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babylonsister

(171,075 posts) Thu Sep 17, 2015, 12:17 AM Sep 2015

Do we welcome? I hope so.

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Do we welcome? I hope so. (Original Post) babylonsister Sep 2015 OP

When Germany has agreed to take 800,000 refugees THIS YEAR, PatrickforO Sep 2015 #1

PatrickforO

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1. When Germany has agreed to take 800,000 refugees THIS YEAR,

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Thu Sep 17, 2015, 02:46 AM

Sep 2015

it made me sick when I saw we were taking maybe 16,000. So bumping it to 100,000 is a step in the right direction, but maybe we should stop the wars and let these people go back home and live in peace. Because, sadly, we're the ones who have destabilized the region. If the criminals Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld had not lied to us and convinced us to allow them to invade Iraq, we wouldn't have this problem, and all these millions of people wouldn't have lost everything and be refugees.

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