Iraqi-American Christians blast U.S. policies in Iraq

[Bozita]

Source: Detroit Free Press

POSTED: 12:15 P.M. DEC. 11, 2009
Iraqi-American Christians blast U.S. policies in Iraq
BY NIRAJ WARIKOO
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER


At a forum featuring a senior State Department official, Iraqi-American Christians blasted the U.S. government for policies they said have devastated Iraq's minorities. Upset and frustrated, about 300 metro Detroiters with roots in Iraq, most of them Chaldeans, gathered Thursday night in a banquet hall in Warren where Michael Corbin, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, spoke to the crowd. Corbin, a diplomat who was appointed to oversee Iraq's minority communities, was grilled by an audience that criticized the U.S. for failing to protect Iraq's Christians.

"It's going from bad to worse," said Betsy Nasouri, 52, of West Bloomfield, a Chaldean who attended the forum. "And no one is doing anything about it."
Nasouri and others said the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and occupation has greatly affected Iraqi Christians, whose numbers inside Iraq have plummeted over the past six years.

Corbin said he couldn't comment on whether Iraqi Christians were hurt by the U.S.-led war. "I can't answer that," Corbin told the Free Press. "Let's leave that to the historians."

Iraqi-Americans at the forum also criticized the U.S. for denying entry to needy Iraqi refugees they said were forced to flee because of the war.

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[mbperrin]

1. This can't be true! Everyone knows the godless Iraqis are all

Muslims!!???

Just ask Glenn Beck, Hannity, or any of the other fucking geniuses at Faux.

If I need a sarcasm icon, check your IQ immediately....

[Hoyt]

2. There were some 1.4 million Christians who lived in Iraq

in relative peace before bush attempted to bomb Iraq into democracy. Last I read, half of them fled the country after bush started bombing. That disproves the right wingers' view that all Muslims are out to kill "infidels." But, they'll ignore it.