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ABC's Bob Woodruff filed his second A Closer Look into refugees caused by the Iraq War. Yesterday, United Nations' World Refugee Day, he contrasted the policies of Syria and Jordan to the two-million-strong exodus. Now Woodruff looks at the global response to the Middle East's largest refugee crisis "since 1948 when the war over Israel's independence scattered Palestinians across the region." This year, the UN humanitarian fundraising target for displaced Iraqis is just $60m, Woodruff noted, and the United States has issued only 70 asylum visas. Woodruff repeated the rap on the Bush Administration: "To accept refugees would be a tacit admission of failure in Iraq." And sure enough the State Department insists that failure has indeed not occurred: "We are still working very hard trying to create a democracy and a peaceful, stable Iraq," Assistant Secretary Ellen Sauerbrey insisted.
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