"Baghdad Burning" is Back
Riverbend has a new entry (h/t Diane):
By the time we had reentered the Syrian border and were headed back to the cab ready to take us into Kameshli, I had resigned myself to the fact that we were refugees. I read about refugees on the Internet daily... in the newspapers... hear about them on TV. I hear about the estimated 1.5 million plus Iraqi refugees in Syria and shake my head, never really considering myself or my family as one of them. After all, refugees are people who sleep in tents and have no potable water or plumbing, right? Refugees carry their belongings in bags instead of suitcases and they don't have cell phones or Internet access, right? Grasping my passport in my hand like my life depended on it, with two extra months in Syria stamped inside, it hit me how wrong I was. We were all refugees. I was suddenly a number. No matter how wealthy or educated or comfortable, a refugee is a refugee. A refugee is someone who isn't really welcome in any country- including their own... especially their own.
There are an estimated 1.5 MILLION Iraqi refugees in Syria alone. Since the fall of Hussein in 2003 only 833 Iraqis have been permitted asylum in the US, and we will fall far short of our promised 7,000 entries for this year.
STOP THE INSANITY ALREADY!!!!!!
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/White_House_sends_Congress_expanded_1022200...
MORE madness.
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/White_House_sends_Congress_expanded_1022200...
We gotta leave the "turrest" over there so that we don't have to fight them over here...snark
“Baghdad Burning” is Back
Don't they have a lotion for that?
...and now that Dick & Bush are itching to nuke Syria, where are they going to run to now?
Burns and itches, have they been messin' with naughty girls?
Lucky bastards.
Ahh...the scorching, searing, and endless lies continue. The flames of hell are growing higher. The sheep of America baa baack home have no clue, and don't care. When is Family Guy coming on? Perhaps being a mindless zombie will make this easier.
Forget about Bahgdad...we have Katrina 2 going on out west...The friggin San Diego Zoo is evacuating some animals...
huh? The NYT just said Syria is kicking their 1.5 mil Iraqi refugees out and sending them back to Iraq.
Why did they leave Iraq? Weren't they enjoying the freedom we brought them?
Thanks for the heads up. I know her posts have been spotty this year.
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
Hey, listen you libruls, 9/11 changed everything (Tm).
Rusty Shackleford @ 10:
They went shopping to buy gifts of thanks to throw at the feet of US soldiers and herr dubyah.
why doesn't someone just light the gas coming out of bush.
that's the only thing real about him, except the pile of shit his administration is.
justabill @ 9:
Thanks for article...I had not seen/read nor heard of the "new"policy imposed by Syria. Can you
imagine 1.5 million Iraquis already within Syria being required to return to Bagdah in order to
attempt to have a visa reissued for entry back into Syria..when the "new" restriction as to
precisely who can return is soooooo limited? If I understand or interpret the new policy, it
is very, very unlikely that most of the 1.5 refugees will be permitted to return to Syria, so
the conditions in Bagdah and other cities is going to only get worse with the "required"
return and influx of refugees. This is a really BIG thing; but wonder if MSM is going to give
it the attention deserved?????
Blue Buddha @ 5:
nuke them ! that is the bush/cheney relocation plan for the displaced refugees from iraq.
it is October 22, 2007...
and nothing has changed.
the democrats in congress are pathetic failures. the democratic frontrunner, billary, is just 3 gnat pubes better than george bush. the GOP has devolved into the world's greatest danger. the climate crisis gets worse. the economy is skewed more and more to the uber-wealthy. the dissemination of truth has never been more difficult.
the country, the world is screaming for a true leader... the media, the political-elites, the DEM/GOP power brokers, the corporations, the war profiteers all are working to prevent the rise of a leader.
just sayin'
I feel so guilty when I read her posts. I know I didn't personally have anything to do with this damned war, but my country's name was on every fu*cking bullet and bomb.
Those fires in Calf. are hell on earth. Are their Nat'l Guard there to help them or are they in the other hell that is Iraq?
Sometimes I think, if we can't put out a big fire, how the hell do we expect to conquer a large country?
