What will over 2 million Iraqi refugees do to the "stability"

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of the Middle East?

The vast majority of those refugees are now in Syria and Jordan, approximately a million in each. They can't work, they're not part of the society in which the find themselves. They will grow increasing impoverished. And they ain't returning to Iraq in the near or far future.

In 1948, approximately 700,000 Palestinians were forced or fled from Israel. We know the result of that.

This will be even worse.

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1. And there's another 2 million displaced within Iraq.

Displaced Iraqis top 4m and still rising

UN says displacement is rising due to lack of social services

GENEVA: More than four million Iraqis have been forced to flee their home by ferocious sectarian violence and the monthly rate of displacement is rising, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday.

“An estimated 4.2 million Iraqis have been uprooted from their homes, with the monthly rate of displacement climbing to over 60,000 people compared to 50,000 previously”, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokeswoman Jennifer Pagonis told journalists.

“Displacement is rising as Iraqis are finding it harder to get access to social services in Iraq and many Iraqis are choosing to leave ethnically mixed areas before they are forced to do so”, she added.

More than two million Iraqis are displaced within the country, of whom around half were uprooted following the February 2006 Samarra bombings, seen as the catalyst for the latest wave of sectarian conflict, the UNHCR said.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C08%5C29%5Cstory_29-8-2007_pg4_1

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2. Indeed. Not to mention

1 million dead. Near 15% of the pre-invasion population. That would be like 40 million + Americans.

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3. Saddam killed 300,000 Iraqis over 20 years

Human Rights Watch has estimated Saddam Hussein's regime killed 250,000 to 290,000 people over 20 years.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116052896787288831-8l5AMVpCdg07M3w6XdmTXoPuzno_20061109.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top

But 1 million of them have died since we invaded just over 4 years ago.

http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=14328

I guess it's true what they say. America does things better.