The dirty bastards!

**InsaneApache** · 08-07-2007, 00:15

How

dare they. They deserve everything they get.

I thought we couldn't sink much lower, this disgusts me.

Britain was accused yesterday of abandoning 91 Iraqi interpreters and their families to face persecution and possible death when British forces withdraw.

The Times has learnt that the Government has ignored personal appeals from senior Army officers in Basra to relax asylum regulations and make special arrangements for Iraqis whose loyal services have put their lives at risk.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle2211281.ece

**Husar** · 08-07-2007, 00:20

Disgusting indeed, seems like they just use and then abandon them.

**Crazed Rabbit** · 08-07-2007, 00:26

Way to take care of your responsibilities, Britain.

CR

**Louis VI the Fat** · 08-07-2007, 00:37

I read that Denmark took in 200 of their Iraqi interpreters etc, plus their families.

Even if Britain absolutely, really, doesn't want Iraqi refugees in, then at least be creative about it. What would Jordan's price be to take them in? Just pay some country fifty thousand quid per family, fly them over there, and hand your Iraqi helpers some dough to get them started in their new home. Everybody happy. Gah.

**KafirChobee** · 08-07-2007, 01:17

No doubt this will change. The Brits tend to have consciences, and long memories.
While we in America do not - once it's over it's over. We wash our hands of any further responsability and turn away so we don't get bothered by scenes of retaliation against those that allied themselves to us - ref. Vietnam. Todate, America has turned its back on thousands of Iraqis that have already risked their lives to aid us. Bush has said we'ld get back to them - when we leave ... er, actually meaning it's just another thing he'll leave for the next Prez to clean-up. Mean while, most have fled Iraq - or gone into hiding. We did allow a few (very few, and with $$$$) to immigrate, some even to America.

**Lemur** · 08-07-2007, 01:32

Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit

Way to take care of your responsibilities, Britain.

The Brits are actually better behaved on this front than the U.S.A. Example.

Another example.

The reasons for this are as convoluted as they are senseless. There is the U.N. referral system, designed to identify refugees in need but broken beyond repair. There are America's post-September 11 immigration restrictions, which treat endangered Iraqi Christians as if they were havoc-bent Islamist radicals. There is the indefensible policy of refusing to grant visas from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, forcing Iraqis in search of asylum to make perilous and expensive journeys to the embassy in Jordan instead. And, above all, there is the transparent fiction that Iraqis, now liberated, no longer endure systematic persecution: No Saddam, no problem. This conceit may comfort the sensibilities of the Bush administration, but the death toll in Baghdad points to a different truth.

For years, the excuse that American officials have used to reject more liberal immigration laws is that terrorists will exploit them. But are we really incapable of distinguishing a translator who has risked his life--and the safety and well-being of his family--to serve U.S. forces from an insurgent? If so, we're in even more trouble than we think.

**Crazed Rabbit** · 08-07-2007, 01:39

The Brits are actually better behaved on this front than the U.S.A.

Better behaved? At least we're not pulling out yet, though the second example you show is bad (I didn't want to read the 16 pages of the first example).

CR