Christmas Now Official Holiday In Iraq
December 25th, 2008, 10:00 AM EST
The Iraqi government declared Christmas an official holiday for the first time this year. Here’s how it went:
- Thousands of Christians fled in the North to escape religious attacks.
- In the Shiite neighborhood of Shula, a bombing outside a restaurant killed four and injured 25.
- A pipeline was blown up in Kirkuk.
For Mariam Polis, who fled her home in Mosul a year ago after anti-Christian threats spread and two priests were killed, this Christmas was a day of bitterness.
“There’s not enough money, no house, no stability to prepare for Christmas Eve,” said the 55-year-old woman who now occupies a one-room clay house in the northern village of Ein Kawa. “It is better for us to die.”
So, how is this war working out again?
merry christmas to all the troops serving this great nation across the world and because of Bush, they are away from their families on this holiday season!
but let us look to the future and see a bright light.
less than a month to go and the bush administration will be a thing of the past.
truly, our wishes came true this holiday season in 2008
December 25th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
A senior Shiite cleric attended Christmas mass in Iraq. Do you have a clue how significant that was? Or are you just so full of hopeychangey bitterness that your view of the world has been reduced to a Cindy Sheehan poster?
December 25th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Well, the Dead Sea ensures that we will have an infinite supply of salt to rub into there wounds. I’m sure that makes the Christian’s happy. Jesus at any cost. Right?
December 25th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
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December 25th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
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December 25th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Good ! Merry Christmas to the troops.
December 25th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
The obvious conclusion I draw from this photo is … that the boys have been over there far too long.
December 25th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Great photo! I gotta say that got me and my dad laughing.
That’s an odd holiday for a Muslim-nation to declare. I wonder what the Pope thinks about it…
Well, Merry Christmas to the troops. I say the best gift we can give Iraqis is a speedy withdrawl.
December 26th, 2008 at 12:41 am
I wonder if the Christians fled north to Afghanistan? I’m sure things will be a lot better for our troops and the Christians up there. Fortunately, we have a president-elect who will soon focus our military strength in a place of such vital importance to the US and has such a great record for the treatment of Christians. Yes, indeed. Things are really looking up for the troops and the Christians. They will soon be out of the frying pan…I mean Iraq.
December 26th, 2008 at 1:23 am
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