UN warns of “very grave” problems in Iraq - Bush and his thugs are starving the Iraqis to death

[NNN0LHI]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080404/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestun_080404114856

(AFP)

4 April 2008

AMMAN - A top UN official warned on Friday of “very grave” humanitarian problems in Iraq, including a lack of food and the internal displacement of more than two million people.

“There are very grave humanitarian problems, the most serious is the internal displacement of the Iraqis... this is a phenomenon which we believe has slowed down significantly in recent months,” UN Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes told a news conference in Amman.

The UN refugee agency said on Tuesday that the number of internally displaced Iraqis had risen to more than 2.77 million people by the end of March, five years after the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.

Two million Iraqis have also fled to neighbouring Jordan and Syria, where social and health services are struggling with the influx.

Holmes, who is in Jordan on his way to Iraq, said basic services in many areas in Iraq “are still deteriorating.”

“For example there are four million people who do not have enough food, only 40 percent of the population have reliable access to safe drinking water and one third of people are cut off from essential health care, life saving medication and basic immunisation,” he said.

According to Holmes, between four and nine percent of children under five are suffering from acute malnutrition.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Iraqis don't need food. They have democracy and that's enough.

:sarcasm:

[laylah]

10. It is their own fault!

They should have only thrown flowers and left the chocolate for themselves :sarcasm:

[Mountainman]

2. Yeah, but Saddam was a very bad man, he gassed his own people!

[fascisthunter]

3. that would be "GENOCIDE"

[TheWatcher]

8. Ah but we dare not say it's name, because that would be an unfair comparison

To Hitler's regime.

:sarcasm:

[fascisthunter]

11. It's Too Bad So Many Have the Impression That Hitler Had a Monopoly on Genocide

Hopefully none of those people are ever victims of one themselves. It would be a shame to see one find out after it was too late. ;)

[chixydix]

4. They have the nerve to complain after we gave them purple fingers?

Wotta buncha whiners.




:silly:

[guitar man]

5. well then

I guess the Iraqis should get some ambition and pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

:sarcasm:

[KarenS]

6. "The UN needs to be disbanded."

:sarcasm:

[spanone]

7. does anyone in the world have the balls to stand up to bu$h*/chenee? don't think so

[Orwellian_Ghost]

9. War Crimes

[BeHereNow]

12. Just continuance of the Clinton sanctions- Madeline Albright thought it was "worth it..."

Apparently, the Clinton policy is also working for the BFEE!
BHN