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Denying Bush's Legacy in the Middle East

A central goal of neoconservatives embittered by the miserable debacle in Iraq and the American people's wholesale rejection of their worldview is to rewrite the history of the last 5 years of our involvement in Iraq so as to...

Posted on January 5, 2008 7:00 AM

Iraqi Refugees Trickle into the US

The blog at Refugees International has some data on the resettlement of Iraqi refugees in the US: America's allies in Iraq must think that the U.S. is inefficient, ungrateful or both. According to the State Department's latest figures, in August,...

Posted on September 14, 2007 2:00 AM

Christians Flee Persecution in Iraq

Newsweek reports on the massive dislocation of Christians in the Iraqi Diaspora that has resulted from the US invasion of that country: Before the war, members of the Assyrian and Chaldean rites, along with smaller numbers of Armenians and others,...

Posted on July 17, 2007 5:00 AM

Massive Increase in Number of Iraqi Refugees Taken in by US

As Iraq Slogger reports the generosity of the Bush administration when it comes to refugees from war-torn Iraq simply knows no bounds. The month of June saw an almost unbelievable 6300% increase in the number of Iraqi refugees admitted into...

Posted on July 9, 2007 1:00 AM

Iraq Refugee Count Still Climbing

The Iraqi Red Crescent Organization has boosted its count of Iraqi refugees in neighboring countries. Iraq Slogger has the report. The new numbers are: Syria 1.5 to 2 million Jordan 700,000-750,000 Iran100,000 Egypt150,000 Lebanon40,000 Refugees International has released their...

Posted on July 5, 2007 9:00 AM

The Growing Humanitarian Crisis in Iraq

In February of 2006, insurgents blew up the golden dome of the Askariya shrine in Samarra touching off a wave of sectarian bloodletting and triggering a massive internal displacement of people in Iraq. The United Nations High Commissioner for...

Posted on June 21, 2007 4:00 AM

Iraq's Refugees Suffering Under Miserable Conditions

Reuters has a report on the squalid conditions in a refugee camp in Iraq. Hussein Abd-al Zahra fled the violence around Baghdad but now feels he is fighting a losing battle against the heat and dust in the Iraqi...

Posted on June 20, 2007 6:00 AM

National Call-In Day For Iraqi Refugees

Refugees International has announced "National Call-In Day" asking you to call the White House and encourage the President to provide more funds for the 4 million Iraqi refugees who have been displaced as a result of the war in...

Posted on June 19, 2007 4:00 AM

Refugees? What Refugees?

Conservatives continue to live under the wild delusion that our intervention in Iraq hasn't created any refugees has created only a fraction of the number of 4 million refugees reported by the UN and NGOs like Refugees International. Iraq Slogger...

Posted on June 7, 2007 9:00 AM

Bush Agrees to Admit 7,000 Iraqi Refugees

Photo credit: Refugees International. I've been beating the drums about the Iraqi diaspora for several months now in posts here, here, here, and here. Most Americans have simply no idea that 2 million Iraqis have fled the chaos and violence...

Posted on May 31, 2007 1:00 PM

Desperate Conditions in Iraqi Refugee Camps

IRIN has issued a report on the squalid conditions in a refugee camp on the Syrian-Iraqi border: Hundreds of Palestinian refugees stranded at al-Waleed makeshift camp in no-man's land between the desert borders of Iraq and Syria are living in...

Posted on May 22, 2007 8:00 AM

Escaping Responsiblity for the Iraqi Diaspora

I first raised the issue of the Iraqi Diaspora in posts here and here. Last weekend, an outstanding article covering the Iraqi refugee crisis and entitled The Flight from Iraq appeared in the New York Times written by Nir Rosen....

Posted on May 16, 2007 8:30 PM

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