WaPo blames US for “refugee crisis” in ME

A front page story in the Washington Post by Sudarsan Raghaven reports, in a piece titled “War in Iraq Propelling a Massive Migration”, that the largest refugee crisis in the Middle East in 60 years is happening because of the war in Iraq. The insinuation is that same lie instigated by Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 myth of a peaceful Iraq before the evil neo-cons invaded.

The beginning of the story focuses on a former Iraqi recording star, Saad Ali, who hides, penniless, in a tiny apartment from the Jordanian police because he left Iraq during the war.

In the second paragraph, is the real reason he left;

Six months ago, near his home in Baghdad, two men threatened to kill him. Singing romantic songs, they said, was un-Islamic.

And then two paragraphs later;

“They will behead me. What else can I do? I have no choice.”

Now, I’m no mind reader, but I’m pretty sure he’s not talking about American soldiers.

The whole piece comes off like somehow the United States is responsible for this exodus of refugees from Iraq because we unseated Hussein – instead of the real culprit. Islamsofacism.

The rich began trickling out of Iraq as conditions deteriorated under U.N. sanctions in the 1990s, their flight growing in the aftermath of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Now, as the violence worsens, increasing numbers of poor Iraqis are on the move, aid officials say.

How about the millions who fled Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War? Or the millions who fled Iraq after Hussein’s bloody purges  to maintain his hold on power?

Buried on the fourth [internet] page of this story is the real problem;

“Who expected it would turn out like this — Sunni against Shia?” [refugee Widad Shakur] continued. “We were like brothers. Why is this happening?”

And on the fifth page;

“Is the government targeting us for being Shiites? No. But from individual policemen, we feel this,” said Ateih, 36. “They say, ‘You betrayed Saddam.’ “

So it really isn’t the war that’s “propelling” them out of Iraq, it’s their own people and their own petty biases. The war just provides a convenient excuse for the Washington Post to take potshots at the US. And the whacko Left takes it’s cues.

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