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To: tejek who wrote (174765)8/29/2003 8:38:23 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1579725
 
... Iraq has experienced none of that as of yet.

They were independent as a totalitarian state over two millennium ago...


???

Which part of this history do you consider to be an independent entity that is recognizably the same country as Iraq and existed over two millenia ago?

countryreports.org

The closest to me seems to be the Abbasid Caliphate which was Arab and was ruled from Baghdad but which wasn't over 2000 years ago and doesn't really seem to be that connected to modern day Iraq as far as I am concerned. The ancient Babylonians and Assyrans and Sumerians and Akkadians where in no way Iraqis or even Arab.

Tim