Iraqi Interpreters Should Get An Expedited Greencard

[Kathianne]

at minimum. They need to get out after they are called out:

http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/...tate_99843.htm

BETRAYED BY STATE

By OWEN WEST

February 29, 2008 -- AS a Marine, I was taught never to leave a comrade-in-arms behind on the bat tlefield. But that's exactly what the State Department is doing to men and women who've sacrificed everything to help our troops - our Iraqi interpreters.

When I last left Iraq 12 months ago, I promised to save two "terps" marked for assassination. Last month, I received a desperate e-mail from one of them: "Sir my situatione is so bad naw please save my life. Please help me sir."

A year after making my promise, I'm deeply ashamed that I haven't completed the mission. And I'm not alone: To help "their" terps, Marines and soldiers across the country are battling a bureaucracy that is at times more maddening than the Iraqi insurgency.

Shunning those who risk death to help us deliver freedom is un-American. ....

[retiredman]

I concur

[Yurt]

I concur

but do you agree....

[Dilloduck]

but do you agree....

[gabosaurus]

At the beginning of the Iraqi invasion, the military had several crack native Farsi speakers (and its related tongues). The government, in its infinite wisdom, got rid or reassigned most of them because they questioned their loyalty.
Figure that one out.