One hundred dead Media workers in Iraq

   Take a look at these pictures and ask yourself if there's something we can be doing for these Iraqi journalists and media workers who risk their lives everyday to tell us what's going on over there?  Most of them know they need to leave Iraq, but don't have any idea how to get out of there with their families.

http://www.iraqslogger.com/...

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  I've posted on blogs with Iraqis, such as Hometown Baghdad and Inside Iraq.  Some of these really brave people have e-mailed me their appreciation of the comments I've left for them.  They feel so alone over there.  Most of the people they used to know have fled.  They remain to tell the story of Iraq, but all of them know they have to get out of there sooner or later.  It is shameful that our nation and all the nations who can welcome these hard working people to their countries have not stepped up to the plate to give them refugee status and give them the credentials they need to get out of Iraq and come to a new home away from there.  So far, Sweden has been the most open country to them and people have to pay tens of thousands of dollars to get there if they can get there at all.  

  All the news organizations who employ these people and/or use their stories (yes, I'm talking about the Iraqis who have blogs all the outlets are reading to get their news stories) need to have an exit strategy for these people and sponsor them in the cities they are located in around America and around the world.  Obviously, these people speak English and other languages, so they'd want to relocate to a place that wouldn't have a language barrier.  Saudi Arabia could certainly take in more Iraqi families.  They have the wealth and very good reasons to give these people a home.  If we don't write letters to our politcos and media groups as well as donating money to the organizations that help these people, we're no better than those during the WWII years who sent the ships carrying refugees back to Germany and their deaths.