Half a million Iraqis fled from their liberators and became refugees last year

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-us-refugees-survey,0,485783.story

Survey says 500,000 Iraqis fled fighting in 2007
By WILLIAM C. MANN | Associated Press Writer
2:12 AM CDT, June 20, 2008

WASHINGTON - A half-million Iraqis fled their embattled country in 2007, the third consecutive year more Iraqis were displaced than any other nationality, a survey of the world's refugees reported Thursday.

As before, most went to neighboring Syria, and some fanned out into other neighboring countries, the survey by the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants said. It said the United States accepted few, just over half the 3,000 it had promised to resettle by the end of September.

The report said the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees had referred 10,000 Iraqis for U.S. resettlement.

It said the Iraqi exodus "from the violence and instability of their homeland" constituted "the largest refugee crisis of 2007."

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1. The Surge is working

So what if 1/2 million people lost their homes.

Big Oil got it's contracts

We get to stay in Iraq and protect the oil companies

And KBR, Haliburton, Blackwater, and others still make billions

Besides the surge is working