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10/22/2007: "Lack of intermarriage in Iraq war confuses mass media"

What's striking about this conflict is not that Americans and Iraqis have met on the battlefield and fallen in love and married. It's that so few have.

State Department records show that after more than four years of occupation, only about 2,400 visas have been granted to Iraqi spouses and fiancées. Many of those may be marriages to Iraqi-Americans. (Neither the State Department nor the Pentagon breaks down the figures in detail.)

[ Ethnic consciousness is at an all-time high as America fragments. ]

http://www.newsweek.com/id/43354