US upset over Iraq buying basmati from India

[W.G.Ewald]

Just to add some perspective, agricultural subsidies in the US have been in existence for many years.

Agricultural subsidy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

When farmers here lobby congress to influence international trade on their behalf, I would agree it is going too far.

 

[aerokan]

@JayATl

Liberating a country is one thing and toppling a govt. of a soverign nation for markets and resources is another thing. It's called business. And expecting business favors for doing something they never asked for neither called liberating nor free market ideology. It is called a disconnect between american people and the american govt.

 

[Yusuf]

I don't remember any "spring revolution" happening in Iraq. It was a false war everyone knows that and for strategic reasons. So let us not get carried away with Americans gave Iraqis freedom. Let us cut the crap. It was in US national interest to do so an may be a personal grudge of Bush.

The US has far worse regimes as friends Saudis being the primary whose nationals were involved in 9/11. No Iraqi has been caught for international terror.

 

[civfanatic]

I don't remember any "spring revolution" happening in Iraq. It was a false war everyone knows that and for strategic reasons. So let us not get carried away with Americans gave Iraqis freedom. Let us cut the crap. It was in US national interest to do so an may be a personal grudge of Bush.

Last year there were widespread protests against the puppet regime of Nouri al-Maliki. Nothing similar happened in Saddam's Iraq.

2011 Iraqi protests - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[spikey360]

Serves the US right. They gave Iraq a liberation they didn't ask for, hence got meted a treatment which they believe they didn't deserve either. Stupid yanks

 

[Yusuf]

Last year there were widespread protests against the puppet regime of Nouri al-Maliki. Nothing similar happened in Saddam's Iraq.

2011 Iraqi protests - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I was talking about Iraq under Saddam.

 

[ejazr]

Lets clear up some confusion, its not the US government that is saying this. Its the Rice farmer's lobby. So no point blaming the USG really.

Second, its an irrational comment to make espicially by the champions of the free market. But in difficult economic ties like now in the US, rationalilty goes out of the window.

What these farmers should be doing is cutting down on growing Rice and move towards groing more commercial crops rather than blaming market policies of the Iraqi govt.

 

[W.G.Ewald]

I prefer wild rice.

Wild rice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The species most commonly harvested as grain is the annual species Zizania palustris. Native Americans and non-Indians harvest wild rice by canoeing into a stand of plants, and bending the ripe grain heads with wooden sticks called knockers, so as to thresh the seeds into the canoe.

The size of the knockers, as well as other details, are prescribed in state and tribal law. By Minnesota statute, knockers must be at most 1 inch in diameter, 30 inches long, and one pound in weight.[4] The plants are not beaten with the knockers but require only a gentle brushing to dislodge the mature grain. The Ojibwa people call this plant manoomin meaning "good berry". Some seeds fall to the muddy bottom and germinate later in the year.

Several Native American cultures, such as the Ojibwa, consider wild rice to be a sacred component in their culture.[5] The rice is harvested with a canoe: one person vans (or "knocks") rice into the canoe with two small poles (called "knockers" or "flails") while the other paddles slowly or uses a push pole. For these groups, this harvest is an important cultural (and often economic) event. Named by the Ojibwe, the neighboring Omanoominii (the Menominee tribe, whose endonym is Mamaceqtaw, "the people") is named after this plant. Many places in Illinois, Indiana, Manitoba, Michigan, Minnesota, Ontario, Saskatchewan and Wisconsin are named after this plant, including Mahnomen, Minnesota, Menomonie, Wisconsin and many lakes and streams bearing the name "Rice," "Wildrice," or "Wild Rice."
Because of its nutritional value and taste, wild rice increased in popularity in the late 20th century, and commercial cultivation began in the US and Canada to supply the increased demand. In the US, the main producers are California and Minnesota (where it is the official state grain) and it is mainly cultivated in paddy fields. In Canada, it is usually harvested from natural bodies of water; the largest producer is the province of Saskatchewan.

 

[Darth Vader]

may be this another reason for obama to attack IRAQ again....lol..

 

[Darth Vader]

May be this is another reason for Obama to attack IRAQ again....lol..

 

[Mr.Ryu]

These bloody politicians India or Foreign will do and talk any thing to gain +1 vote.

Poor misled people's every where