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2015-05-26 Iraq

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Posted by trailing wife 2015-05-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 That's a big increase in population. They might be needing some lebensraum.

Posted by Bobby 2015-05-26 07:48|| 2015-05-26 07:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Sunni refugess = Shia apathy. The "Iraqi" government is now simply the Shia government. Iraq has fractured without the US troops to hold it together. We should have simply divided it peacefully when we had the chance. Bush and Obama both f'd up the opportunity.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-05-26 11:37|| 2015-05-26 11:37|| Front Page Top

#3 The Kurds have been noting how the Iraqi "national" govt is doing nothing for these reguees and sending them to Kurdistan. They are also refusing to pay the Kurds their back salaries.

I would happily pass them on to Turkey and let them deal with them.

Posted by frozen al 2015-05-26 13:15|| 2015-05-26 13:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Months ago I did read that the Iraq central government was still paying salaries of its employees - in IS-occupied Mosul. Made no sense at all, unless the central government is a Potemkin village of sorts.
FTA: "the central government has not allowed the refugees to seek asylum in Baghdad or nearby areas." That is THE issue - why isn't that the headline and topic of this article? Even the news currently being reported out of the former Iraq makes no sense.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-05-26 13:37|| 2015-05-26 13:37|| Front Page Top

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