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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 08:55 AM
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U.S. may open doors to 25,000 (Iraqi) refugees
Source: WashTimes

The United States could take in up to 25,000 Iraqi refugees this year -- more than three times the number it previously agreed to admit -- in an effort to provide some relief to the crisis affecting several Arab countries, the State Department said yesterday.

The department also said it plans to allow Iraqis and Afghans working for the U.S. government in their respective countries to immigrate to the United States after only three years of service instead of the current 15 required by law.

"It's fair to say that, if we get the referrals (from the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees), we could resettle up to 25,000 Iraqi refugees within the president's determination this year," said Ellen Sauerbrey, assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20070417-101214-9988r.htm
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iconoclastic cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 08:58 AM
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1. LOL -- I can't wait to hear the conservatives howl!
"Buh-buh-but...th-th-th-they're TERRARISTS!"
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 09:03 AM
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5. I agree. I wonder how long it will take for some moran heads to explode. n/t
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jwirr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 10:17 AM
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9. And some of them will be. What are we going to do with these people?
Edited on Wed Apr-18-07 10:18 AM by jwirr
With the hate factors in this country raised high every time *ss talks they are not going to be safe here.


Edit: Dobson and the other white culturists will be up in arms.
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 09:00 AM
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2. Get Your Refuges Now, Before They're All Gone (dead) !
And I thought this country couldn't get more disgusting.
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 09:00 AM
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3. 1.25% of all the Iraqis that have fled their country
2,000,000 have fled Iraq.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 09:01 AM
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4. Sooo the Iraqi parliament is going to meet HERE?!?!
They obviously got the message last week-they actually meet *IN* Iraq and Boom! so it had to be back to London or here I guess

:guess:
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Sen. Walter Sobchak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:34 PM
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11. why not?
The South Vietnamese government still meets in Garden Grove Orange County!
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 09:03 AM
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6. Give them Mapquest and point them to Crawford.
1,600 acre refugee camp now taking reservations..........
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 09:07 AM
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7. How noble of us.
:sarcasm: I don't have the figures, but imagine 25,000/YEAR is a drop in the bucket compared to those fleeing and dead because of our actions.
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Az_lefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 09:51 AM
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8. I thought we were suppose to fight them over there.
:sarcasm:
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JDPriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 10:23 AM
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10. Fighting them over there so they won't come over here?
Edited on Wed Apr-18-07 10:25 AM by JDPriestly
Could you explain what you mean by that, Mr. Lush?

Let's just repeat this mantra over and over and over and over. Bush lied when he said it. The influx of Iraqis is was as predictable as the sunrise every morning.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 01:06 PM
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12. How many of those we bring in will be Pro Bush War...?
How many will band together to keep us in the Middle East forever? How many Chalibi's? (although he's Iranian...he still managed to sway our foreign policy and bringing in 25,000 Iraqi's who are Pro-Bush's Invasion will mean we will be in the Middle East forever.

What a terrible idea. But the RW will love it ...because they still love Bush and the NeoCons and the NYT's and WaPo will love it, too.
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