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<p>I seriously think we should take them in. There is no question they are fleeing political violence.</p>
<p>Then we can have a free-fire-zone. How come we don’t have bodycounts of our enemies?</p>
<p>I can’t imagine why they are leaving. </p>
<p>What about the “democracy”, the “better life” with which we have left the Iraqi people? Bunch of ingrates! Who needs, electricity, water, safety? Obviously overrated.</p>
<p>By sending them into Syria and Jordan, rather than taking them in, we are creating a permanent class of enemies in the Middle East of folks who were often part of the intellectual elite (often secular) of the country. </p>
<p>Like the Vietnamese who came here, they would likely be model citizens. Regardless, we owe it to them.</p>
<p>The last thing we need to open the US to is a million militant Muslims. If we can screen them and choose to take only the moderates and professionals, fine.</p>
<p>On this, I happen to agree with Barrons. Yes, strange…but true.</p>
<p>Militants in Iraq have no reason to flee Iraq. They OWN it.</p>
<p>True dat, Mini. Color me changeable.</p>
<p>who says these are militant muslims…where did that come from?</p>
<p>women and children, good thing the war is going so well and rumsfeld is doing such an amazing job with the peace</p>
<p>is peace even a goal with this administration</p>
<p>and what is the plan for victory, empty the country?</p>
<p>Mini, I’m afraid you and all the other blame-America-firsters are missing the obvious explanation:</p>
<p>They’re fleeing Iraq because they hate freedom.</p>
<p>Why does the blame-America-first contingent always have to have these things explained to them?</p>
<p>Sorry. I guess I was too involved with the drug-felon fellah gettin’ the gay massage in Colorado before his weekly call to the White House to note the errors of my ways. I’ll try not to let it happen again.</p>
<p>Stay the course. (I really do think we have a responsibility to take them in.)</p>
<p>good thing the Iraq’s are able to take care of business, and our post war plan is so effective, yeppers</p>
<p>so when immigrants poured out of russia after reagan essentially won the cold war thats a bad thing? No **** america is better to live in than iraq regardless of what government they have</p>
<p>You don’t understand. It is all part of Rmmy’s big plan. Drain out the innocent people and children. What will be left will be millitants. They will become easy targets and we will be able to crush them.</p>
<p>idk if ur being sarcastic or not, but people would obviously rather live in america than iraq, i dont understand how this new story is really revealing something,</p>
<p>welll golani89, if we are winning over there and things are going as well as Bush and Rumsfeld want us to believe and the Iraqi’s are now free in a democratic society, and we are “rebuidling” iraq, why are they leaving?</p>
<p>you don’t understand because if you look deep into the story, you will see that what we have been lead to believe about how swell it has been going was not factual</p>
<p>imagine that</p>
<p>perhaps i missed something or forgot something but i said nothing about the current condition in iraq except that america is better to live in, yet you some how quoted the word rebuilding from me and indirectly quoted something about free in a democratic society…</p>
<p>But in all seriousness why do you choose to be so thickheaded? It seems that you simply do not want to understand something so easy as people in Iraq would rather live in the US, regardless of how well things are going there or how bad they are. Everyone knows Iraq is not paradise, but internationally people want to move to America, or to emmigrate from their 3rd world countries or even “2nd world” its a very desirable thing to do. Look how russian poured out of Russia after the cold war-democracy was being rebuilt there, although still not perfect, their economy was on the rise, but they simple rather live somewhere else. You are trying to find something bad about Bush or this war in iraq from something as simple as immigration. If I were to tell you that unemployment is low for instance, you would fireback about something bad about the economy, or if i told you there are alot of illegal mexicans you would have a nice remark about human rights offenses in america. Just take things at face value instead of looking to bash our government, but i guess thats what comes when you live in san fransisco</p>
<p>golani:
100,000 Iraqis are not moving to the US each month. They are going to Jordan and Syria. Apparently they do not value the democracy we have brought them, opting for security and authoritarianism.</p>
<p>So the hell what were they go, its gonna be alot easier for them to emmigrate to jordan and syria than to iraq, its closer to home, they usually have family. I think america should grant them visas but they unfortunately dont so these people go where they can, jordan in contrast to saddam-iraq is nice a garden of eden</p>
<p>“jordan in contrast to saddam-iraq is nice a garden of eden”</p>
<p>In case you have not heard the news, Saddam is in jail.</p>