Despite the shrill of the idiots, MM, rice, bush, cheney, et al. the Iraqi's are not seeing life and democracy as well as those would have us believe.
*655,000 dead Iraqi's
*Morgues and cities with only a very few hours of power per day.
*Schools and homes bombed
*Civil war
*Fear
Funny how a handful of Americans believe this is a just war. They think so in the name of fear. What would this same handful think if they were an Iraqi today?
Iraq faces displacement crisis
Around one in ten Iraqis could be internally displaced by the end of 2007 as the security situation deteriorates, the International Office for Migration has said.
The agency said one million more people in Iraq could be forced to flee their homes by the end of the year, on top of the 1.4 million people already displaced by the end of 2006.
Many displaced persons live in makeshift houses without electricity or sanitation, the Geneva-based organisation said.
The group said that donors were not responding to its appeals for funds to help the needy.
Oh, how they must love their new found democracy! Yes, we Americans, with flowers thrown at our feet, are their true heros!
Rafiq Tschannen, IOM's chief of mission in Iraq, said: "The needs are enormous. Emergency supplies such as shelter and food are needed urgently for these people who are suffering both physically and psychologically."
"Those who are internally displaced are largely people who don't have the financial resources to leave the country," he added.
This can't be true. Why would they want to leave Iraq? Didn't Saddam swing? Aren't they free?
In the last three weeks alone, almost 18,000 people have been displaced in the 15 central and southern governorates of Iraq, taking the overall number of displaced people from these regions to 290,000 since February 2006, the IOM said.
A further 84,000 people have been reported internally displaced in Iraq's three northern governorates over the same period, the group said.
How can a self-proclaimed Christian, such as the neocons, see this and feel nothing? What have the Iraqi people done to deserve this? Where are those WMD's? And where in the hell is OBL?! Unfortunately, and more importantly, where are the hearts of all Americans?
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I know it's a cheap shot. But put a rifle in the hands of the supporters of the Iraq war and tell them to lead us to victory.
I am impressed, what ever it's worth to you, how you have capacity to feel for those whom are not Americans.
Hunger, thirst, misery, sickness, hopelessnes, fear etc. are felt exactly the same regardless to whether the victim is one of "us" or "them". This sinister ploy by the leaders seperating us to the different groups has been around as long back as our memory reaches. Wonder of it all is that, after thousands of years, it's still with us and supported, as you pointed out, by the group of people, the Christian right, which should be the last to do so. Go figure!
Funny, isn't it pekka, a liberal can feel for all people, a neocon cannot.
ziem, you might want to read and look at the maps in this post before making any generalizations involving red and blue states. The short version: there's pretty much no such thing as a red state or a blue state, outside the fevered imagination of the mainstream media. States are all purple. There may be a correlation between education and liberal politics that transcends geography; I don't know.
(BTW, my degree is from Rice University, a rather highfalutin' institution located in a very red state. I know; anecdotal evidence means nothing, but...)
(I hope you're having a safe trip!)
Oops. I intended that comment for the Red/Blue post. Sorry.
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