Amazing how things can change so much in just 14 days...

[Contrary1]

Thank God George Bush is pResident. :eyes:

Oct. 20, 2007:

Money gone, Iraqi refugees forced to go home
Many reluctantly leave safe-havens of Syria, Jordan to return to 'death row'

"DAMASCUS, Syria - Their money gone, Iman Faleh and her family packed their belongings to reluctantly return to Baghdad — a journey they said was like going to "death row."

The religiously mixed family — Iman is a Sunni Muslim, the others are Shiite Muslims _ fled their home in a mostly Shiite part of east Baghdad in July and took refuge in Syria, joining an estimated 1.5 million other Iraqis here.

But in early fall, they became part of a growing wave of Iraqis leaving Syria for home, not because they are confident of Iraq's future, but because they ran out of money.

Others are returning because the Syrians have made it more difficult to stay. Most Iraqis cannot work legally in Syria and survive on savings or handouts from relatives..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21387023


Nov. 3, 2007:

Baghdad residents returning as violence drops
More than 3,000 families go home as average death toll drops to 30 per day

"BAGHDAD - In a dramatic turnaround, more than 3,000 Iraqi families driven out of their Baghdad neighborhoods have returned to their homes in the past three months as sectarian violence has dropped, the government said Saturday.

Saad al-Azawi, his wife and four children are among them. They fled to Syria six months ago, leaving behind what had become one of the capital's more dangerous districts — west Baghdad's largely Sunni Khadra region.

The family had been living inside a vicious and bloody turf battle between al-Qaida in Iraq and Mahdi Army militiamen. But Azawi said things began changing, becoming more peaceful, in August when radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army fighters to stand down nationwide.

About the same time, the Khadra neighborhood Awakening Council rose up against brutal al-Qaida control — the imposition of its austere interpretation of Islam, along with the murder and torture of those who would not comply..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21611469/

[DCKit]

1. Now That's interesting.

Earlier today I saw an article that said thousands are returning because their cities, towns and neighborhoods had been pacified.

Guess which one I believe?