Huge Portion of Iraqi Population Displaced

Good Lord... CNN reported this morning that 2 million Iraqis have fled the country and are now considered refugees. 2 MILLION. Iraq has a population of about 26 million people; that means that approximately 7.5 percent of Iraq's total population is displaced. Does anyone else think that this is a HUGE number? Of those 2 million displaced, 700,000 are in Jordan, making up 10 percent of that country's total population - 10 PERCENT.

The United States is a country of about 300 million. 7.5 percent of our country's population is 22.5 million - 22.5 million Americans living in Canada, Mexico (if we could get past our own border agents), and Latin America. 9,333,334 Americans would be in Canada alone, which would be about a 30 percent increase in that country's population if the numbers were proportionally increased (relative to Jordan's refugee intake).

Nice work, W.