Al Sabah Al Jadeed Newspaper said Friday in an editorial titled "Who can open the U.S. door for Iraqi refugees" that displacement and immigration has been one of Iraq's many nightmares.
"Every once in a while, the U.S. media talk about Iraqis' miseries only to remind the U.S. communities about their 'ethics'; ethics that U.S. societies no more believe in."
"The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that there are around 12 million refugees who need to be resettled all over the world, more than one-third of them are Iraqis," it said.
It quoted Arthur Dewey, the assistant secretary of state, as saying more than 17 million people around the world are in need of international assistance and live in environments in which they could be considered refugees.
"Dewey forgot, or pretends that he forgot, to mention Iraqis specifically," the paper said.
It criticized Dewey saying the United States takes more refugees than other countries.
"The real question is how true that is?" the editorial said.
It said the United States didn't behave humanely or keep its word to help Iraqis who worked with U.S. troops in Iraq.
"These people scarified and risked their lives working with the American forces, yet the latter didn't give them their simplest rights of finding a safe haven for them and their families," the paper said.
It compared the United States with Australian and Danish forces who secretly took Iraqis who worked with them along with their families to their countries to provide safe, better lives for them; Iraqis didn't get anything from the United States except announcements and promises, it said.
"Paul Rosenzweig, counselor and secretary for policy development, announced last September that the U.S. intends to take 1,700 Iraqi refugees, yet September passed, then October and they didn't keep their word," it said.
The Saudi-based Al Basaer Newspaper said Friday in an editorial titled "Evaluating the political process" that the political process under occupation is "one eyed" and can't walk on flat ground because it has only two options sorted by occupation forces.
In details, the paper said the first option was either to continue helping the invaders and legitimize all the disasters that have happened to Iraqis, or line up to support the jihadis who resist the occupiers.
"Giving the occupation legitimacy made them be the highest authority in Iraq," it said.
It said the Iraqi politicians are happy to get high positions as if "they are chessmen put on a board," being moved as the invaders desire. It blamed the United States for the unstable security situation in Iraq.
"The occupiers try to shut down any voice that calls for an end to the occupation by raiding their offices and arresting their leaders in addition to closing their newspapers that reveals the occupiers' crimes," it said.
It said the occupation forces say they have brought freedom and democracy to a country, but U.S. tanks wander Iraq's streets with red signs that say: "Be 100 meters away, this is a force authorized to shoot."
