nPosted on January 6, 2019
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n“Armed Forces” and “Iraq” don’t make the most comfortable of pairings – after all, it wasn’t that long ago that many nations in the world were embroiled in a very unpopular war with the Iraq government and then non-state forces within Iraq.
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How unpopular was the war? We’ve never seen anything like it: before the war even started, three million people in Rome and maybe as many as 11 million people worldwide protested, trying to prevent the war!
How unpopular was the war? We’ve never seen anything like it: before the war even started, three million people in Rome and maybe as many as 11 million people worldwide protested, trying to prevent the war!n
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nThat protest was the largest in the history of the world…
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n…And still, the enormous pre-war protest wasn’t enough to stop the war!
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nAs upsetting as recent Iraqi history has been, Iraq has amazing things to offer the world and has a very long, deep, rich history stretching back to some of the world’s first civilizations…
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nIt’s not all camels and deserts…
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nThere are archeological sites like Dur-Kurigalzu.
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nThere are cosmopolitan cities like Erbil.
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| The Erbil Citadel |
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| Erbil’s main square |
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| The covered bazaar in Erbil |
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nThere are beautiful mosques.
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nAl Abbas Mosque:
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nThe Minaret of Samarra:
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n Imam Husayn Shrine:
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nAlso on this date:
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nAnniversary of New Mexico’s statehood
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nArcheologist Heinrich Schliemann’s birthday
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nBirthday of French heroine Joan of Arc
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nCommunications Inventions Day
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nThree Kings Day / Epiphany
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Anniversary of opening of first Montessori school
Anniversary of opening of first Montessori school
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nNational Technology Day
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nMaroon Day in Jamaica
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