Show a little gratitude, Iraqis

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http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/1265/2007/01/2-112304-1.htm

Number of people displaced within Iraq? It's a staggering 1.8 miillion. Number of Iraqis who have fled to other countries? Two million and counting. Number of Iraqis who have been granted refugee status in the United States since 2003? A grand total of 466.

Those figures are from the International Herald Tribune. Such indifference to refugees is unforgivable as America has "an obligation to the Iraqis whose lives it has upended", it says. The paper notes the United States is planning to spend $20 million on helping Iraqi refugees in 2007. Compare that to eight billion dollars a month spent on waging the war, and you get the picture.

Writing in USA Today, Adam Goodheart of Washington College in Chestertown and political writer John R. Bohrer point out another "laughable" figure when it comes to U.S. help for Iraqi refugees: $500,000 that will go to the U.N. refugee settlement efforts. Doesn't sound too bad until you divide the figure by the millions who have left Iraq and get a figure of a few cents of aid per refugee.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Ellen Sauerbrey acknowledges it is difficult for Iraqis to pass U.S. immigration checks since the administratin tightened its system after the attacks on September 11, 2001, according to the Chicago Tribune . But the paper says Iraqis are not even allowed to apply for asylum at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.

[KoKo]

1. Absolutely! How CAN those UNGRATEFUL IRAQI's keep Blowing Themselves UP

when We've Killed their Dictator and given them an OPEN DOOR TO THEIR FREEDOM FROM OPPRESSION.

I agree! My patience has run OUT! Why the Fuck don't we just NUKE them back into the Stone Age where they CAME FROM! And while we're at it LET'S TAKE OUT IRANS NUKES!

Nothing will make AMERICA MORE SAFE than TAKING ALL THESE SUCKERS OUT! And ...the SOONER THE BETTER!

HEY Y'all! :sarcasm:

[JeffR]

3. DUzy comin' atcha, KoKo01

Though what savage humor earns someone on DU would be worth a thousands zings, zots or whatever the hell the anus-embedded braintrust on FR would award you, since they'd take your post at face-value, since they lack the sarcasm gene, among many others.

[KoKo]

4. Ok...i'll go back and do the "sarcasam" emoticom...in case

one of those ignorant "freeps" is creeping by and insinuating themselves here at DU....:D

[JeffR]

5. Leave it

No matter how much you point out sarcasm to these brain-dead Bushbot fundie hose-pails, they won't get it. DUers will.

[bdrube]

2. Ellen Sauerbrey: Another disgusting Republican hack who just WON'T go away.

Where do they FIND these people?