With Troop Rise, Iraqi Detainees Soar in Number

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Originally Posted by yesman065

And what of the hundreds of thosusands, if not millions that will be killed and/or tortured because we left?

If you really meant that, then you would be complaining of the few hundred Iraqis already fleeing their country because they helped Americans even many years ago. America refuses to let all but a few hundred immigrants flee to America. With well publicized embarrassment, that number increased to a paltry 7000 annually. Meanwhile the numbers that already must flee Iraq because they helped Americans - tens of thousands annually (including their families).

Why so much silence from yesman065? Even in 8 months, America accepted 113,000 Vietnamese boat people. But Iraqis are not worth protecting? They should go home?

Numbers that will only increase as Iraqi breaks down into more insurgencies - an inevitable fact based upon a strategic objective that is being lost every month. But this is good. Since America refuses to help former friends, then we should stay to only make others fear for their lives?

Long before using Iraqis as example, yesman065 should first explain why America does nothing even for the 2 million destitute refugees we already created? Why a double standard? The argument does not hold water when those who worry about in-country Iraqis also completely ignore the 2 million in worse condition.

Meanwhile, the Iraq Study Group that actually learned this stuff arrived at a conclusion completely different from yesman065's.