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Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Another Waste of Trees by the New York Times

Read the intro to this amazing, one of a kind, on the cutting edge NYT story.

Cheated Of Future, Iraqi Graduates Want To Flee

By Damien Cave
BAGHDAD, June 4 — They started college just before or after the American invasion with dreams of new friends and parties, brilliant teachers and advanced degrees that would lead to stellar jobs, marriage and children. Success seemed well within their grasp.

First, the students were looking forward to new friends and parties and they never got to enjoy that. I'll give them that much. After all, college life is mostly friends, parties, and the social experience. Yet, this cutting edge reporter forgot one little thing. These kids were living in Saddam's Iraq. What could they possibly have done with an advanced degree under Saddam? What 'stellar jobs' were waiting for them after graduating under the thumb of an evil dictator ruling over a decrepit nation in economic ruin.

Does any of that matter to this reporter? Nope, of course not. These kids missed out on parties and government jobs overseeing meaningless offices full of loyal Bath Party members doing nothing but living off the backs of the suffering.

Just another example of how the evil Americans have cheated the peaceful Iraqi elite out of job and security and the upper class.

posted by El Capitan at 8:06 AM

1 Comments:

Southern (in)Sanity said...

Good grief. This "reporter," to use the term very loosely, is insane. He obviously has done no research whatsoever with regard to what life was like in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

He certainly isn't afraid to let the FACTS get in the way of a chance to bash the United States and the war, is he?

10:14 AM