Talk about a journalist’s fantasy woman!
Lara– if you’re out there– CALL ME!
“When we both covered the war between Israel and Hezbollah, I’d get to the scene of an attack, and invariably Lara would already be there. ‘What took you so long?’ she’d ask.” —Anderson Cooper
Branded as collaborators by insurgents, many Iraqis who helped the U.S. now face serious danger
(CBS) The refugee crisis in Iraq is among the biggest humanitarian emergencies in the world. Millions of Iraqis have fled the war, many marked for death because they worked for the United States. They were translators, office workers, many other things, but now the enemy has branded them as collaborators.
When that happened in Vietnam, the U.S. brought more than 100,000 refugees to the states. But today, the U.S. government, which was so desperate for Iraqi workers, is not so eager to help them now.
As correspondent Scott Pelley reports, one young American named Kirk Johnson has jumped into this breach. All he wanted to do was rescue one of his Iraqi co-workers. When he did, a thousand more pleaded for help and Johnson began “the list.”
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said.
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