We, the members of the Mandaean community in the United States of America and their friends, are asking our government to take the moral, legal and historic responsibility to save the Iraqi Mandaean refugees in Syria and Jordan. More than 90% of them fled Iraq for good. Our hope is to resettle them in America as a persecuted group in order to save the future culture, traditions, and faith of the Mandaean community. 

Without the help of our government, the Mandaean people, who are without a country, and protection cannot defend themselves are headed towards annihilation.

Mandaeans are considered the smallest and most vulnerable ethno-religious minority in Iraq and Iran. We number fewer than 60,000 people in the world, scattered around the globe as a result of our intervention in Iraq. We follow the teachings of John the Baptist and practice baptism in flowing water as our central ritual. Our teachings expressly forbid us from carrying weapons, even for self-defense. Instead, the Ginza Raba, the chief Mandaean holy book, teaches us to oppose injustice bravely with words and knowledge, not iron. We therefore live our lives solely by peaceful means.

President Obama has led the process to bring the Iraq war to a responsible end, placing responsibility for Iraqi security in the hands of Iraqis. Our combat troops -- whose valor, courage, and self-sacrifice made possible the progress we've made -- came home from Iraq by the end of 2011.

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The Obama administration's recently proposed fuel efficiency and global warming emissions standards for vehicles sold between 2017 and 2025 would go a long way to ending our dangerous dependence on foreign oil and combating climate change. They would save consumers billions of dollars at the gas pump, prevent millions of tons of global warming emissions and save as much oil in 2030 as we currently import from Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

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