For Iraqis, Exodus to Syria and Jordan Continues (NYT)

[ovidsen]

By SABRINA TAVERNISE
Published: June 14, 2006

BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 13 — In one of the first comprehensive tallies of Iraqis fleeing Iraq since the American-led invasion, an American refugee advocacy group has counted 644,500 Iraqi refugees in Syria and Jordan in 2005.

The figure, provided by the United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, a nongovernmental group based in Washington, is equal to about 2.5 percent of Iraq's population, and substantiates the overwhelming evidence of an exodus that has been accumulating in Iraqi passport offices and airline waiting rooms in recent months.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/world/middleeast/14refugees.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

This is a vote about the Iraq government that really counts. Iraqis are voting with their feet... and leaving.

[cantstandbush]

1. We need to keep this front of the people and pundits who choose to ignore

how the US invasion has destablized Iraq beyond belief. We are scattering Al-qaeda and Iraqis all over the ME.

[Magleetis]

2. So what

Zarqawi is dead. :sarcasm: