Does anyone expect to hear the Rev. Jesse Jackson or the venerable John Kerry speak about this voter disenfranchisement:
"Iraq's out-of-country voting program began yesterday but the pro-democracy Iraqi American Christians, rather than being elated by the opportunity to vote in the first Iraqi election in decades, are enraged by what they see as ethnic discrimination against them in the process here in the United States and are debating whether to boycott it. The story behind this travesty is familiar to independent observers of U.S. Iraq policy: It reflects the U.S. government's favoritism of Iraq's Kurdish minority, and its indifference to the fate of the Christian one, overlaid with the intransigence of an international bureaucracy. This is devastating to a religious minority that is taking the brunt of terrorism and persecution within Iraq with the kidnapping of its beloved Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa outside his church in Mosul Monday as the latest example (he's since been released)."
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