Before his death in 1933, King Feisal of Iraq wrote “with a heart full of sorrow” that there was no such thing as an Iraqi people. The country was made up of “unimaginable masses of human beings, devoid of any patriotic idea, imbued with religious traditions and absurdities, connected by no common tie, giving ear to evil, prone to anarchy, and perpetually ready to rise against any government whatsoever.”
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