From the article this was based on

"The influx has prompted government crackdowns and anger from local populations who feel refugees are grabbing scarce jobs and resources."

Sounds a lot like illegal immigration!
Maybe we could export some of our Mexicans there. They'll do jobs that Iraqis don't want!

talabani lives in wembley. wembley is better than al-mansour.
the jig is up.

There are certain factors that impact strongly on people's decision to leave their homeland. For example, anything brought into play by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence, and death. Iraqis can hear the hoofbeats, too.

I didn't see anything in the article about it, but is the US government making any special provisions for the USA absorbing some of the outflow out of Iraq? Possibly as refugees from the mess we created when Bush decided to break up the Pottery Barn?

Ok there is room in Mexico for them. Their fleeing numbers are far less than the numbers from Mexico into the US Perfect void existd for them.

If you burn down your neighbour's house, the least you could do is spare a cot for them, no?

I hear they're quite generous with chocolate and flowers.

Or better: just take about 24 million staunch supporters of the war from the u.s. and swap houses (or rubble) with iraqis...as a sign of support for the raping of iraq.

No one could ever have imagined that destroying the government of Iraq would result in chaos and death.

YEAH!
More proof "Democracy Brings Peace" and "The Worlds a Safer Place due to Bush's Leadership"!

Funny how we aren't hearing that anymore from the cheerleading moonbats!

I think the Iraqis must be leaving because the librul media doesn't tell them all the good news stories.

It's refugees that are unsettling the Mideast, not the suicide bombers, militias, Sharia law, muslims....

Chairpoodle,
"It's refugees that are unsettling the Mideast, not the suicide bombers, militias, Sharia law, muslims...."
Do you think that the two are mutually exclusive of the other? Do you think one dinamic can exist without the other?
Your simplistic views don't suprise me.

Coming from a guy that quotes Dukes of Hazard reruns.

Do you understand that the question you just asked me Crassus Jr?

remove "the"

It still does not cease to amaze when one writes a post like this -- featuring torture, indefinite imprisonments, wholesale and deliberate denial of due process -- and then focuses on the fact that what is described is actually happening in the United States.

You think your country is immune to certain evils, so when they happen right in front of your face, it takes you awhile to realize it's going on, because you just assume that it can't.
When you start to really describe the actions of the Bush Administration in its starkest and most naked terms - the imprisonments without trials, the torture, the disappearances, physical attacks on media institutions, the intimidation, all of it - you realize just how extreme and repressive and dangerous things have been for several years now.

A Timeline of CIA Atrocities

Jeff,

This is extremely biased. Most Iranians liked the Shaw and most want him back.

Do you have a problem with America?

and most want him back.


I mean, his son, of course.

Denver-
I was about to ask about that.

"Most Iranians liked the Shaw and most want him back."

I'd no idea George Bernard Shaw was so popoular among Farsi speakers. Did you conduct a public opinion poll throughout Iran in order to come up with that?

Even if it's Pahlavi, you're talking about Denver: where does this information come from?

Doc-
He pulled it out of his ass.

Doc-He pulled it out of his ass.
Posted by Boyd"


Same place those flying monkeys come from?

Doc-
I can only assume.

The House of Saud, the inbred mutant horde of the Middle East, is just about ready for their own civil war with the Islamist nutjobs!

"Most Iranians liked the Shaw and most want him back."
Posted by denver_coder

And why is that? Because Mossadegh was freely elected by the Iranians and the Shah wasn't?
Does this mean the Iranians hate democracy, just like the terrorists? Is that what you are saying?
Or do they want him back because he's been dead for over 25 years?

Just what is it you are trying to say?

I wonder how many of the pro-war types have invested a single dime of their own money in Iraq? According to them, every day in every way, things are getting better and better. The news reports we get to the contrary are nothing but liberal MSM propaganda.

That would seem like a perfect opportunity for them to invest! They could invest in the soon to be booming stock market there, get in on the ground floor of the health care industry, energy and a host of other blue chip investments.

Or do they really not believe their propaganda and only spew it because it prevents them having to do the unthinkable... admit they made a mistake that cost the lives of tens of thousands and destroyed an entire nation in the process.

Idiocracy did not come to my town so I've got it in my netflix queue. In the meantime some of these fine entries on the Drudge Retort will have to do.

YEAH! So where is condi? Shouldn't she be midwifin' these "birth pangs"?

I can hear her now:

"I don't know nuffin' bout birffin' no bebby's"!

What say the wingers?

JeffNDEnMaRk wrote,

"1991

The Gulf War -- The U.S. liberates Kuwait from Iraq. But Iraq's dictator, Saddam Hussein, is another creature of the CIA. With U.S. encouragement, Hussein invaded Iran in 1980. During this costly eight-year war, the CIA built up Hussein's forces with sophisticated arms, intelligence, training and financial backing. This cemented Hussein's power at home, allowing him to crush the many internal rebellions that erupted from time to time, sometimes with poison gas. It also gave him all the military might he needed to conduct further adventurism -- in Kuwait"

Jeff you are so stupid. Most of the equipment Saddam Hussein had in the gulf war was Russian. Thats why it didn't work and we blew the shit out of it. As for Saddam having a bunch of financial backing from us why didn't he use it to pay the 7 Billion dollars he owed Kuwait at the time.

Yes it is true that we did support the Iraqi side in the war with Iran. However, If we had given any real support it would not have taken 8 years and ended in a draw. No our position was to not allow Iran to invade and conquer Iraq. Thereby controlling more of the middle east's oil supply.

The reason that Saddam invaded Kuwait was because they would not forgive the debt he built up with them during the war and he wanted control over their oil fields.

As for Saddam killing, torturing, and gassing his own people that was still done mostly with Russian supplied weapons. Why do you think almost all Iraqi's own AK-47's? Who's tanks were blown up during the first gulf war?

No jeff this is what you do. You try to bash america and in particular republicans. Unfortuneatly your lies and twisted sense of moral outrage doesn't work on anyone but the willing and truly ignorant.