Why Haven't You Heard Of "Operation Iraqi Asylum?"

Michelle Malkin ^ | Dec 27, 2005 | Juan Mann

[Ben Mugged]

Here’s a long-overdue New Year’s resolution for America: bring back the draft to fight the war and keep the peace in Iraq . . . but only for able-bodied Iraqis already in the United States, especially those here based on asylum claims.

While the United States expends increasing amounts of blood and treasure to make Iraq safe for democracy (among other things), the federal immigration bureaucracy is also keeping a back-door open for able-bodied Iraqis to flee their native country and remain in the United States to pursue applications for asylum and adjustments of status in potentially unlimited numbers.

Here’s the problem: whether under an outright grant of refugee status, or simply under the pretense of filing for asylum, the federal government permits able-bodied Iraqi-born citizens to hide out in the United States while American soldiers are fighting and dying in their stead. Has anyone in government thought this through yet?

One would assume that as part of "Operation Iraqi Freedom," the U.S. military would want to help find and train new recruits for the Iraqi National Guard or Iraqi police forces to help keep peace in the newly-liberated land.

So why not start with the fresh Iraqi recruits right in our own backyard?

[Ben Mugged]

the federal government permits able-bodied Iraqi-born citizens to hide out in the United States while American soldiers are fighting and dying in their stead.

Something is not right here.

[RichInOC]

Why Haven't You Heard Of "Operation Iraqi Asylum?"

Heard of it? I've seen it. In the prisoners' docks at the Hussein trial.

[sgtbono2002]

Its bad enough that a portion the guys we are training now in Iraq used to work for Saddam and cant be trusted I sure wouldnt want them in our Army.

[ClaireSolt]

I have a theory that it is the experience of emigre refugees who have lived in the
West in great numbers who are the real hope for development in Iraq and Afghanistan. Westerners have tried for 400 years to bring the benefits of Western civilization to far corners of the world with unimpressive results. However, since we ousted the Taliban 3.5 million Afghans have returned to their country bringing with them the benefits of their experiences of living abroad. We have 250,000 Iraqis in the US, and when they go home they will effect a cultural transfer of a magnitude that has not been seen before.

[The_Reader_David]

What's not right is that a democratically elected government in a Muslim country is not a guarantee of freedom of religion for a Christian minority.

We should have imposed a constitution on them the way we did on Japan. The one thing Saddam Hussein did right was to guarantee a secular society with equal rights to religious minorities (albeit equally curtailed and abused, but equal nontheless). We should have required that in their new constitution.

[tinamina]

There are about a million Christians in desperate need of getting out of there. They are persecuted under the Sunnis AND the Shias and their families are not safe when they work for us in any capacity in Iraq. I say let all the Christians come here, but let all the others serve in their Iraqi Army.