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The USA Is Not My Enemy: Coming to America after Operation Iraqi Freedom
Luma Ateyah loves America, so much so that when the Army rolled through her hometown in Bradley fighting vehicles and Abrams tanks last year, she made a flag to wave as they passed.
But Ateyah is not from the United States. She is an Iraqi from Baghdad, and the flag she waved had 51 stars.
“I tried to welcome the troops in my own way,” she says. “I wanted Iraq to join the United States, you see.” Read the rest of this entry »