"We believed that Jesus Christ was coming with a force from overseas

[bigtree]

. . . to save us," said the village leader, Khalil Sadoon Haji Jundu, wrapping his gold-trimmed cloak around him against the morning chill. Scrawled behind him on the wall, images of U.S. helicopters and soldiers depicted the arrival of the blue-eyed fighters awaited by the Yazidi, an obscure sect of sun worshipers with roots in Zoroastrianism who have inhabited the valleys of the Sinjar range for centuries.

But more than two years later, as the Yazidis struggle for a political voice and an escape from the poverty they suffered during decades of oppression under President Saddam Hussein, tribesmen such as Jundu say they feel let down.

"We thought you guys were our saviors," Jundu told Lt. Col. Gregory Reilly as the two ate figs and sipped spiced coffee one recent morning.

"We still believe it. But we actually thought we'd be helped a little more," he said, his voice tinged with frustration.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/26/AR2005122600717_pf.html

[MrPrax]

1. What a minute...

You mean the Bush Administration had Iraqi supporters that thought the US military were Gods and they still managed to piss them off...

Imagine if Bush was Prez during ww2...cargo cults would pledge loyality to Japan and launch a nuclear strike against us!!!

[CrazyOrangeCat]

2. you must've heard wrong, Khalil . . .

. . . Jesus is in the Petrochemical Engineering bidness . . .

[No Exit]

3. LOL!! Yeah, and he was a board member for Exxon!

Little-Known Facts About Our Savior! (By Rev. Pat Robertson)

[CrazyOrangeCat]

5. ha!

;)

[No Exit]

4. With that sort of belief, these guys would fit right in in rural Texas

or Alabama, or Mississippi, or Utah, etc., etc.