Who are the Iraqis ?

Who are the Iraqis?
By JOE BOB BRIGGS
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 even when "sanctions" are imposed.

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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[tigerjames1]

i am iraqi kurdish and iraq will stay united forever no matter what the invaders say. the idea of kurdish indpendence is the propganda of kurdish party. so don't let them divide us we are united and some day we will built our great country and kick all of invaders. don let any one divide iraq. long live iraq long live iraq

[R0977]

God bless Iraq and ALL the Iraqies.......

[Balizabet]

@spiritwolf50 Please, and I am not Iraqi, name a civilization that had writing older than 7th century BC. I would like to know!

[NorthCitySider]

@spiritwolf50

Other cultures that are older? Mesopotamia is the oldest civilization, if not the oldest in the world my friend. It was certainly the oldest in the region.

[spiritwolf50]

alot of these claims are bogus they took many things from other cultures that are older. but still keep up the iraqi pride.

[Treckorz]

@NorthCitySider Your very wrong Aramaic was the main language in all of iraq mixed with Neo-Akkadian.

[NorthCitySider]

@MrDiem2

No Aramaic was the language of central Syria and upper Mesopotamia. It was not the language of the entire middle east.

[arabiannight100]

@Arabchick18

hahahahhahahah im laughing at ur comment

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Iraq was never an arab country but gor arabnized by the arab invasions

educate ur self ( Iraq was arabian before islam under persian invasion) its was the kingdom of Lakham

( christian arab kingdom ) + ( Hatra ) +( Qedar )

[iraking100]

@satoofi93 nice comment but I dont think that the sumerian race was gone,

they got mixed with akkadians and the other semitics , and they may ignored thier language and spoke the semitic languages , same like when arab came ppl ignored thier languages and spoke arabic

[shagrath559]

@mamamya12 i love your comment my friend.and yes i wish islam never came to our country.we'd be the happiest people on earth.

[MrDiem2]

@arivas713 Iraqi identity is rooted in Aramaic-Mesopotamian heritage. Who where the Arameans? The original Arabs, only that they spread their language through diplomacy and peace, not war, but for a long time, Aramaic was the language of the entire middle east

[NorthCitySider]

@Arabchick18

Wait whered you get the stuff about the DNA test.

But I highly disagree. I saw pictures of Iraqi Kurds and they look NOTHING like the Arabs. Kurds are an Iranian-peoples. I think it depends on where they did the dna testing. But excluding Kurds, it does make sense to me that the ethnic groups of Iraq are closely related.