Bush Creates Humanitarian Crisis in Middle East

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_sherwood_070729_bush_creates_humanit.htm

If George Bush were to fall to his knees and weep bitter tears of penance for the rest of his life over the ruin and suffering he has visited upon the people of Iraq, he would not live long enough to expatiate his crimes, even if he lived forever.

Not only have more than 600,000 Iraqis been slaughtered by the illegal war he has inflicted upon that nation, but his invasion has so corrupted its polity, so devastated its infrastructure, so corroded the opportunity for leading an ordinary, peaceful life, that Iraq’s people are unquestionably worse off under the chaotic “democracy” Mr. Bush has imposed upon them than they ever were under the cruel tyranny of Saddam Hussein. Yes, George Bush is probably the only man on the planet who could make Saddam Hussein look good.

Today, July 30th, Oxfam and the NGO Coordination Committee in Iraq(NCCI) will hold a news conference in the Hyatt Amman Hotel in Jordan to issue a report detailing how the violence in Iraq “is overshadowing a humanitarian crisis,” with one-third of a nation, some eight million souls, “in need of emergency aid.” Here’s what their report will say:

# Two million Iraqis have fled their homeland, becoming refugees, mainly in Syria and Jordan. In short, they have voted with their feet to get out, as they never did under Hussein, their departure speaking volumes about which tyrant they preferred to live under.

# More than two million people, “mostly women and children,” have been displaced inside Iraq. (This figure may not include the imprisoned 60,000 Iraqi men scooped up in dragnet arrests by U.S. forces who were almost universally innocent of any crimes but who have been labeled “terrorists” to justify the White House war.)

# Seventy percent of Iraqis are without adequate water supplies, compared to 50 percent in 2003, the year Mr. Bush, who knew better than the impartial UN inspectors, took it upon himself to destroy Hussein’s WMD that threatened to incinerate America.

[Junkdrawer]

1. Turning Iraq into a sparsely-populated, oil rich country like Saudi Arabia...

Incompetence

-or-

Ghoulish Plan

You decide.

[napi21]

2. A similar story was told on Bill Moyers Journal which aired here today.

It IS the US occupation that is causing the problems, and creating the insurgence! I can only hope our congress critters OF BOTH PARTIES get the message!

[Olney Blue]

3. Unfortunately, remorse will never be felt by *.