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 Red Cross: Iraqis Face ‘Unbearable and Unacceptable’ SufferingPosted on Apr 11, 2007A new report from the Red Cross says living conditions in Iraq, from healthcare to general safety, continue to worsen. One woman interviewed by the ICRC said it would be helpful if someone removed the bodies piling up in front of her house so her children wouldn’t have to look at them on the way to school. In another section, a humanitarian worker described witnessing a 4-year-old asking his decapitated mother to explain what had happened to her. They had been shopping when a bomb exploded.
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By Dashamu, April 11, 2007 at 3:02 pm #
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If the military solution is continuing to worsen the situation in Iraq, maybe it is time to reinforce a humanitarian aid to bring peace to the world. Instead spending $522 billion on U.S. military budget and wasting our precious lives by sending more troops, we can use the money to save so many lives by providing food, water access and sanitation. According to The Borgen Project, it only costs $19 billion to eliminate global starvation and nutrition. I hope our next political leader will make a commitment to the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals to stop the global poverty.
Report thisBy trantieungoc, April 11, 2007 at 11:38 am #
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But those who have created such situation in Iraq are still sleeping in their ivory mansion with all phantom glory !
Report thisBy dale Headley, April 11, 2007 at 11:18 am #
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Why should the Bush Administration give a damn about the wimpy, bleeding heart, lefties of the Red Cross? Their interference in the suffering and dying of irrelevant civilians contributes nothing to winning The Bush War. And after all, if Bush allows such unmanly emotions as sympathy for women and children who don’t vote Republican to impede his road to conquest, those very same Iraqis that the Red Cross saved will swim acoss the ocean carrying AK-47s in their teeth and slaughter Americans in their beds. Won’t they?
Report thisBy Bukko in Australia, April 11, 2007 at 7:21 am #
What the U.S. has done is a form of genocide that there’s not yet a word for. What do you call destroying an entire nation? Not just a particular religion or ethnic group, but wrecking the lives of every person living in a country? More than half a million dead out of a population of 25 million, more than a million who left the country and at least 2 million who had to flee to other parts of Iraq. All these peoples’ lives have been overturned just because they lived in a stretch of land designated as “Iraq.”
Most of the killing has been by other Iraqis, but the U.S. set it off. If you fly an airplane into a building and people die when it catches fire and collapses, you can’t blame the fall for killing them. The fault lies with those who set it in motion. It’s even worse than what Saddam Hussein did, and he was pure evil. So that makes George Bush evil squared.
What will it take for the brain-dead 30% of America who still support the monster to see the evil? Mass starvation in Iraq? A death toll that exceeds the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust? Nah, the followers of the Cheney Death Cult will never get it. And the leader of the cult will never care.
When the history books are written about this episode, if there’s any civilisation left on the planet capable of publishing books, America’s action will go alongside the killing fields of Cambodia or Stalin’s liquidation of the kulaks; and it’s working its way up to Hitler’s crimes against humanity and Mao’s mass starvation campaigns.
Report thisBy Steve Hammons, April 11, 2007 at 6:25 am #
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To help resolve the Iraq situation and help end the terrible suffering, “soft power” of diplomacy, information operations and constructive psychological operations is needed.
The “hard power” of a surge in troops and more bullets and bombs will have limits in effectiveness and may even make the situation worse and create more bloodshed.
Advanced and unconventional soft power methods should be considered to help improve the situation. Ideas on some of these are examined in:
“Unconventional Human Intelligence Support: Navy SEAL’s report”
PopulistAmerica.com
January 7, 2007
http://www.populistamerica.com/unconventional_human_in telligence_support
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“Eastwood, Spielberg: One more Iwo Jima film”
PopulistAmerica.com
April 4, 2007
http://www.populistamerica.com/eastwood_spielberg_one_ more_iwo_jima_film
Report thisBy John S. Borowski, April 11, 2007 at 5:12 am #
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To find out if you are a terrorist go take an airplane ride. If you are denied a ticket, it indicates you are a terrorist (probably participated in a peace march or something equivalent). When our country changes from a covert dictatorship to an overt dictatorship, you are headed for a Guantanamo like torture chamber.
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