Dr. Matt @ 13:
Syria does have the best selection of chocolate and rose petals in the Middle East.
The only way the MSM would cover the refugee crisis in the middle east is if they could turn it into a god damn reality show. If they could do that faux would have it running 7 days a week and their brain dead sponge minions would spend millions in "voting" charges trying to decide who lives and who dies.
pissed off patricia @ 18:
I can get next to that.
We have a bad day if the power goes out for a few hours.
What is happening over there is *no words to describe it*
"Dodd screws up:
Senator Chris Dodd on Thursday single-handedly blocked a bill to legalize unconstitutional spying and
immunize criminals who have engaged in it. But by doing so, Dodd may have made the biggest blunder
Washington has seen in many months. He advertised the fact that a single senator with nerve has the power
to block a bill, including – of course – every bill to further fund the occupation of Iraq. Now, how will Dodd
explain his past and future failure to use the same power to end the war that he has used to end warrantless spying?
How will other senators, including Harry Reid, explain their own failure? How will Nancy Pelosi manage to keep
asserting in every conversation that only 67 senators can end a war?"
Ooops, must be running for President and getting desperate.
Geez, I wonder if our government is broken.
Andy @ 8:
Are the rescuing the rare California National Guard? I hear they are on the endangered list.
MargeAggedon @ 20:
Accurate, but even more truthful is fact that those faux minions have NO knowledge as to
the reality of what is actually going on in Iraq..especially w/regards to the refugees who
have been forced to leave their native land(due to bush's invasion and occupation), so
those faux viewers are just a small part of American's who continue to live in the dark
(probably in the dark of their dens/living rooms watching junk shows on TV) and seem to
care nothing about the adhorrible conditions the poor people of Iraq are suffering through
daily. No water, no electricity, and facing death each day...Sad but true and ALL only
because of this current administration and the total failure of the MSM to report the
facts.
Samson-says
correctomundo
Can there POSSIIBLY BE A CONNECTION between the ISRAELI RAID on Syria, at Cheney's insistence, and the Syria's decision to deport 1.5 million Iraqis back to the RESPONSIBILITY OF BUSH/CHENEY/LIEBERMAN?
(Just askin".....)
oldgringo @ 26:
Good point....does seem just a bit more than a coincidence that Isreal attacks Syria on
Sept. 6th, and within 3 weeks, Syria established a "new" refugee program whereby apprx.
1.5 million Iraquis are now being told they must leave and return to Iraq....
Weaseldog @ 23:
Oh don't worry. Blackwater's new trainees near San Diego will take care of everything.
MargeAggedon @ 20:
Not if it conflicted with "Dancing withthe Stars," it wouldn't. Gosh, I hope Brittany gets her kids back again.
Did you hear about Kids Rock getting arrested. He never should have left Pamela.
Um...what were you saying????
I'm glad River's okay
Thank Allah that Riverbend is still alive. I for sure thought she bought the farm in April when she stopped posting.
http://www.hillaryknew.com
ANYBODY BUT HER !
Blue Buddha @ 28:
Potrero is the original site of one of the biggest fires now roaming the county. Besides the fact that they will be contaminating local drinking water, won't it be nice to have a bunch of mercs in training firing all kinds of munitions off in a fire zone? I'm almost glad the fire started there (as opposed to somewhere else). That way we have more of our own ammunition when the county planning commission meets next year to discuss granting the site to Sewerwater.
Sooo... where are they going to live?
And who is going to pay for that? And where the f*#% is that all that oil revenue going, anyway?!! Where is the money going? The oil comes out. It is sold at record prices. Where does the money go? We don't have it, the U.S. just official went broke this week. We'll have to borrow money again from... someone. Anyone. If they'll lend it.
So where's all that oil money, dammit?
Even 7,000 is a disgustingly low number. We should take them in by the millions and invite them to become as integrated into our towns and cities as they choose.
Dr. Matt @ 12:
if 9/11 change everything, then doesnt the eventful killings before 9/11 itself change lots of lives, views and even respects?? who to be blame for that? the saddest part was to be a refugee to their own countries. imagine urself being a tenant of a broken home.
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