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"Bloodbath" as a Rationale for Staying (none / 0) (#1)
by dutchfox on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 04:12:10 AM EST
From CounterPunch Diary, Alexander Cockburn writes:
Ken Pollack and Dan Byman of the Brookings Institution wrote an influential shock/horror scenario about the policy pitfalls of withdrawal, predicting a terrible refugee problem.(Pollack was previously a prominent salesman of Saddam's nuclear arsenal.) Right now, amid US occupation, the UN's High Commission on Refugees says 2000 Iraqis a day are fleeing their homes. Since the Americans invaded, two million Iraqis have fled their homes and two million more are refugees inside Iraq. It's the worst refugee crisis in the Middle East since the Second World War, outstripping the Israel-induced flight of Palestinian refugees in 1948.


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