Segregation at American base offends Iraqis

[Rose Siding]

Here at this searing, dusty U.S. military base about four miles west of Baqouba, Iraqis — including interpreters who walk the same foot patrols and sleep in the same tents as U.S. troops — must use segregated bathrooms.

Another sign, in a dining hall, warns Iraqis and “third-country nationals” that they have just one hour for breakfast, lunch or dinner. American troops get three hours. Iraqis say they sometimes wait as long as 45 minutes in hot lines to get inside the chow hall, leaving just 15 minutes to get their food and eat it.
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Ahmed Mohammed, 30, called the signs — in English and Arabic — racist.

He has worked as an interpreter for the U.S. military since 2004. He is college-educated and well versed in the ways of Western plumbing. He said that Warhorse was the only American base where he had encountered such U.S.-only signs.

“I live in the same tent with 80 Americans,” he said.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/217995.html

[marmar]

1. Now we're exporting Jim Crow to Iraq?

I think the Iraqis have had quite enough of American "Democracy."

[izzie]

2. Now that is funny. Sorry but the Middle East people saying

this is just funny if you are a women.

[Rose Siding]

5. We all regret the loss of women's rights in Iraq since the invasion.

However, it doesn't make this any less offensive.

[izzie]

7. True

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[baldguy]

3. What? Do you expect us to treat those bloddy wogs the same as our Brave Warriors?

THEY should be GRATEFUL that we don't force them to prostrate themselves every time an American comes within sight of them.

[0007]

4. What gift are we giving to Iraq ?

Forms of democracy

1. Representative Democracy

2. Liberal Democracy

3. Direct Democracy

4. Socialist Democracy

5. Anarchist Democracy

6. Tribal Democracy

7. Consensus Democracy

[baldguy]

6. Sham Democracy

Just like the Good 'Ol U. S. of A.!