[coconutt2000]

The least we can do is put someone discreet on the front end of these cases to keep them from going into the "regular" channel.

From there we should be able to evacuate the families and personnel whose use to us is compromised by their exposure while during their duty.

If it is 100 families or a thousand families, resettling them in our country wouldn't be that much of a burden, and frankly their assistance in the face of life threatening danger proves that they would probably make great Americans.

I say discreet because if word of such a program got out, we'd get a lot more volunteers, and that's not what we're looking for or looking to do.

[Richard-SIA]

DO NOT LET THEM INTO THE U.S.!

Bilingual Iraqi's will eventually be in an enviable position to cash in on the growing economy that will come with stability and democracy.

Yea, life's a B*** now, but this time let's let the beneficiaries pay some of the price for freedom. Having something to lose may inspire the citizens of Iraq to turn in the thugs and fix their problems faster.

DO NOT let Iraq go the way of Mexico, allowing all the hard workers and motivated citizens to flee their government made problems, followed by the lazy non-workers looking to recapture the easy life that escaped them when the productive members of their socialist society left.

If it were up to me, the day Iraq the last U.S. soldier leaves, all Iraqi's in the U.S. should be sent home!
After having the advantage and experience of living here they should show their people in Iraq how to live like decent humans.

[taxesareforever]

"We gave them our friendship," Alyaa said during a recent interview at an Amman restaurant, wearing jeans and smoking cigarettes. "We gave them our hard work. And they don't even help us to have a new life." Is it so hard, she asked, "for America to give a visa to Iraqis to have a new life that they took from them?"

I thought that a "new life for Iraqis" is what our soldiers have fought and died for. We now have a contractor kidnapped for helping "give a new life" to Iraqis. Alyaa and her likes need to recognize this and realize that the lives of her countrymen and women is a whole lot better than before the U.S. intervention. She needs to quit her whining and face the facts. I have no sympathy for her at all.

[seacapn]

Unfortunately, we don't have the best record when it comes to helping out allies. Remember the Hmong after Vietnam? Or the Shia after the first Gulf War? Ouch.

[prion]

"It's a really tough thing," said Amnesty International's Frelick. "If you let all the interpreters leave the country, then what are you going to do? ... If we start evacuating Iraqis because it's too unsafe for them there, is that going to create a backlash in the U.S at a time when we're sending U.S. soldiers to Iraq and they're dying?"

Aren't we there to make Iraq safe? Never mind "backlash," what about the mission?