Reply #25: Whoa! People are fleeing the country??!!!

[F.Gordon]

To get out of Iraq requires passports and papers, but there's never a shortage of the desperate braving the heat and long lines for their chance to escape.

No one knows for sure how many have already fled the country – certainly in the tens of thousands. There are many thousands more who dream of making the exodus to almost anywhere that is safer than this place.

Hey, we liberated you. Don't you know that Iraq is a better place with Saddam gone? Hey, where are you going? Hey, come back....

Irony time: bush* has told us that a higher percentage of people in Iraq think things are on the "right track" -- more than they are here in the great US of A. Tens of thousands of Iraqis have fled the country. So....what does that say about how "on track" we are here?

I say put Saddam back in power, bring the troops home and let's call it a draw.