More beaurocratic garbage

More bureaucratic nonsense is keeping Iraqi translators who helped American troops from coming to the United States. Faced with threats of rape, torture, and death, many of the brave Iraqi's who worked alongside American troops in Iraq to escape to the United States. Whatever we can do to help these people out, we need to do. If these individuals were able to help doing translating work for the American soldiers and marines in Iraq, perhaps they can help out with translation work for the United States government here. After all, we can definitely use it.

Allies Left Behind? Iraqis Who Helped U.S. Feel 'Betrayed,' Marked for Death
ABC News

Kirk Johnson is the keeper of what he calls the saddest list in the world -- a list of Iraqis who worked for the United States but are now marked for death and on the run.

Johnson says that the U.S. effort in Iraq "would not have functioned without these people. And they risk their lives every single day to come through checkpoints that are routinely mortared and shelled and hit by suicide bombers and snipers just to come and help us -- because they believe in America enough to help us rebuild their country."

Many of these Iraqis fled their country after they got letters that describe them as "enemies of God," as well as blunt threats: "We will cut off your heads."

All are now desperate to come to the United States, and Kirk Johnson is the man they are turning to.

"This is urgent," he says. "This isn't, 'Let's have a meeting once a month to figure out how we are going to address the issue.' This is, 'Let's get them on a plane to save them because they need our help now.'"