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Contributed by: paul batou on 6/16/2007

Ever since the war started to disarm Saddam's "WMD", several questions have possessed my thoughts about the war.questions about operation Iraqi freedom.

Will the American occupation become the catalyst to eradicate the last remnants of Iraqi Christians from their homeland? The same land they have called home since the very beginning of recorded history .Will they survive this trial? it is hard to answer this question considering that 50% of the Iraqi christians have already fled the country, while 90% of those remain have relocated inside Iraq.Iraqi christians make only 6% of the 26 million Iraqis.Even though they have no political or military influence , they have managed to survive and mantain thier language and cultural heritage.
During the last four years, thier crisis is deepening due to chaos and violence caused by the war .The extreme lack of security, goverment, and protection .
Will the american forces protect us? The answeris an unfortunate no. Will the iraq islamic goverment secure our freedom? The answer is no.
The Iraqi christians are now facing executions, kidnapping, and bombings that have spread to thier homes and churches .They have been threatened with the options to convert to Islam, pay Jizya "protection" tax, or leave the country all together. All of these injustices simply because we are like christians from the west.These extremists consder us crusaders...They consider us the enemy .
These Islamic extremists were succesful in reaching us here in our new home America .We have to pay from the US when a loved one is kidnapped in Iraq.sometimes, our loved ones are not even realsed at all. we have paid continuously to help our families in Iraq to survive .
I ask one more important question ; why we should pay for the mistake done by others ? Why do our finest sodiers along with the innocent Iraqis pay in blood while others collect the wealth of Iraq? For the Iraqi christians, there is still the worst to come. once the American forces withdraw from Iraq , another genocide will start.

paul batou

to learn more about destruction of mesopotamia order my book "my last thoughts about iraq"

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