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One of my most searing memories from growing up was a pre-travel get-together my sister and I attended before we became two of three minority kids to participate in a summer in Europe program when I was 16 years old. The other dozen or so participants in the program were mostly rich, white kids from St. Mary's Academy prep school. The other minority kid was a huge, Mexican-American kid named Moises, who was traveling on scholarship (my sister and I were on partial scholarship, those scholarships being based on your grades and an essay, btw...) At one point, one of the trip sponsors, an old lady who had to be kicking 70, offered a comment on Moises' inclusion in the group. "He's just so grateful," she beamed in that special way only a person who considers the 1950s the "good old days" can. If I hadn't been raised right I would have "accidentally" spat on her shoe.
Now it's the Iraqi people's turn to get a pat on the head, not from some goofball old lady, but from the American people, their liberators. So here you go, Iraqis! We blew all the rebuilding money on strippers and Cuban cigars for the occupation authority and stuffed the rest in Paul Bremer's foot locker, but we did give you Moqtada al-Sadr in parliament and a couple hours a day of not getting blown up! Are you grateful yet???
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