In toppling the regime of Hussein, it also released the torrent, including ISIS, that engulfed Iraqi Christians.
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