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Originally Posted by AngelsSix
Posted by Paste Eater
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With respect, Iraqis (As well as most of the Muslim world) treasure their children, can't say the same for the dogs though
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I agree that they hate dogs. But they do not always treasure their children. I cannot tell you how many kids hung around us just for food, with no shoes, coats, dirty, sick. I realize that the country is in bad shape, but it amazed me that these kids could literally spend the whole day and do this for a week straight. If I was out of my mother's sight for more than 30 minutes and she didn't know where I was, she would come looking.
Some of these kids were just barely over 5. Sad indeed.
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Noted, mine would do the same
It's a shame we all aren't/weren't as lucky.
On the other hand, coming from rural Southern Ohio it wasn't unreal to go to school with kids who had dirt floors, no clothes, etc etc. It's a sad fact even if they wanted to, the parents couldn't do a damned thing. (Then again, being lazy, not relocating, and all the crap that goes with the culture here is a whole different story.) I remember when I brought my college girl friend home for the first time and she saw some of the houses along the roads in the back hills.
"people actually live there?"
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