SINCE U.S. INVASION, HALF OF CHRISTIANS HAVE FLED IRAQ

"A new wave of Iraqi Christians has fled to northern Iraq or abroad amid a campaign of violence against them and growing fear that the country’s security forces are unable or, more ominously, unwilling to protect them... It threatens to reduce further what Archdeacon Emanuel Youkhana of the Assyrian Church of the East called “a community whose roots were in Iraq even before Christ.”... More than half of Iraq’s Christian community, estimated to number 800,000 to 1.4 million before the American-led invasion in 2003, have already left the country... The message is very clear: to pluck Iraqi Christians from the roots and force them out of the country..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/world/middleeast/13iraq.html?_r=2