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Agony Donating Member (865 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 08:54 PM
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Big trouble in Little Baghdad - Sweden has generous policy welcoming refugee
THIS is what AMERICA will do!
•CNN - The Bush administration hopes to resettle about 7000 Iraqi refugees to the United States this year, the State Department said Wednesday.

•Few Iraqi refugees allowed into U.S. - USATODAY.com The United States admitted 68 Iraqi refugees in the six months through March, a tiny percentage of those fleeing their homes because of the war

America! city on a hill, exceptional beacon of democracy to the rest of the world! Fuck Yeah! We bomb the crap out of your country until you move to (Sweden).

THIS is what Sweden will do!
News article is from "The Local" Swedish news in english. http://www.thelocal.se/10014/20080217/

'Big trouble in 'Little Baghdad' '

"Since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, more than 5,000 Iraqis have made their home in this small industrial town, which is located south of Stockholm and counts just 82,000 inhabitants, according to city council numbers."

""I understand that people want to flee Iraq. There's nothing surprising about that, and Sweden has a generous policy of welcoming refugees," town mayor Anders Lago told AFP."

"With 18,599 applications, Sweden was the European country that received most Iraqi asylum requests last year, and the Scandinavian country, which counts just nine million inhabitants, gave the thumbs up to 72 percent of all applications handled in 2007, the Swedish Migration Board said."
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provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 09:05 PM
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1. America shits on the world and the Scandinavians clean it up
what an absolute embarrassment. Since Iraq is now offically destroyed, America should have an open door policy on whatever Iraqi refugees want to come here. Pottery barn rules apply.
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Agony Donating Member (865 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 09:10 PM
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2. Sweden, slightly larger than the state of California. nt
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