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Britain to airlift 2,000 Iraqis to a new life in Scotland

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This is an interesting article I found when reading the ABC News website. Apparently Britain has accepted 2,000 applications for resettlement from Iraqi’s that helped British forces whilst in Iraq, translators, etc.

A great point was made by one of the comments on the site:

You don’t pull your local “assets” out unless you are about to follow them.

Now that we have a change of government in Australia and a looming, almost probable change of government in the US to the Democratic party perhaps Britain is starting it’s “exit strategy”.

Britain to airlift 2,000 Iraqis to new life: report | ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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2 Responses to “Britain to airlift 2,000 Iraqis to a new life in Scotland”

calvin on March 25th, 2008 11:47 pm

wheres my poll on this one
i think that the brits are doing this coz they feel guilty. guilt compels many people to do out of ordinary things
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