Session #110 · 2007–09

Speech #1100051419

Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs recently said. "We are committed to honoring our moral debt to those Iraqis who have provided assistance to the U.S. military and embassy." Clearly. we owe these people a debt of gratitude. They have risked everything to help us out in Iraq and Afghanistan and the least we can do is help deliver them out of harms way. But I tell my colleagues. the magnitude of the broader refugee crisis in Iraq far exceeds anything this bill attempts to resolve. We need to address the wider refugee issue. which has forced over 4 million Iraqis from their homes. The gentleman from Oregon has legislation on this subject. and I think will be speaking to that broader issue. No one should take our efforts to do this now as a notion that that satisfies our obligation on something that we played a part in. creating the situation that led to this.
Keywords matched
refugee

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian

Speaker & context

Speaker
HOWARD BERMAN
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
CA
Gender
M
Date
2007-05-24
Speech ID
1100051419
Paragraph
#1
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