Thursday, December 6, 2007

HW# 34 gold in the family

HW# 34

A lot of the Iraq families have gold, but many of them have lost it because the military doesn't know about the culture of Iraq. I never knew either until I read about it in Baghdad Burning. Riverbend says that almost every family has gold now. They have it from the dowries from when they get married. Also many of the families changed in their life savings into gold when the dollar value went down, that way they didn't loss some of their savings. When the military invade their houses to check for weapons they find the gold and think that the family stole it from someone who is rich enough to have gold. They then take the gold, so the families loss they life savings, all because the military doesn't know about the culture of Iraq. Why did we not teach them before they went over there seeing as we are supposed to be over their to help them rebuild their country, not that they need our help, because they were fine until we went over there and destroyed it.

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