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My passion is ...

peace & justice

I know too much about ...

Nothing

My parents always told me ...

dont do that

My childhood ambition ...

being me

My favorite memory ...

playing god as 2 years old

Why I write ...

I love it

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

anything and everything, now I am focused on old Arabic books and psychology books

Politics, News & Issues > War & Peace Conflicts and the future of Iraq

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In 1979 Saddam took power, his first act was kidnapping and killing a few of his close comrades or whatever you call them. In 1980, the Iraq-Iran war started to drag the people into worthless 8 years of war that Iraq closed its borders for and made it near impossible for Iraqis to travel and see the world. So people are locked in for 8 years with no real breathing space. Iraqis had a breathing period from 1988 to 1990 when the Iraqi government opened the restriction on travel after the war. And then Iraq went into Kuwait and Iraqis get locked again, a nation of about 24 million at that tim...

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