Riverbend, the young woman who has written the true history of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in her blog, "Baghdad Burning" has published a new diary at:
http://tinyurl.com/...
She and her family made it safely into Syria in late July or early August, one of only two countries that will accept the Iraqi refugees without proper visas.
Undoubtedly, the United States requires that all such refugees obtain the necessary approvals before leaving Iraq.
But how, one might ask, can an Iraqi obtain a visa to the United States when our embassies there, new and old, are fortresses designed to keep most Iraqis out.
The success of the "Surge" can perhaps best be counted by the number of refugees who have surged to the borders, desperate to leave the violence and corruptions we have brought to Iraq.
The refugees have given up all hope of being able to survive in Iraq and are voting with their feet on the success of Bush's "democracy" in Iraq.
Soon Bush's General de Jour will give "his" report to Congress, after, that is, it has been carefully prefabricated by Bush and Cheney's speechwriters.
After hearing the fantasies which will undoubtedly be spun to Congress by the General and the battalions of public relations specialists hired for the occasion,one hopes Congress will have the common sense to summon Riverbend to Washington to testify as to the true reality in Iraq, before and during the "Surge", before and during the occupation.
One hopes too that Riverbend will continue to blog about her life as a refugee from her country. We need to know the truth about that as well.
What is the United States doing to help all those we have forced into exile? What are we doing to help them to establish new lives? What are we doing to pay for all the devastation we have caused?