Since a murderous, violent resistance movement (which antiwar people predicted) rules much of Iraq rather than the liberation cakewalk and democratic utopia (that prowar people predicted), an inevitable class of victims of the American invasion of Iraq has emerged (just as it always does, after an invasion.)
To the resistance, they’re collaborators and to the occupiers they’re living proof of failure. They want to get out of Iraq before the resistance kills them and their families for aiding the US occupation. The Americans in Iraq want them to shut up and go hide somewhere, so they won’t be embarrassed back home by the spectacle of Iraqis fleeing the US-recreation of the Garden of Eden in Mesopotamia. This woman sums up their predicament poignantly,
Alyaa hoped to find a haven in the United States but discovered the State Department isn’t resettling refugees from Iraq. She’s lost her faith in the country she once loved.
“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?”
Iraqi refugees in mortal fear at home can’t get entry into United States