The Imitation of Riverbend
The IHT is running copy by Anne Nivat, a french journalist who spent two weeks in Iraq. Ms. Nivat doesn't mention Riverbend, and her writing isn't as good, but it is in the OpEd section of a major daily.
I hope Riverbend and E and the aunts and cousins are safe. I wish Dennis and others would stop going on how they'd fix Iraq, since there can't be an "out now" until "conditions improve", and January 20th, 2009 may come and go without an substantive "improvement in conditions", but there could be bills to appropriate money for the needs of two million refugees moving to the floor today.
Friday the Danish government disclosed they'd just secretly evacuated all 80 Iraqi interpreters and their families, a total of 200 Iraqi nationals -- note well that Denmark has the most restrictive immigration policy of any of the EU states. The policy of evacuation to Denmark with immigrant status was announced as a humanitarian duty of the Danish state owed the Iraqi employees of the Danish Army in Iraq. Only the extreme right wing political party was opposed, and the Danish Army will exit Iraq in 30 days.
