MSN: More bad news from Iraq

Earlier in the month we were shocked to find that Iraq’s gravediggers were in danger of being unemployed with the sharp decline in violence in Iraq. While we barely recovered from that news, we soon discovered that emergency workers’ jobs in Baghdad were being threatened by the same events (or, rather the lack thereof) as the poor grave diggers. While this is terrible news indeed, prepare yourself for, perhaps the worst news of all.

Refugees returning to Iraq are clogging border checkpoints from Syria and Jordan according to Agence France-Presse;

Iraqi generals say refugees are streaming back to their homeland from Jordan and Syria in such large numbers that frontier guards are struggling to prevent the smuggling of insurgents and arms.

“We are receiving tremendous numbers of displaced families at the borders of Syria and Jordan,” said Maj. Gen. Mohsen Abdul Hassan, head of Iraq’s department of border enforcement.

Border crossings are becoming congested with returning refugees waiting to re-enter Iraq, Gen. Hassan said at a press conference.

“We have difficulties dealing with the large numbers. There are long lines of vehicles,” Gen. Mohsen said, adding that his guards were already hard-pressed trying to intercept arms smugglers and insurgents attempting to cross into Iraq using forged passports.  

Yes, terible news indeed. Hasn’t the most recent complaint of the Left, since they can’t seem to agree on a number of dead Iraqis, been that millions have been displaced? So this should be more good news for them, right? They’ll be celebrating and clapping our troops on the back any minute now.

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