Iraq: Guinness World Record Breakers
In Iraq, a country floating on oceans of oil, you will find the longest queues of cars in the world forming at filling stations in Baghdad and other major cities.
In Iraq, there have been more suicide and car bomb attacks in July than any other place in the world.
In Iraq car bombs have killed more people than any other country in the world.
In Iraq, there are now more unruly armed militias than any other country in the world, including Somalia.
In Iraq, there are now more foreign troops than any other country in the world.
Iraq is the only place in the world where foreign troops do what ever they want to do - such as killing innocent people, invading cities, bombing cities, crashing armor into cars with families, etc - with impunity.
Iraq is the only country where foreign troops detain nationals and put them behind bars without trial.
Iraq is the only 'independent' country in the world where foreign occupation troops are above the law.
Iraq is the only country where all senior officials, ministries and administrators live behind concrete cement walls.
The number of Iraqi doctors, university professors, engineers and intellectuals who have fled the country in a few years is higher than any other state in the world.
There are more armed gangs in Baghdad than even New York and the number of abductions of Iraqis in the city is higher than anywhere in the world.
The number of Iraqis killed per month in Baghdad is higher in per one thousand population than any other city in the world.
Iraq is the only country in the world where political, sectarian and religious factions have the right to ring offices with blast walls with concrete towers protruding into the streets and manned by trigger happy guards.
There are more televised scenes of horror coming out of Iraq than any other country in the world.
The list is by no means exhaustive. Only the restriction on the number of words by the newspaper forces me to stop listing what should have gone into the Guinness Book of World Records long time ago. Link
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