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2007-08-07 Iraq

Abandoned - the 91 Iraqis who risked all

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Posted by lotp 2007-08-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Those who have already proven their mettle by aiding coalition forces at the risk of their lives would make good citizens. We here in America need more like them and we should provide a refuge for them.

Posted by Nero Unaising9066 2007-08-07 01:14|| 2007-08-07 01:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Would someone please remind me why Britain is there?

Posted by gorb 2007-08-07 04:11|| 2007-08-07 04:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Something like this is all in a day's work for a State Department employee (or the British equivalent thereof).

Posted by gromky 2007-08-07 06:10|| 2007-08-07 06:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe the Brits have decided they have enough Muslim immigrants.

/sarcasm

This is disgraceful. Surely we could find a place for them here. I thought the government desparately needs arabic speakers?

Posted by Bobby 2007-08-07 07:15|| 2007-08-07 07:15|| Front Page Top

#5 If Britain thinks it already has enough Muslims (true) maybe they can can trade some for these folks. Maybe even two Hook-ites and a player to be named later for each?

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-08-07 07:42|| 2007-08-07 07:42|| Front Page Top

#6 The cynic in me wonders though, who ARE these 'terps? They are probably right to fear persecution when the Brits (or we) leave, but perhaps it's not about collaboration with us, but about what they did before we got there? I bet a fair number had previous careers with Saddam's secret police - those guys went somewhere, and there were a LOT of them.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-08-07 07:46|| 2007-08-07 07:46|| Front Page Top

#7 If the FBI and NSA need translators so desperately, why don't we pick up their options?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-08-07 07:49|| 2007-08-07 07:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Now imagine what happens when the US, following Lardass Murtha's resolutions, "redeploys?"

Posted by doc 2007-08-07 08:23|| 2007-08-07 08:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Let me get this stright - known terrorists and murderers cannot be deported from Britan but these loyal translators cannot be given asylum.

Ok.

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-08-07 08:23|| 2007-08-07 08:23|| Front Page Top

#10 yeah if we can find room for all the iraqi immigrants who probably did nothing during this war why can't we fnd room for the ones who did help?

Posted by sinse 2007-08-07 08:50|| 2007-08-07 08:50|| Front Page Top

#11 Abominable behavior.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2007-08-07 09:14|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2007-08-07 09:14|| Front Page Top

#12 Perfidious Albion.

Posted by Lionel Glusing4113 2007-08-07 10:29|| 2007-08-07 10:29|| Front Page Top

#13 leave these folks to their own devices; why you would think they were British sailors or something........

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-08-07 14:19|| 2007-08-07 14:19|| Front Page Top

#14 "#2 Would someone please remind me why Britain is there?"

Setting a good example for The Wog.

Posted by eLarson 2007-08-07 16:03|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-08-07 16:03|| Front Page Top

#15 The British position was criticised yesterday by human rights groups. Tom Porteous, the director of Human Rights Watch in the UK, said the Government should reverse its policy. The UK has a very clear moral and humanitarian obligation to assist those who have worked for them in Iraq, he said.

Has hell just placed a large order for space heaters?

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2007-08-07 19:36|| 2007-08-07 19:36|| Front Page Top

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