Iraqi Kurdistan's Plea to World: Help Us

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Source: IraqSlogger


Health Minister Appeals for Drugs, Supplies to Provide Urgent Medical Care

The government of Iraqi Kurdistan has issued a global plea for medical supplies to help ensure patients there receive required treatment.

Many hospitals in Iraqi Kurdistan have few, if any, drugs and other medical supplies, with the health minister in Iraqi Kurdistan blaming the war in other parts of Iraq for the dire shortage of supplies in Kurd-controlled northern Iraq.

A rare and critically-needed shipment of medical supplies from Baghdad to northern Iraq recently was intercepted and stolen by insurgents, and two of the convoy drivers were beheaded.

After that episode, the U.S.-based security contractor Paratus Worldwide, which is active in northern Iraq, volunteered to transport, protect, and distribute medical supplies to and within Kurdistan for no cost.

Paratus was also inspired to get involved because one of its Iraqi employees was recently wounded and was unable to receive any semblance of acceptable medical care, leaving him blind in both eyes.



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[GainesT1958]

1. They desperately need that, and...

Independence from the rest of Iraq.

They'd be our second-biggest ally in the Middle East..with plenty of oil. We could probably locate bases there if we wanted to. A national "right-of-return" policy could placate our NATO ally Turkey by allowing Kurds there to leave and return to their homeland...and their own nation. They could also return from Iran, and leave persecution there behind. Plenty of rich soil and agricultural land, and hydroelectric power from dams on the upper Tigris and Euphrates. The potential for strong economic growth and expansion.

I may not be for him for president next year--and he voted the wrong way on the IWR--but Joe Biden's been right on this issue for four years.

B-)

[still_one]

3. and yet many support the PKK who send bombers into Turkey

Perhaps we should sit this one out, as far as independence. Medical aid, abosolutely, and while we are at in, Darfur, and muchs of Africa

[wordpix]

2. WTF happened to all the billions we've sent to Iraq including the Kurds?

:wtf: We've spent something like $1.2 trillion on this dangerous moneypit in Iraq and we can't send the Kurds some medical supplies? BushCo loves to steal it ALL, don't they?

[IndianaGreen]

5. The money ended up in the pocket of war profiteers

Did the Kurds delude themselves into thinking that this war was about them?

[IndianaGreen]

4. The Kurds wanted the US to invade Iraq, take it up with their new masters!

I am sure that the American viceroy in Baghdad will be as responsive to their needs as the poor Jay Garner was before he got canned by the neocons who preferred Paul Bremer.

[LynnTheDem]

7. No they didn't; not even the Kurds supported bush's illegal invasion.

But the US "media" never reported on that little fact. Among many such little facts.

Kurds not happy with US invasion plans for Iraq

Washington's goal of a "regime change" in Baghdad is running into strong reservations from Iraqi Kurdish leaders who would be crucial allies in any military campaign.

American officials had been told bluntly that the Kurds would oppose any attempt to topple Mr. Hussein by a coup.
http://nucnews.net/nucnews/2002nn/0207nn/020708nn.htm#326

Kurdish leader and current Iraqi president Talabani;

In our opinion, invasion is a different issue. We are against the concept of the invasion scenario.
http://www.puk.org/web/htm/news/knwsline/nws/interv.htm

[burrowowl]

6. And the U$ has not helped all Irakis

1 in 8 children under 5 are DEAD and many dying!
The U$ has killed the Iraki infrastruture for caring for children, doctors and nurses fleeeing if they can.
The U$ hates health care.