Don't forget Lou Dobbs was all for invading Iraq which created these refugees who are coming here

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I have noticed he hasn't talked about this too much.

Don

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/7/23/54610/5321

The US Ambassador to Iraq has written a two page letter requesting immediate amnesty and visas for all Iraq citizens who are working for the US government:

The intense pressure for visas "reflects the fact that the situation is pretty dire," said Roberta Cohen, principal adviser to the U.N. secretary general's representative on internally displaced persons.

Anyone having flashbacks to the images of the fall of Saigon yet? (Are we ready for a remake of one of my favorite flicks "The Killing Fields")

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so much for the humongous embassy compound we're buidling in the Green Zone...

"Our {Iraqi staff members} work under extremely difficult conditions, and are targets for violence including murder and kidnapping," Crocker wrote Undersecretary of State Henrietta H. Fore. "Unless they know that there is some hope of an in the future, many will continue to seek asylum, leaving our Mission lacking in one of our most valuable assets."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/21/AR2007072101359.html?hpid=topnews

Overall estimates of the number of Iraqis who may be targeted as collaborators because of their work for U.S., coalition or foreign reconstruction groups are as high as 110,000. The U.N. refugee agency has estimated that 20,000 Iraqi refugees need permanent resettlement.

The urgency of the situation has hit the Ambassador's desk as Bush's surge surges on.

There are other concerns about wholesale handing out of Visas:

With Iraqi immigration to the United States stuck at a trickle, however, it appears that humanitarian concerns have been trumped so far by fears that terrorists may infiltrate through refugee channels. Bureaucratic delays at the departments of State and Homeland Security have also bogged down the processing of immigration requests by Iraqis fleeing violence.

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1. Lou Dobbs is a faux populist with a very casual approach to the truth.

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2. Lou Dobbs is a one trick pony

If he can't create an enemy he's back to doing financial reporting and nobody watches. Nobody watching is bad news for an egomaniac like him.