They cheered the U.S. invasion; they offered to help, signed on as translators, risked everything they had to work for the United States. But when they had to run for their lives, America slammed the door.
In the past, notes Bill Frelick, refugee policy director at Human Rights Watch, the United States has often aided those persecuted for supporting it; since the Vietnam War, 1 million Vietnamese refugees have been resettled in the United States, including tens of thousands of South Vietnamese army veterans. But the Bush administration "has abdicated that obligation," says Frelick. "The people who have fled are the ones the administration was relying on to build democracy in Iraq; it would rather ignore them than acknowledge that its initiative has failed.
That is how Bush wins 'hearts and minds': Thanks a pile for helping my stupid plans fail. Tough shit all your countrymen want to kill you. It's your goddam fault it didn't work. Whaddya expect us to do, welcome you with open arms? Kick rocks, 'Raqs.
I'm ashamed of us.
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