Humanitarian disaster in Iraq

[shiva2999]

Great job boys.

Support the troops.

George Bush has good intentions.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070730/ap_on_re_mi_ea/britain_oxfam_iraq

NGOs report humanitarian crisis in Iraq

By THOMAS WAGNER, Associated Press Writer
Mon Jul 30, 6:27 AM ET

LONDON - About 8 million Iraqis — nearly a third of the population — need immediate emergency aid because of the humanitarian crisis caused by the war, relief agencies said Monday.

Those Iraqis are in urgent need of water, sanitation, food and shelter, said the report by Oxfam and the NGO Coordination Committee network in Iraq.

The report said 15 percent of Iraqis cannot regularly afford to eat, and 70 percent are without adequate water supplies, up from 50 percent in 2003. It also said 28 percent of children are malnourished, compared with 19 percent before the 2003 invasion.

"Basic services, ruined by years of war and sanctions, cannot meet the needs of the Iraqi people," said Jeremy Hobbs, the director of Oxfam International. "Millions of Iraqis have been forced to flee the violence, either to another part of Iraq or abroad. Many of those are living in dire poverty."

The report said more than 2 million people — mostly women and children — have been displaced within Iraq, and 2 million Iraqis have fled the country as refugees, mostly to neighboring Syria and Jordan.

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[ticatfan3]

You hate afghani's, why worry about iraqi's?

[billsfanone]

They should help instead of blowing each other up.

[sukie]

WTF? Isn't it Geldoff and Bono's job to deliver aide? Wy is this in the PRS?

[Meathead]

good thing theyre all terrorists

[micknaboz]

655,000: Iraqi deaths a Johns-Hopkins study attributed to the war nine months ago.

2770: Iraqi civilians killed in May 2007, according to government reports. (Actual figure unknown because the Iraqi government refuses to share its data with outside agencies that could verify totals.)

1.9 million: Estimated Iraqis displaced within the country.

2.35 million: Estimated Iraqi exiles outside the country in January 2007.

18,000: Iraqi doctors who have fled the country since March 2003.

???: Iraqis orphaned by the war – no reliable statistics.

25%: Iraqi children who are malnourished (May 2006).

130,000: U.S. troops taking part in the invasion at Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s insistence.

500,000: U.S. troops estimated to be necessary by generals who put together a prewar contingency plan.

$60-$95 billion: Total cost of Iraq war and aftermath calculated by Paul Wolfowitz in February 2003.

$600 billion: Money Congress has allocated for direct costs of the war and occupation so far.

$750 billion: Total the Cheney-Bush Administration has sought for keeping the occupation going through September 2008.

$140,000: Estimated cost per minute of the war and occupation in 2007.

$2 trillion: Total direct and indirect costs of war and occupation (through 2010) calculated by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Blimes in January 2006.

$9 billion: Taxpayer money that disappeared in Iraq.

$549.7 million: Value of unaccounted for spare parts shipped to contractors in 2004.

$1.4 billion: Overcharges by Halliburton.

6,000-10,000: Estimated number of U.S. troops whose injuries have included brain trauma.

30%: Estimated percentage of troops who develop serious mental problems within three or four months after returning from Iraq.

14: Journalists killed by U.S. forces in Iraq.

112: Total number of journalists killed in Iraq.

1-2 a day: Hours of electricity available to the average residential household in Baghdad. (Actual figure unknown since U.S. no longer reports the electricity figures for the city.)

5000: "Diehard" insurgents the Pentagon estimated to be fighting on July 28, 2003.

20-30,000: Insurgents the Pentagon estimated in October 2006.

70,000: Insurgents the Pentagon estimated in March 2007.

69%: Iraqis who say U.S. presence worsens security situation (polled in March 2007).

71%: Iraqis who want U.S. troops out within a year (polled in September 2006).

71%: Americans who want U.S. to withdraw troops by April 2008 (polled in July 2007).

52%: U.S. Senators who have voted to withdraw most troops by April 2008.

8%: Republican Senators who have voted to withdraw most troops by April 2008.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/7/29/165921/178

[Victor7]

Possible answers comming from the king of ignorance:

war is hell, its all part of the war on terror.

They wouldnt be in such suffering if only they did what they're told, we have the bigger guns

Better them than us !

Its not in America so I dont care !

They deserve it for harboring terrorists !

[ticatfan3]

If they went in full tilt and took them out early in the war and killed a few hundred civilians,this would be over. But trying to do it in a nice way only costs alot more civilian lives. Trying not to kill civilains causes more to be killed.

[г]

If they went in full tilt and took them out early in the war and killed a few hundred civilians,this would be over.

Translation: It's OK, they're just Brown People...

[shiva2999]

If they went in full tilt and took them out early in the war and killed a few hundred civilians,this would be over. But trying to do it in a nice way only costs alot more civilian lives. Trying not to kill civilains causes more to be killed.

Idiocy and murderous intentions gets people killed.

[ICRockets]

Possible answers comming from the king of ignorance:

war is hell, its all part of the war on terror.

They wouldnt be in such suffering if only they did what they're told, we have the bigger guns

Better them than us !

Its not in America so I dont care !

They deserve it for harboring terrorists !

Don't forget, it will all end with:

Life is good. :D