[crathke]

I've wondered the same thing myself.

I seem to recall hearing something similar about the children who were orphaned in Afghanistan and the response then was twofold--that an adoption program would take quite some time to set up (I guess it's not on the list of priorities when setting up a new government) and, too, there may be "issues" because so many of the children would be Muslim and so many adopting families are....well, not Muslim. (I may be totally off base on that part and I certainly don't mean to offend anyone).

If you feel very strongly about adopting in Iraq, my advice would be to just keep trolling these boards and the internet in general. Or contact some of the larger agencies and see what they have to say?