http://news21blog2008.disqus.com/Reporting from a new generation of journalists.enMon, 21 Jul 2008 17:27:47 -0000http://news21blog.org/2008/07/14/obama-mccain-skirt-iraqi-refugee-issue/#comment-6951049<a href="http://abajournal.com/magazine/2008/07" rel="nofollow">http://abajournal.com/magazine/2008/07</a>AprilMon, 21 Jul 2008 17:27:47 -0000http://news21blog.org/2008/07/14/obama-mccain-skirt-iraqi-refugee-issue/#comment-6951048It is strange that, with the entire Washington press corps repeating that the surge is a success, no one has wondered why over 2M Iraqi refugees have fled to Syria, Egypt &amp; Jordan. Most of them are professionals or skilled craftsmen. My brother is serving in the 101st Airborne in Iraq. When 33 Iraqi police recruits were killed by a suicide bomber last week, he and his translator watched CNN for hours. The talking heads never mentioned it, not once. I am posting a link to a story about the Iraqi refugee crisis.AprilMon, 21 Jul 2008 17:27:13 -0000