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[maynerd]

Someone more incompetent than Bush?

I think Americans would be proud to know that we welcome to our country more refugees than all the rest of the nations combined.

"as of May, only 69 Iraqis had entered the United States” this fiscal year. In total, the United States has “resettled fewer than 500 Iraqi refugees” since the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Meanwhile, the situation in Iraq has become “the world’s fastest-growing refugee crisis.” Syria alone is hosting “1.4 million Iraqi ‘guests’” and Iraqi refugees have become increasingly desperate, some even resorting to prostitution. In total, there are more than two million Iraqi refugees.

Guess who!

Spoiler

Bush's wife of course...Laura Bush

 

[No6]

This may come as a shock to you but there are many countries with refugees fleeing, and that Iraqi refugees are going to be a sticky bunch due to the US' involvement.

 

[Yixian]

As usual, western nations babble on about immigration when the third world is the one that bares the largest brunt of the movement of refugees.

Remember that most of these neighboring countries taking Iraqis do so more or less without complaint, because in the end they don't have a choice, and the alternative is forcing thousands upon thousands of unarmed civilians back into a warground, which wuld only further destabalise the region.

When I was in Uganda, Kampala was absolutely flooded with Sudanese refugees - I was there just as the Ethiopians invaded Mogadishu.

It's the Ethiopians, and in the case of Iraq, the United States, who is responsible for whatever economic and social problems this influx of immigrants causes to outlying nations, and their own, no the refugees themselves.

These refugees would much rather be living in their own god damn home, but the callus violent nations stride right in an **** that all up for them.

 

[Tom_Cody]

Source? Context? Is she referring to Iraqi refugees specifically or refugees in general?

 

[maynerd]

Source? Context? Is she referring to Iraqi refugees specifically or refugees in general?

Good question.... Here's the info.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/20/laura-bush-iraqi-refugees

 

[LaneMeyer]

sounds as if shes saying that the US accepts more global refugees that any other country, and oh by the way, we accept some iraqi refugees too.

i was watching NBC nightly news the other day and they said the US has only accepted around 700 iraqi refugees (they were doing a piece on Sweden and how Sweden accepts over 1,000 iraqi refugees a month).

 

[maynerd]

sounds as if shes saying that the US accepts more global refugees that any other country, and oh by the way, we accept some iraqi refugees too.

i was watching NBC nightly news the other day and they said the US has only accepted around 700 iraqi refugees (they were doing a piece on Sweden and how Sweden accepts over 1,000 iraqi refugees a month).

See the OP. Less than 500 since 2003.

 

[Dali]

I saw on the news just the other day that an Iraqi woman was denied refugee status in the U.S. because Iraq is considered stable (among other reasons).

 

[LaneMeyer]

See the OP. Less than 500 since 2003.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18819436/

Click on "A Swedish safe haven for Iraqis".

"The US has taken in just over 700 since the start of the war..."

 

[maynerd]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18819436/

Click on "A Swedish safe haven for Iraqis".

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/op...0jun20,0,946531.story?coll=bal-iraq-headlines

This source says less than 500. Either way 500....700....1000...it's still a freakin small number.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

we accept some iraqi refugees too.
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holy shit get someone a medal for this amazing example of human outreach.

 

[siamesedreamer]

Think Progress needs to update their talking points......

 

[Ghengis Cohen]

Think Progress needs to update their talking points......

Oh shit 7,000? Well never ****ing mind. Problem solved, everyone go home and preapare a welcome basket for the Iraqis who will most certainly be moving to your neighborhood.

 

[maynerd]

Think Progress needs to update their talking points......

Wow at that rate they'll catch up to Syria (1.4mil) in no time!

 

[Enron]

Someone more incompetent than Bush?





Guess who!

Spoiler

Bush's wife of course...Laura Bush

I'm assuming you realize that there are more refugees in the world other than Iraqi refugees, right? Which makes your original post to be something of a stretch.

 

[Fun Factor]

I'm assuming you realize that there are more refugees in the world other than Iraqi refugees, right? Which makes your original post to be something of a stretch.

I'm assuming you realize that the 2 million or so refugee problem is directly caused by the U.S.

 

[Tom_Cody]

BUSH: Sure, in Lebanon and Syria and Jordan, and then here. And I think Americans would be proud to know that we welcome to our country more refugees than all the rest of the nations combined. And obviously we’re especially concerned about the Iraqi refugees, people who are there who are trying to build their government, trying to build a stable country, which is what our goal is, as well, who have left because of terror, really, because of the chance of violence and the fear of violence.
We welcome many of those refugees, both from Iraq and Afghanistan into the United States. We also spend about $80 million a year working with refugees, Iraqi refugees in the camps in Lebanon.

Considering that she was speaking on the topic of world refugee day (whose scope is far beyond simply Iraqi) it is extremely clear from her quote that she is referring to refugees in general in the text you quoted.
Simply as a matter of the geographical separation, it simply makes no sense that the US would accept the greatest number of Iraqi refugees. She then goes onto to call out US efforts to aid Iraqi refugees in Lebanon. Clearly the Iraq war is the cause of the refugees, but she is talking about our efforts to combat the problem. I don't see what the problem with what she said.

 

[maynerd]

Considering that she was speaking on the topic of world refugee day (whose scope is far beyond simply Iraqi) it is extremely clear from her quote that she is referring to refugees in general in the text you quoted.
Simply as a matter of the geographical separation, it simply makes no sense that the US would accept the greatest number of Iraqi refugees. She then goes onto to call out US efforts to aid Iraqi refugees in Lebanon. Clearly the Iraq war is the cause of the refugees, but she is talking about our efforts to combat the problem. I don't see what the problem with what she said.

I smell what you're cookin...but this line is what interests me the most.

We welcome many of those refugees, both from Iraq and Afghanistan into the United States.

All 700 of them out of 2+ million? Pretty small number to be saying many.

 

[Karma Kramer]

Everyone knows Laura isn't the brightest apple on the tree... I mean she did marry George Bush for christ sakes. :lol

 

[Tom_Cody]

All 700 of them out of 2+ million? Pretty small number to be saying many.

I agree, that was too much of a stretch.