WHO ARE
THE IRAQIS?
By: Joe Bob Biggs
NEW YORK, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Every decade or so, we
should remind ourselves of who the Iraqis are:
1. Twelve-thousand
years ago, they invented irrigated farming. They got to be so good at it
that, today, they can still produce all the food they need.
2. They invented writing.
3. They
figured out how to tell time.
4. They founded modern
mathematics.
5. In the Code of Hammurabi, they invented the first
legal system that protects the weak, the widow and the orphan.
6.
Five-thousand years ago, they had philosophers who attempted to list every
known thing in the world.
7. They were using Pythagoras' theorem 1,700
years before Pythagoras.
8. They invented artificial building
materials, some kind of pre-fab-crete stuff used to construct high-rise
towers.
9. Ur, in southeast Iraq, is assumed to be the
place we're all descended from.
10. They were the first people to
build cities and live in them.
11. For thousands of years, they
wrote the greatest poetry, history and "sagas" in the world.
12.
Because they were great horse breeders, they invented the cavalry
in war.
13. The Iraq Museum in Baghdad contains some of the most
outstanding stone, metal and clay sculptures and inscriptions created in
the history of the world. Some of them are more than 7,000 years old. If a
bomb hits this place, art lovers around the world will go into
mourning.
14. The first school for astronomers was established by Iraqis.
This is how the "wise men" got to be so wise. They knew how to follow the
star.
15. Beginning around 800 A.D., the Iraqis founded universities that
imported teachers from throughout the civilized world to teach medicine,
mathematics, philosophy, theology, literature and poetry.
16.
For the first 1,200 years of its existence, Baghdad was regarded as one of
the most refined, civilized and festive cities in the world.
17. Abraham,
the father of Israel, was from Iraq.
18. Abraham, the father of
Islam, was from Iraq.
19. Abraham, the father and "model" of
Christian faith, was from Iraq.
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