MSM reporting millions of Iraq refugees. Do I smell a change in the wind?

[garybeck]

The top story on CNN.com is about the millions of Iraqi refugees. Months ago I heard it discussed that the MSM would not call them refugees because it is admitting that the war is a complete mess. Now that it's on the front page, perhaps this is a sign that the MSM is starting to really get tired of this war. They might be prepping for the September report on the surge, which I understand will be the final straw for some moderates republicans who will then jump ship and vote to defund the war, at which point the MSM will have the green light to jump ship along with them.

Either way, I'm glad they are finally telling the american people about the horrible tragedy of the exodus of Iraq refugees, and starting to put a face on the people we are killing and driving from their homes.

Iraq refugees chased from home, struggle to cope

According to a report released this week by the U.N.'s refugee agency, there were 1.4 million Iraqi refugees at the end of 2006, most of them in Syria and Jordan. Another 1.8 million Iraqis were displaced inside their own country, according to the report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. ( Iraq drives up refugee count )

In Turkey, there are an estimated 10,000 Iraqi refugees. The Toma family, from Mosul, Iraq, are now living in Kastamonu, a picturesque northern Turkish city nestled in foothills near an ancient castle.

They expected to only be here for a few months. But months turned into years of waiting.

"We just want to get out of here. We have no money, nothing. God is kind, we just want to get out," says the family matriarch, 77-year-old Isin Yelda.

"They killed my son," she says, weeping as she clutches a childhood photo of her son who drove water trucks for the U.S. military.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/20/damon.iraqrefugees/index.html