The Abandoned Iraqis - Shame on the UK

Now this is a big blot on the British Government. A really bad situation. The British Government allows refugees to flood into the United Kingdom but where people have actually helped us in delivering our foreign policy objectives, we treat them horribly. Why? Why are we so ungrateful? And unthinking? Do the grand panjandrums in Whitehall have rocks in place of their brains? And is Prime Minister Gordon Brown thinking? We keep on doing this. These are interpreters for the British Army units in Basra. As you can imagine, they are putting themselves in harm's way.

And as you can further imagine, they will and are being targeted as traitors by the assorted militias and terrorists in Southern Iraq. So given the fact that they helped us and in return, are facing danger to their lives and for their families, dont you think we should give them asylum and a leg up to settle in the UK? For crying out loud, they can be our greatest asset in the fight against Arabic speaking terrorists. Bring them into our counter-terrorist intelligence operations in the UK! But no, we are going to be stupid at best and criminally negligent at worst.

We did it to the Cossacks after World War II by handing them over to the Russians who massacred them mercilessly. See here, and here. Shameful, utterly shameful. And we are not talking about 5 people here or there, we are talking about hundreds of thousands of people, where the British soldiers actively took these cossacks, their families, women and children, using British military transport, and handed them over to the murderous communist thugs of Stalin. And nothing, nothing since then in the British history books or media, it is as if it did not occur. And not one British Soldier or Politician has done or said anything to acknowledge this shameful crime.

But they were "others". Think about those brave little soldiers, the Gurkhas. Their courage and loyalty is unmatched and legendary. And they have bravely gone into battle for Crown and Country for decades and decades. How do we repay them? Badly. See here and here. You can give a Gurkha a Victoria Cross but you cant give him Citizenship? You pay him peanuts which is not even sufficient to live upon properly. While you are happy to spend money down the drain on silly things such as the bloody Millennium Dome. Why on earth did these brave British soldiers have to go to the courts to ask for decent behaviour? Are we now lacking in any form of gratitude? some form of common sense? a bit of faithfulness and loyalty? How absolutely bizarre and heartless of us!

And now these interpreters in Iraq. Criminal.