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Feedback ForumWhat responsibility does the U.S. have to Iraqi refugees?Submissions for this question are no longer being accepted. Previously submitted comments appear below. Comments may have been edited for content or space. Poster: Paul Nelson Comment: We should be providing special visas for those whom we have caused to be endangered in Iraq - translators, etc. But, it will never happen on the scale it should as long as this administration is in office. There 'stock in trade' is terrorism and are petrified of bringing in large numbers (>500) of Iraqi immigrants - on the basis that they may be potential terrorists. This is no longer the land of the free - Bin Laden has won. Poster: Arlene Wieland Comment: U.S. should leave immediately. We should give monetary support to peacekeeping and rebuilding operations involving other Middle East countries and under the supervision of the UN. Poster: mary bess Comment: We have caused them to be refugees, then we should make adequate compensation. I have not seen reporting that would help me understand the situation and what our responsibilities are. But, what a joke! A government that doesn't provide adequate equipment in the field to its soldiers and then neglects their war generated injuries at home is not going to worry about Iraqi refugees. For starters, let's stop creating refugees by getting out of Iraq. Then let's examine the issue of compensation for the harm we have created. Poster: Emily Kullmann Comment: We spend two billion dollars a week there bring chaos. How about if we spend one billion a week on helping the refugees? Imagaine that helping people and not hurting them. Poster: Bill Bodry Comment: if we ever expect to have help inside Iraqi ccommunity's, or any where in the world for that matter, we had better let them know we dont' abandon those who help us. to not do so is as good as throwing them to the dogs we are fighting. ( DUH ! ) Poster: Valerie Comment: None. We should not have gone there in the first place. Poster: Rsevereid Comment: None, none what so ever. Poster: Steve Amraen Comment: We made a mess out of their country. If we ever want to re-gain our moral position, we need to help the refugees. The oil companies & private contractors should foot the cost. Poster: Mary Ann Tetreault Comment: Iraqi refugees should be able to immigrate into the United States just as Vietnamese and Hmong refugees were able to. We owe them safe havens from the war we started; they would add to our diversity and capacity as a nation; and it would be disastrous for generations to come if their misery were to become a refugee crisis on the order of Palestine's. Poster: Marguerite Ponder Comment: We have a high responsibility to these people as we precipitated the event that has broken the country in the way it is now broken. Yes, Sadam was bad but so was/are many other dictators. Let the Iraqis come in. If we had a decent intelligence department, we wouldn't have to be so afraid that we are letting in potential enemies. Poster: Pamela S. Comment: The U.S. has devastated a country, destroyed its infrastructure, is reponsible for the deaths of 100s of thousands of Iraqis (according to the Lancet report). The U.S. is totally reponsible for Iraq, rebuilding and refugees. There is no way the U.S. can totally make this right--not after 10 years of sanctions and this most recent war, the deaths, the failed policies. Poster: Lynn Darling Comment: We ought to be treating them as TRUE friends, supported in every way and protecting them. As it is we are embarrassing our country and making generations of enemies, fuel for the next war. Poster: Nathan Booker Comment: The United States has a very big responsibility to Iraqi refugees. When we stormed into their country and caused massive disruption, we became responsible for the mess that we made. Thank you George W. Bush, we should ship all the refugees to Texas. Poster: John C. Bennett,M.D. Comment: Our nation has a serious obligation to provide refugee status to Iraqis who aided the U.S. efforts in the conflict in Iraq, especially translators and guides. Poster: Edith Groner Comment: Iraqi refugees helping American and pro-western journalists should be given refugee in the US. The translators who risk their lives to help american journalists and soldiers are particulary at rish of violent retribution and should be given refugee inthe US. Before the US invaded Iraq there were no suicide bombers in Iraq, Every year since the suicide bombers have doubled since occupation. We need to bring our trrops home now safely and not prolong the war and violence by occupying a civil war we cannot stop. they must work it out themsleves without dependency on our military. Poster: Arline Granberg Comment: Since the United States has caused the refugee problem, we are obligated to give refuge. Especially to those who have aided our country. |
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