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Re: Freddie and Fannie: it's the Anglo Disease (4.00 / 2)

Which is basically what's going to happen.

Except of course the part about letting iraqis emigrate to coalition countries. I do not have the numbers but recently it was reported that the swedish town of Södertälje has accepted more refugees from Iraq then the entire US. And I bet there are towns in Syria that is housing more refugees then Sweden in total.

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by A swedish kind of death on Tue Jul 15th, 2008 at 10:12:34 AM EST
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Re: Freddie and Fannie: it's the Anglo Disease (none / 0)

True, but that's a reflection of the current president not wanting to make it seem as though incredible numbers of Iraqis are fleeing to America for safety. It'd kind of damage his whole "The surge is working" argument. I think you'll find Obama more open to it (assuming, of course, that he wins).

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Jul 15th, 2008 at 06:35:25 PM EST
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Re: Freddie and Fannie: it's the Anglo Disease (4.00 / 2)

Call me cynical, but I have a hard time imagining that. Not only would it set precedents that I think the US might rather want to not set, it would also be attacked - fiercely - by his domestic opposition. I don't think that anyone in Washington thinks a million or five Iraqis are worth the political capital required to treat them decently.

- Jake

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by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Wed Jul 16th, 2008 at 03:59:37 AM EST
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