Comments by "pqsk" (@pqsk) on "Shaun King: ’Khaled alone was stronger than the propaganda machine of Israel’" video.

  1. I was a soldier for the us army and was part of the illegal invasion of Iraq. I learned a lot about Arabs in that time. Learned how loving and peaceful the non extremists were. I was so shocked. When I returned my father, for some bizarre reason, scheduled me to speak at some church about my time there. I was just told to speak about my experience and so I told the truth. I told them about the civilians living there and how loving and caring they were and in fact was shocked at how devoted to their religion they were. They would pray daily and always prayed for us soldiers too. We would joke with them too, but they never backed down or said anything racist. The moment I said that many Christians in America could learn so much about them about doing the right thing and about how religious they were is when I was asked to stop talking. Actually there were members who started to leave. my father and I got into an argument about it after. I defended my position because I spoke the truth and just couldn’t understand why he wanted me to leave that info out. He knew I wasn’t lying, but he thought it was wrong to talk about Muslims in that speech that I was told to tell of my experience in Iraq. I’ll never forget that time. Beyond the good civilians that we encountered we also did encountered bad actors. I can’t say that I blame them. We illegally invaded and there were war crimes being committed all over the country. It’s either let it happen or join the rebels. I think Al Qaida and later Isis was horrific, but we made them stronger. Shame on us for going in for the oil and to cover up our sending chemical weapons to Iraq in the 80s. Those are at least the 2 reasons I’m aware of why we invaded. There could be even more evil reasons too
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