A Story About Iraq

Yesterday I went to see my doctor who is from Iraq and moved here to the USA when she was 28 in 1980. After we discussed my health needs, I asked her what she thought of what was going on in Iraq.
 I asked her this because I remember a visit I had with her before 9/11...before Iraq was invaded by the US and the statue of Saddam Hussein toppled. She had said..."Saddam is worse than Hitler."

So yesterday she opened up  and these are her comments:
"The Iraqis deserve what is happening to them because they have not learned to live together."

"Bush/USA did the right thing by capturing Saddam and ordering the killing of his sons (who were hiding up north...they were even worse than their dad.)"

When I was growing up in Iraq it was the safest country! We never locked our doors..we would have our garage door open all the time, night and day, we were not afraid of anyone coming to steal our things or hurt us. I could walk home from the university in the dark at 10:30 at night..safely.

When Saddam came into power...he had a circle of people who did his bidding and got rewarded...they were his henchman..if one of them overheard someone say something like. "Oh darn, we have no tomatoes because of the sanction." They would get their heads chopped off. You could not say one thing against Saddam or you would be killed that way.

"The happiest day of my life was when the Saddam statue was pulled down. I was watching it on TV here in this country and I jumped up and down on the couch in celebration..I was so happy! Yes, it was the happiest day of my life."

Bush did the right thing..Plan A was right, take out Saddam. He did not have a plan B and that was bad. They should have put in a good dictator...we do not want democracy. We like dictators..they just have to be good ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY-V-Bl7GU8 shows Iraq in the 50's...and tells of its history.

Spencer W Kimball Speaks On SELF RELIANCE

We are to build Zion, characterized by love and peace and unity.

https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1978/04/becoming-the-pure-in-heart?lang=eng#listen=audio

This is just a portion of the speech below. Click on the link above to hear the whole audio.

“The responsibility for each member’s spiritual, social, emotional, physical, or economic well-being rests first upon himself, second, upon his family, and third, upon the Church. Members of the Church are commanded by the Lord to be self-reliant and independent to the extent of their ability. (See D&C 78:13–14.)

“No true Latter-day Saint, while physically or emotionally able, will voluntarily shift the burden of his own or his family’s well-being to someone else. So long as he can, under the inspiration of the Lord and with his own labors, he will work to the extent of his ability to supply himself and his family with the spiritual and temporal necessities of life. (See Gen. 3:19; 1 Tim. 5:8; and Philip. 2:12.)

“As guided by the spirit of the Lord and through applying these principles, each member of the Church should make his own decisions as to what assistance he accepts, be it from governmental or other sources. In this way, independence, self-respect, dignity, and self-reliance will be fostered, and free agency maintained.” (Statement of the Presiding Bishopric, as quoted in Ensign, March 1978, p. 20.)

Underlying this statement is the recurring theme of self-reliance. No amount of philosophizing, excuses, or rationalizing will ever change the fundamental need for self-reliance. This is so because:

“All truth is independent in that sphere in which God has placed it, … as all intelligence also; otherwise there is no existence.” (D&C 93:30.) The Lord declares that herein lies “the agency of man” (see D&C 93:31), and with this agency comes the responsibility for self. With this agency we can rise to glory or fall to condemnation. May we individually and collectively be ever self-reliant. This is our heritage and our obligation.