The war in Iraq has “left scars and a visible legacy” among Iraqis.
Sami during the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. Sami was back from Iraq at that point. He criticized then-vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden’s proposal to partition Iraq.As you and the audience, the viewers, and many Iraqis still remember, Mr. Biden, when he introduced the bill to the Congress last year to partition Iraq, now he came back on the ticket.
Anyway, I’m back now. And regarding your question, I always tell my listeners that — and friends, of course, that Sami and salmon, the fish, has something in common: that they go upstream. But they also have no income, and that salmon doesn’t come back, but Sami keeps coming back, because my good friend Jeremy Iggers here from Minneapolis said, “Sami, remember, you always wanted to build a bridge for peace between the two countries, your country of birth and your country of choice.
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