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Organization: When the Power of Love overcomes the Love of Power then we will know peace. Jimi Hendrix 1942-1970
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 11:56:59 -0600
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Who Are The Iraqis?
>
> Every decade or so, we should remind ourselves of who the Iraqis are:
>
> 1. Twelve-thousand years ago, they invented irrigated farming.
> They got to be so good at it that, today, they can still produce
> all the food they need even when "sanctions" are imposed.
>
> 2. They invented writing.
>
> 3. They figured out how to tell time.
>
> 4. They founded modern mathematics.
>
> 5. In the Code of Hammurabi, they invented the first legal system
> that protects the weak, the widow and the orphan.
>
> 6. Five-thousand years ago, they had philosophers who attempted
> to list every known thing in the world.
>
> 7. They were using Pythagoras' theorem 1,700 years before Pythagoras.
>
> 8. They invented artificial building materials, some kind of
> pre-fab-crete stuff used to construct high-rise towers.
>
> 9. Ur, in southeast Iraq, is assumed to be the place we're all
descended
> from.
>
> 10. They were the first people to build cities and live in them.
>
> 11. For thousands of years, they wrote the greatest poetry,
> history and "sagas" in the world.
>
> 12. Because they were great horse breeders, they invented
> the cavalry in war.
>
> 13. The Iraq Museum in Baghdad contains some of the most
> outstanding stone, metal and clay sculptures and inscriptions
> created in the history of the world. Some of them are more than
> 7,000 years old.
>
> 14. The first school for astronomers was established by Iraqis.
> This is how the "wise men" got to be so wise. They knew how
> to follow the star.
>
> 15. Beginning around 800 AD, the Iraqis founded universities
> that imported teachers from throughout the civilized world
> to teach medicine, mathematics, philosophy, theology,
> literature and poetry.
>
> 16. For the first 1,200 years of its existence, Baghdad
> was regarded as one of the most refined, civilized and
> festive cities in the world.
>
> 17. Abraham, the father of Israel, was from Iraq.
>
> 18. Abraham, the father of Islam, was from Iraq.
>
> 19. Abraham, the father and "model" of Christian faith, was from Iraq.
>
> 20. Iraq , is the second largest reserve of oil.
>
> 21. Before 1980, Iraq had the largest number of date palm trees
> in the world.
>
> 22. Iraqi wheat, rice, and meat are considered among the finest
> types in the world.
>
> 23. Iraq, has the biggest soft water/population ratio in the
> world, seven rivers.
>
> 24. Iraqis, once had the highest percent of highly educated people.
>
> 25. Iraq, is one of the world's richest territories in historical
> sites and holy shrines.
