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LynnTheDem

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Wed Jun-29-05 03:51 PM
Response to Reply #36

41. Doesn't matter what the land is called, doesn't matter what the invisible

borders are; Iraqis -whatever they're called- have lived for example in Baghdad, together, nary a civil war, for thousands of years.

We can change America's name to Bushica. We can annex Canada for Bushica. And Americans by any new name (Bushicans? Yuck!) will still have been living on the same land for hundreds of years that they live on now.

Iraq (Mesopotamia) 500BC-1000AD

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/06/wam/ht06wam.htm

Iraq History and Culture From Noah to Present

762 AD: As capital of the caliphate, Baghdad was also to become the cultural capital of the Islamic world. Baghdad became a center of power in the world, where Arab and Persian cultures mingled to produce a blaze of philosophical, scientific, and literary glory.
http://www.arabo.com/links/,199,225,218,209,199,222/,202,199,209,237,206/more3.html

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