The American ambassador in Baghdad, Ryan C. Crocker, has asked the Bush administration to take the unusual step of granting immigrant visas to all Iraqis employed by the U.S. government in Iraq because of growing concern that they will quit and flee the country if they cannot be assured eventual safe passage to the United States.
It appears that humanitarian concerns have been trumped so far by fears that terrorists may infiltrate through refugee channels. Another reason the administration has been slow to resettle Iraqis in large numbers is that Republicans would have to admit that they lied to get us to go along with making war on Iraq.
As with all fanatics, they ignored the 1400 year history of Sunnis and Shiittes fighting each other. Of course. with an election looming in 2008, they cannot admit that they "screwed up" royally.
Meanwhile, we not they, and thousands of Iraquis die in Iraq.
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