 BobbyRutan says: More: The report is critical of the U.S. inability to make good on its promises. Despite talk of allowing 7,000 Iraqi refugees into the U.S. this year, only 1,608 had been admitted by the end of September, 450 entered in October. By comparison, the U.S. government has resettled nearly three times that many Iranians this year — 5,481 With one Cairo-based coordinator handling cases for 15 countries, the U.S. lacks the human resources to keep up with thousands of referrals that continue to pile up from the United Nations' refugee agency, according to Refugees International. Officials at the Arab League, representing 22 nations, said Americans had never approached them about Iraqi refugees. Countries such as Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt — all American allies — receive little or no assistance from the U.S. and have begun refusing to admit Iraqis Meanwhile, the report continues, the U.S. is reluctant to recognize that its longtime foe Syria stands alone in its open-door policy for I The lives of displaced Iraqis are extremely tenuous. In most Arab countries, they aren't allowed to work, attend public schools or have access to public health care. They're dogged by a reputation of being more affluent than other Arabs, though even those who fled with money are struggling to make their savings last. Samir Sadeq Mahmoud, a 40-year-old Sunni Muslim, left Baghdad with his wife and four children a year ago, when Shiite Muslim militias seized control of their neighborhood. The family settled in Cairo and has scrimped by ever since. Khaled Ezzat, a middle-aged man who worked as a driver for a U.S. television network's Baghdad office, left Iraq last year after each of his three... Correct: USA Americans don't care nor do they want Iraqi refugees. The daily intense propaganda of war is also, I believe, increasing overall anti-Muslim and anti-Arab attitudes. $5-million dollars was approved by the House yesterday for another Holocaust Museum. Get the picture? Further proof that the well-being of Iraqis themselves had little to do with Bushco motives for the war. Veterans, Katrina survivors, uninsured children, Darfur refugees - is it not possible that conservatism's selfishness breeds disdain for those masses who suffer? And that Romney, Giulani, -maybe even Clinton- are cut of the same cloth? |
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