Don't know about bringing these collaborators here to America

[NNN0LHI]

If they had no problem turning on their own fellow citizens in Iraq would they have any qualms about turning on us some day?

Don

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/iraq/2004189031_greencard19.html

Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - Page updated at 12:00 AM

When the Iraqi insurgent next to him put his assault rifle across his lap to fish the smokes out of his pocket, Kamal Salih knew this was his last chance to save himself.

He grabbed the barrel of the rifle with one hand and pulled his pistol from inside his waistband. It went off, and the car filled with the captor's blood. There were two other kidnappers in the car, but Salih pulled open his door and jumped into the dusty streets of Kirkuk before they could nab him again.

After two days of walking, Salih, 26, made it back to his home village and eventually down to Baghdad. That day in September 2006 convinced Salih that his work as a U.S. military translator would have to end soon. "If I stay in my country, I will die," he thought.

It took 18 months, more brushes with death, a mile of paperwork and help from some New Jersey National Guard soldiers before Salih made it to America. He received his green card Wednesday.

[Nickster]

1. What? Are you serious?

[NNN0LHI]

2. Serious as a heart attack n/t

[Nickster]

3. You're really out there on a limb.

[davidinalameda]

4. read the rest of the article before jumping to conclusions

these are translators and the like

not mercenaries

we need to save those working with us; the unofficial governmental policy for too long has been screw any locals who have helped the US

see Vietnam especially

[NNN0LHI]

5. You can trust someone who helped kill hundreds of thousands of their own countrymen if you want

I could never trust anyone who did that.

I read the entire article before I posted it.

Don

[Nickster]

7. So all those Vietnamese refugees that helped the South Vietnamese government have really had

a huge impact on America when they came here? Huge Vietnamese crime waves over here?

These are just regular folks who didn't buy into the religious extremism of either the Shia or Sunni sects. They thought the U.S. was the voice of sanity. Ever think that those folks helping us might be rejecting the violence that their own countrymen have brought on each other? Things are a lot more complicated than you are making it out to be.

[NNN0LHI]

8. Sorry but I could never help some thugs who Shocked and Awed my country

Under no circumstances could the people who did that to my country ever be my friend. I don't care if the invaders were handing out free Butterball turkeys and hundred dollar bills on the street corner after they got here. I would still hate them.

And I would hate any of my fellow citizens who collaborated with the invaders even more than the invaders. And I would never trust them either.

Don

[davidinalameda]

9. and one could say the same thing about the Viet Cong

but they were "freedom fighters", no?

[EFerrari]

6. I don't know what else they're supposed to do, though.

Who else do they work for? We've destroyed everything else and armed a bunch of thugs that are running wild all over the country.

Twenty six years old. When I was that age, I had two fat babies and was back in school. No worries really about eating or sleeping safe, let alone, being kidnapped.