Humanitarian Crisis
According to a survey compiled in Iraq by two major relief agencies, eight million Iraqis or one third of the population have no water, sanitation, food or shelter and need emergency aid. The report says the violence in Iraq is masking a humanitarian crisis that has worsened since the U.S. invasion.
Specific findings in the report state that 70 percent of Iraqis lack access to adequate water supplies. Ninety percent of the country’s hospitals lack basic medical and surgical supplies. Forty-three percent of Iraqis live in absolute poverty. That’s defined as less than $1 a day. More than half of them don’t have a job. Child malnutrition rates are at 28 percent, up from 19 percent before the U.S. invasion. There are two million internally displaced people, many of them with no access to food. Another two million are refugees that have gone to other countries.
Two million Iraqis are roaming around because of the ethnic cleansing that has taken place. The Shiites have left the Sunni neighborhoods, and Sunni have left the Shiite neighborhoods, because it's simply too dangerous.
A lot of people left the country of their own volition. Many of the intellectuals, the college professors doctors, scientists, those who had the means to get out left a long time ago. The brain drain on that country has been enormous as a result. There’s nobody left in that country except people living at or below the poverty line, refugees, fighters, soldiers and terrorists.
This report suggests that Iraq’s government, along with coalition nations, U.N. agencies and international donors, can and must do a lot more to attack this problem. However, don’t expect any immediate response from members of the Iraqi government, because they’re on a month long summer recess.
What else is left? The oil. “Mission accomplished”, all you gangsters for capitalism.
Specific findings in the report state that 70 percent of Iraqis lack access to adequate water supplies. Ninety percent of the country’s hospitals lack basic medical and surgical supplies. Forty-three percent of Iraqis live in absolute poverty. That’s defined as less than $1 a day. More than half of them don’t have a job. Child malnutrition rates are at 28 percent, up from 19 percent before the U.S. invasion. There are two million internally displaced people, many of them with no access to food. Another two million are refugees that have gone to other countries.
Two million Iraqis are roaming around because of the ethnic cleansing that has taken place. The Shiites have left the Sunni neighborhoods, and Sunni have left the Shiite neighborhoods, because it's simply too dangerous.
A lot of people left the country of their own volition. Many of the intellectuals, the college professors doctors, scientists, those who had the means to get out left a long time ago. The brain drain on that country has been enormous as a result. There’s nobody left in that country except people living at or below the poverty line, refugees, fighters, soldiers and terrorists.
This report suggests that Iraq’s government, along with coalition nations, U.N. agencies and international donors, can and must do a lot more to attack this problem. However, don’t expect any immediate response from members of the Iraqi government, because they’re on a month long summer recess.
What else is left? The oil. “Mission accomplished”, all you gangsters for capitalism.
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