Sarah Jessica Parker, Matt Dillon Bring Attention To Iraqi Refugees

There's still a week before inauguration, and already celebrities are trickling into town, some for related do-gooder events. Sarah Jessica Parker and Matt Dillon were in Washington yesterday to bring attention to the plight of Iraqi refugees, especially those who worked for the Americans but were apparently unable to get help leaving Iraq even after they had become targets of violence. The stars hosted Refugees International's one-night showing of Betrayed, a play about three Iraqi translators who risked their lives to work at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad's Green Zone.

"I think there seems to be more concern about what we're going to do to get out of there and how we are going to get out of this mess that nobody is really thinking about the wreckage we are going to leave behind us," Dillon tells us. "It's a humanitarian crisis.

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[gakabani]

Lies, deception in the name of oil profits.

[gakabani]

There are 2.2 million Iraqis in Syria must of them in refugee camps near the border, Bush has made out of Iraq another Palestine. Bush is a criminal, do you hear that America?