Η αποστολή εξετελέσθη στο Ιράκ: Σύντομα, χωρίς κανέναν Χριστιανό εκεί!
Με τις πολιτικές τους, κατάφεραν την πλήρη εξάλειψη των … Χριστιανών, και όχι την εξάλειψη των τρομοκρατών, από Ιράκ!
by Demetrios Rhompotis
Now that former President Bush (the younger) has a library to keep record of his legacy and rewrite history, as another former President, Bill Clinton, noted (and he knows what he’s talking about), there is an accomplishment of his that not much credit has been given to and perhaps the newly inaugurated institution could help in preserving to eternity: it is now well documented that his and his father’s, to be fair and square, policies succeeded in fully eradicating the …Christians, if not the terrorists, from Iraq!
According to the available statistics, until 1990, before the first Gulf War, in Iraq lived 1,4 million Christians (the majority of them Assyrians – NOT Syrians).
On the eve of the American invasion of 2003, only half a million still lived there due to the embargos, the stagnant economy and the persecutions by the Muslims who saw in them an extension of …the “Crusade” undertaken by the US against Islam.
Today, after Iraq has been “liberated” and “democratized” for some time, just 200,000 remain and the number is waning as intensified persecutions against them by Muslim fanatics and Kurds who want them out, has made life impossible.
Note that Christians have been in what is today Iraq centuries before Islam was conceived and a big chunk of them still speak Aramaic, one of the languages that Christ was reputed of using along with Hebrew.
The Evangelical and other American Christians who so enthusiastically in spirit and generously in numbers supported Mr. Bush in his disastrous adventure in Iraq must now feel, as he does, I’m sure, vindicated and they can jubilantly, in their fashion, exclaim: “Mission Accomplished, praise the Lord! Yeah!”
Demetrios Rhompotis is a journalist based in New York and publisher of NEO magazine (www.neomagazine.com).
