Should we allow Iraqi refugees into the US?

[wooley]

Originally posted by FiLtH
Providing they come in legally and become part of the American society. Learn english, learn our customs, honor our traditions, and of course learn to love the NFL.

You know, as a dirty foreigner living in the US, this is the one bit I'm really struggling with.

Do I love America? Hell yes - the place has been very good to us over the last 2 years.

Can I swallow my pride and celebrate July 4th? Bring it on.

Thanksgiving? Who's got the pumpkin pie?

Learn to speak English? Actually, I feel like I'm unlearning English - but hey-ho.

Can I learn to love the NFL? Well lets just say I think it would be easier to convince all you guys to embrace soccer...

[lasersailor184]

Originally posted by Hawco
Absolutlety not-never in a million years.
I was in  cab with the wife a few months ago, I asked the driver where he was from, said he was from the middle east, I said what part of Iraq you from, he told me, I got him to pull over and let us out, Not driving in a cab by soemeone who more than likely wore an  Iraqi  uniform trying to kill me,
F$$K the pc brigade, I ain't having nothing to do with them, send them all to F%%%G Swededn or Norway if they like.
We got here and come back all F%%%D up and they get to come here and drive cabs and have a nice little life, something wrong with that picture.

You do realize that he probably came over to get away from Hussein and to persue freedom, right?  The same reason that your relatives came from where ever they are from?


Did you even bother to ask?

[Hawco]

Originally posted by lasersailor184
You do realize that he probably came over to get away from Hussein and to persue freedom, right?  The same reason that your relatives came from where ever they are from?


Did you even bother to ask?

Wsn't aware  Saddam was throwing Exit visas around like confetti.
He probably ditched the unifrom, faked himself an ID and  got a nice cushy gig going now.

[FiLtH]

Wooley you sees theres the problem. You may be a upright citizen, but if you can't love the NFL, then I don't even know you  

[Ball]

What about next door in Iran?

I hear there is going to be some prime, steaming, land put on the market soon?

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by tedrbr
I have to disagree... 90% of our problems over there come from America (and to some extend most of Europe) being dependent on cheap oil from the Middle East.  All about the sweet crude.

It is now as its vital to our and the worlds economies
And 100+ years ago it was the American indians and gold & land
Before that it was sugar
Before that it was gold again before that the spice trade
Anything  particularly a natural resource that creates or maintains a major boom in nations  economies will have wars fought over them. they may well be under the guise of somethign else. But in reality its often all about the economy

1-200 years from now it will be something else

[dmf]

Lets see here, no they shouldn't, they have a country, if the living conditions aren't perfect, may I suggest they do something to change the conditions.

[Ack-Ack]

Originally posted by Viking
I had a much milder version of PTSS after my little war, but I don't hold any animosity anymore towards by ex-enemies.

Just out of curiousity, where did you see combat?


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[Ack-Ack]

"Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free..."



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[GtoRA2]

Originally posted by dryroasted
Why dont we ask the native americans after all it's not really OUR land is it?

Sure it is, we kicked their primitive butts right off it.  Back then thats how it was done.


No sense crying over it now.

[nirvana]

Originally posted by WhiteHawk
The US is being criticized about not doing anything to address the refugee problem.  There are thousands, maybe tens of thousands who are trying to get into the country and being denied papers.

When isn't the U.S. being criticized?  Sometimes it seems like everyone hates America until they want citizenship, then it's the holy land.  Then there are those looking to advance their lives.  If you can learn English and blend into the melting pot as so many other immigrants have, fine.  I'm just asking why Iraqi refugees want to flee to America when there are other countries around them.

[Ack-Ack]

Originally posted by nirvana
I'm just asking why Iraqi refugees want to flee to America when there are other countries around them.

Because maybe they're looking for the same thing your family did when they came to this country...the chance at the American Dream.  


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[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Ack-Ack
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"Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free..."



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Thats words on a statue. not in our Lows

And 100 years ago we actually needed them

Now they actually hurt us

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Ack-Ack
Because maybe they're looking for the same thing your family did when they came to this country...the chance at the American Dream.  


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I suppose working to foster that same ideal in their own country is COMPLETELY out of the question

[Ack-Ack]

Originally posted by DREDIOCK
I suppose working to foster that same ideal in their own country is COMPLETELY out of the question

The same could have been said when your family first came to this country...


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