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Iraq

Plight of Iraqi Refugees

Juan Cole 08/08/2008

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The US has virtually ignored the 4.7 million Iraqis displaced by its illegal war in Iraq and its after-effects.

In an honest republic, this issue would be on American television screens every day. We didn’t directly cause all of it. We kicked it off.

Some links on the worsening situation for these millions of homeless, kicked out of their homes as at least in indirect result of American actions:

Displaced Iraqis should not be made to return by Preti Taneja.

Way Past Bedtime

Doonesbury on Iraqi Christian refugees

Filed Under: Iraq

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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