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To: TimF who wrote (174782)	8/30/2003 2:40:50 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579732

... 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? The part where their civilization was in the ascendancy and non Arab.....Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent, Sumeria, Babylonia and Assyria. Their leaders were dictators but they were independent of foreign powers. Naturally, their boundaries were not the same as modern Iraq. http://www.countryreports.org/history/iraqhist.htm 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. With the Arab occupation, notably the Turks, the Iraqis were no longer determining their own future. At that time, many of them became Muslim. The Turks/Arabs were then followed by the Brits. ted