http://news21blog.org/2008/07/14/obama-mccain-skirt-iraqi-refugee-issue/ Election 2008: What's At Stake? Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:03:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://news21blog.org/2008/07/14/obama-mccain-skirt-iraqi-refugee-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-2142 April Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:27:47 +0000 http://news21blog.org/2008/07/14/obama-mccain-skirt-iraqi-refugee-issue/#comment-2142 http://abajournal.com/magazine/2008/07 http://abajournal.com/magazine/2008/07

]]> http://news21blog.org/2008/07/14/obama-mccain-skirt-iraqi-refugee-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-2141 April Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:27:13 +0000 http://news21blog.org/2008/07/14/obama-mccain-skirt-iraqi-refugee-issue/#comment-2141 It is strange that, with the entire Washington press corps repeating that the surge is a success, no one has wondered why over 2M Iraqi refugees have fled to Syria, Egypt & Jordan. Most of them are professionals or skilled craftsmen. My brother is serving in the 101st Airborne in Iraq. When 33 Iraqi police recruits were killed by a suicide bomber last week, he and his translator watched CNN for hours. The talking heads never mentioned it, not once. I am posting a link to a story about the Iraqi refugee crisis. It is strange that, with the entire Washington press corps repeating that the surge is a success, no one has wondered why over 2M Iraqi refugees have fled to Syria, Egypt & Jordan. Most of them are professionals or skilled craftsmen. My brother is serving in the 101st Airborne in Iraq. When 33 Iraqi police recruits were killed by a suicide bomber last week, he and his translator watched CNN for hours. The talking heads never mentioned it, not once. I am posting a link to a story about the Iraqi refugee crisis.

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