"That's just not right," the 63-year-old Stoesser fumed. "If we've got some rice to sell, they ought to pay a premium for it just because this is the country that freed them."

Wow. They should pay what he demands because we 'freed' them? The ignorance in that statement tells me all I need to know of his mindset.

FTFA: "That's just not right," the 63-year-old Stoesser fumed. "If we've got some rice to sell, they ought to pay a premium for it just because this is the country that freed screwed them."

FTFY. Saddam Hussein was our boy, back in 1968, hen Kennedy thought the Ba'aths should run Iraq and keep out those nasty Soviets. We helped that guy become President in 1979, and funded him until the late 80's, when he started to get the idea that he, not the CIA, ran Iraq. After asking permission to invade Kuwait and getting conflicting answers from the U.S. and France, well, we had to play Iraq against Kuwait and piss off France, so we pummelled Iraq in 1991 and then put the country under an embargo for a friggin' decade (except for that whole "oil for food" bit, where we starved Iraqis until they coughed up the oil we so very much wanted to control to begin with), and they just dragged along until 2003, where we went in under a completely manufactured pretext to level the country's major industrial, manufacturing, and technological centers (except, of course, for their oil-related facilities), steal everything we could find, destroy archaeological sites that date back to the beginnings of civilization, and round up a kangaroo court to execute Saddam Hussein for a "crime" we helped him commit back in 1982. We didn't "free" them - we destroyed the country, for no good reason other than we had a window of opportunity where we could use naked military force instead of diplomatic & financial pressure.

That whole "reconstruction" effort after Gulf War II: Iraqi Boogaloo was a huge sham, meant to funnel money to people who otherwise would never see pallets of cash. We left the Iraqis with an immense fortified compound that we laughingly call our "embassy", a whole new set of puppets to rubber-stamp contracts designed to rip off the Iraqi people, and a devastated countryside. "Freedom" was never an option - we simply engineered a changing of regime, one that would be more conducive to our current requirements and goals.

The Iraqis (you remember them, right - the folks that have been fought over by other world powers since 1968) are sick and tired of our shiat, to put it bluntly. If all they do is decide not to buy our overpriced products, we should count ourselves lucky. "Freed them"? Really?

Dude, grow rice and shut the fark up.

shut your subsidized whore mouth and start growing something else you frkking texan twat

He shouldn't be surprised, nobody buys rice from the USA except people in the USA.

Cubansaltyballs: Sounds like some farmers need a lesson in the free market.

Some farmers? You funny.