The guy sitting to my left said “There will be a day when they [Jordanians] will beg us to let them enter Iraq”.
Actually, that day had already come and stayed for months long before this sad episode happened to you and your fellow Iraqis in Jordan.
Not only Jordanians, but all Arab nationals were denied entry to Iraq in at least two periods between 2005 and 2006, with the second one being the longest.
And the funny thing is, during those periods, only Arab nationalities were denied entry into Iraq.
So it’s really not they way the article makes it sound like in the end. Iraq too has played this game in the past, and actually before Jordan, and today, it is Jordan, not Iraq, that has hundreds of thousands of the other country’s citizens living in it.
And when you think about it, it might as well have been a Jordanian saying that quote a couple of years ago about Iraqis, and what happened to you and your friends, was that day that that Jordanian talked about!
