One in every six Iraqis is an orphan

[sabra]

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news/2010-09-13/kurd.htm

Iraq: a country of orphans

One in every six Iraqis is an orphan. That is the toll Iraqi children are paying in a country which is supposedly under the occupation and protection of the world’s only superpower.

Not all the orphans are the result of the violence that swept the country in the aftermath of the 2003-U.S. invasion.

But the invasion has caused untold miseries for Iraqis, surpassing those inflicted on them by their former tormentors, the clique that ruled Iraq under Saddam Hussein.

There were unconfirmed reports that Iraq has turned into a country of orphans. But the exact figure only became a reality recently, when the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs made public its own statistics.

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If we consider the numbers of Iraqi orphans in terms of U.S. population of 308 million, the five million Iraqi orphans would be the equivalent of nearly 50 million U.S. orphans. Imagine major U.S. cities such as New York, L.A., Chicago, Houston, Phoenix and Philadelphia all populated completely by orphans.

There are so many stories in Iraq which its occupiers and rulers, and unfortunately the international media, would like to keep under wraps.

But to give lip service to this massive number of orphans, more than 16 percent of Iraqi population, and nearly half its children, is really devastating to hear.

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. jeesus. Unfathomable.

This a good one to keep kicked.

[Ellipsis]

2. That's a staggering statistic.

Population Stats.


http://www.prb.org/Countries/Iraq.aspx

[Fumesucker]

3. Mission Accomplished!!

They hate us for our freedom to make them orphans..

[Smarmie Doofus]

4. Kick nt

[Hannah Bell]

5. kr

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. USA! USA! USA!

:patriot: :puke:

[Mimosa]

7. And they're going to grow up loving the US for freeing them from their parents. n/t

[Ramulux]

8. Come on, they deserved it

What were they doing living in Iraq if they didn't want America to come in and make them orphans? Also, they may not have parents, running water, electricity, schools, or telephone lines but at least they aren't living under Saddam, sounds like a pretty fair trade-off.

[Smarmie Doofus]

9. Kick nt

[Smarmie Doofus]

10. One more kick for the night crew. nt

[spanone]

11. hear that bu$h* & cheney?

[slipslidingaway]

12. knr nt

[slipslidingaway]

13. kick n/t