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cal04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-01-07 10:27 PM
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Few Iraqis Are Gaining U.S. Sanctuary
With thousands of Iraqis desperately fleeing this country every day, advocates for refugees, and even some American officials, say there is an urgent need to allow more Iraqi refugees into the United States.

Until recently the Bush administration had planned to resettle just 500 Iraqis this year, a mere fraction of the tens of thousands of Iraqis who are now believed to be fleeing their country each month. State Department officials say they are open to admitting larger numbers, but are limited by a cumbersome and poorly financed United Nations referral system.

“We’re not even meeting our basic obligation to the Iraqis who’ve been imperiled because they worked for the U.S. government,” said Kirk W. Johnson, who worked for the United States Agency for International Development in Falluja in 2005. “We could not have functioned without their hard work, and it’s shameful that we’ve nothing to offer them in their bleakest hour.”

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat who is taking over the immigration, border security and refugee subcommittee, plans hearings this month on America’s responsibility to help vulnerable Iraqis. An estimated 1.8 million Iraqis are living outside Iraq. The pace of the exodus has quickened significantly in the past nine months.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/world/middleeast/02refugees.html?hp&ex=1167714000&en=31cc8ffc56a9ad85&ei=5094&partner=homepage
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-01-07 10:30 PM
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1. They didn't flee under Hussein (and yes, moran rwnuts, they were allowed to leave)
Edited on Mon Jan-01-07 10:31 PM by LynnTheDem
But now, thanks to George W. bUsh's Biggest Fuck-up In US History, record numbers of Iraqis are fleeing Iraq daily.

Good for Helliburton, though; less people standing between them & America's oil.
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