The dirty bastards!

[Duke of Gloucester]

Nobody is abandoning anybody here. If and when the British and/or the Americans pull out, they will bring everybody with them who needs to come. But right now, the British and Americans are still there. The only story here is a few people whining because they want to "get theirs" the firstest, and then try to get the mostest. Well, right now they are still needed as interpreters.

Not to say that the US or Britain has always been right, or that any further mistakes they might make would not be very dishonorable.

You could be right; time will tell. However what the British are doing is pulling out of various areas of Iraq. Is it acceptable to wait until they finally leave before they bring out those in danger or should they bring people out when their city is evacuated?

[Tribesman]

Nobody is abandoning anybody here. If and when the British and/or the Americans pull out, they will bring everybody with them who needs to come.

History would suggest otherwise .

The only story here is a few people whining because they want to "get theirs" the firstest, and then try to get the mostest. Well, right now they are still needed as interpreters.

Are they ?
I thought Britain had withdrawn to the airport and handed over to the Badr brigades police and the crazy morality enforcement squads .
I thought their only real role now (apart from giving Bush a fig leaf ally on the ground)was to keep the road to Kuwait open for US convoys .
So how many interpreters do they need ?

Is it acceptable to wait until they finally leave before they bring out those in danger or should they bring people out when their city is evacuated?

The thing is that a premature evacuation of some Iraqi workers would cause panic , what must be done is leave it to the last minute , have a big scramble for the final helicopter , leaving most of them behind .
Then those that survive can get let in after perhaps a decade or so in a refugee camp if they can escape themselves or once they are released from detention and you do a deal with whichever faction is then in power .
Perhaps for good measure throw in a couple of attempts to forcibly repatriate the refugees in the mean time .

But of course we could always be blindly optimistic , ignore reality and say "hey maybe this time will be different and the usual cycle of events won't happen"