Bush administration finally welcomes more Iraq refugees.
By on Feb 14th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Bush administration finally welcomes more Iraq refugees.
For the first time since the Iraq war, the Bush administration has announced plans to expand its Iraq refugee program. “The United States has allowed only 463 Iraq refugees into the country since the war began in March 2003, even though some 3.8 million have been uprooted.” The new plan will allow 7,000 Iraqis to settled in the United States over the next year.
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I hope we can settle them in Virgil Goode’s congressional district.
-GSD
February 14th, 2007 at 2:11 pmCan we trade them for Neosluts?
February 14th, 2007 at 2:12 pmIf so, let’s take at least a million.
Watch for Bush to send them all to New Orleans.
February 14th, 2007 at 2:12 pmNew Orleans – here they come! Now who, pray tell, is going to pay for this?? Come on….we haven’t even taken care of our own displaced citizens of Katrina. Is this another project of a deluded mind incapable of fiscal accountability?
February 14th, 2007 at 2:15 pmAaarrgghh!!! The Muslims are coming!! This time it’s for real!! It’s the end of our civilisation!!
/sarcasm off
Now let’s let the Islamophobes get into a hissy fit over the fact that their Dear (mis)Leader is opening the gates for them Muslims.
February 14th, 2007 at 2:16 pmthe downside is that they’re all part of chalabi’s entourage
February 14th, 2007 at 2:25 pmWell, looks like the Iraqis ‘followed us home’.
Oops.
February 14th, 2007 at 2:31 pmdoesn’t this put the far right in a tough position. On one side is the dream and giving these people a place to stay and be safe. The other side is the potential of a terrorist sneaking thru this and then we would be fighting them here and that would show GW was defeated and we got terrists right here.
On the sane side, I am glad to see that our borders have not been permanently shut and that Lady Liberty still stands for something.
February 14th, 2007 at 2:41 pmGood thing….but Chimpy knows it is much better and much cheaper to kill them at home, so they do not need to grant them refugee status or political asylum.We want to help Iraqis, but green cards are not included in the helping program.
February 14th, 2007 at 2:41 pmWe are fighting them over there so that we can accept their refugees here.
February 14th, 2007 at 3:34 pm(auctioneer):
February 14th, 2007 at 3:45 pm“I’ve got 150, 150, anybody give me a 160 thou? Going once…..? going twice…..?
SOLD!! Ticket number 6,999 sold for 150 thousand dollars……
Do you think it pisses off the righties to know that the biggest sign of freedom and liberty in the United States is from France?
Comment by Spudge_Boy
Not as much as the fact that their war of choice has created a HUGE wave of immigrants from the part of the world they fear the most!!!
LOL!
February 14th, 2007 at 4:04 pmAnd I will bet the lucky ones all have freshly wrapped bundles of hundreds courtesy of bremer and his boys! The CPA ….no profiteer left behind!
February 14th, 2007 at 4:04 pmHope they bring some of OUR 9 BILLION DOLLARS back with them.
February 14th, 2007 at 4:04 pmLady Liberty is way past menopause.
February 14th, 2007 at 4:08 pmYes, we took less than 400 and left almost three million to overwhelm and overpopulate other countries in the Middle East and Europe. No wonder the rest of the world hate and despise us. Christ, I hate and despise us. And, the next time I hear some right-wing-nut ask why us libruls hate so much, THAT’S WHY, YOU STUPID F*!
February 14th, 2007 at 4:38 pmAre these 7,000 Iraqi refugees going to pick cotton in Texas or lettice in California?
February 14th, 2007 at 5:35 pmAre these 7,000 Iraqi refugees going to pick cotton in Texas or lettice in California?
Comment by ed pefferman
Neither. They will be packing meat in Minnesota in Ellisons own backyard along with the Somalis. And if that keeps up we will see a small new nation formed in Minnesota and probably annexed to Canada.
February 14th, 2007 at 6:00 pmAre these 7,000 Iraqi refugees going to pick cotton in Texas or lettice in California?
Comment by ed pefferman
Neither. They will be packing meat in Minnesota in Ellisons own backyard along with the Somalis. And if that keeps up we will soon see a small new nation formed in Minnesota and probably annexed to Canada.
February 14th, 2007 at 6:47 pmAre these 7,000 Iraqi refugees going to pick cotton in Texas or lettice in California?
Comment by ed pefferman
Neither. They will be packing meat in Minnesota in Ellisons own backyard along with the Somalis. And if that keeps up we will soon see a small new nation formed in Minnesota and probably annexed to Canada.
February 14th, 2007 at 6:50 pmResettle them in the Red states,Georgia,Utah,Oklahoma ,Nebraska and Mississippi.They wanted this war and it’s consequences more than (us) liberal commies remember.
February 14th, 2007 at 7:01 pm[...] he’s crying because Bush is letting the Muslims immigrate and steal our [...]
March 31st, 2007 at 5:42 pm