Iraq's new crisis: Moms, dads abandoning kids

Source: CNN

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The head of Iraq's main humanitarian group said an 18-year-old approached him with a baby suffering from leukemia. The desperate mother said she'd do "anything" for treatment for her child -- and then offered herself up for sex.

Said Ismail Hakki breaks down in tears as he recalls that story. Leukemia can be treatable to a degree in much of the world, but not in Iraq. The baby died two months later.

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The plight of Iraq's children is nearing epidemic proportions, he said, with mothers and fathers abandoning their children "because they're becoming a liability." The parents don't do it out of convenience, they do it out of desperation.

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Hakki says Red Crescent has the monumental task of treating and feeding more than 1.6 million children under the age of 12 who have become homeless in their own country. That's roughly 70 percent of the estimated 2.3 million Iraqis who are homeless inside Iraq

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/09/iraq.children/index.html

* is unleashing his hate on everyone.

his policies are killing children and their families.

angers up my blood real nice.

Bush: If I Were Iraqi, I’d Be Saying, ‘God, I Love Freedom’

This afternoon, President Bush held a joint press conference with French President Nicholas Sarkozy. A reporter asked Bush where he stood “on Iraq and your domestic debate on Iraq,” and whether he had a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops. In response, Bush insisted that “freedom’s happening” and Iraq isn’t in a “quagmire”:

I don’t — you know quagmire is an interesting word. If you lived in Iraq and had lived under a tyranny, you’d be saying: God, I love freedom, because that’s what’s happened.

And there are killers and radicals and murderers who kill the innocent to stop the advance of freedom. But freedom’s happening in Iraq. And we’re making progress.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/07/bush-iraq-freedom/


:grr:

been drinking but trying oh so hard to sound as though he hadn't been.

Check out this clip -- it's a little longer and includes the 'intro'. Bush is very....gregarious, shall we say?

I may be reading into this unfairly, but I don't care because it's Bush.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/11/08/bush-if-you-lived-in-iraq-youd-be-saying-god-i-love-freedom/

And have him explain at what point did Saddam being in charge cause this to happen?

The Bush family is full of traitors, collaborators, cowards, war criminals, and racists!!!!!

the Bush Crime Family

'but saddam was so terrible'.

Yeah, the fundies & freepers really stand behind that "sanctity of life" meme of theirs don't they?

:cry:

That in and of itself is rather unusual -- at least in places that haven't been carpeted with depleted uranium and who knows what chemical agents. :(

That's not permissible to think.

We are responsible.

to these people, at the lives we are forcing them to lead'. Because make no mistake, the casualty rate for Iraqi's is around 90% if you consider a 'casualty' to be a person who, even if alive and breathing, has basically lost their lives to this 'war' on terra. We have caused heartbreak and heartache that will be felt for generations. And it will fester into bitterness, anger, and thoughts of revenge in those who feel that they have nothing left to live for, nothing to hold on to, and nothing left to lose. We are keeping them prisoner in their own country. That is after we destroyed, totally bombed into oblivion, one of the most advanced and beautiful cities in the Middle East. Baghdad, the city of majesty, mystery, culture, learning. People forget, this area is one of the original centers where what we called 'a civilized society' was first developed. And we took it back to the Stone Age. We not only took their wifes, husbands, children, parents and friends from them. We took their history too. And strangely enough, I think that is one of the worst things we've done to them. They can lay claim to thousands of years of learning and history and what happens? A 200+ year old country being run by greedy, crooked, horrible old white men (no racist shit intended, but just take a look at the PNAC) who think THEY should be able to determine the world's fate and in the meantime lay their once proud and beautiful country to waste.

And for that they will hate us forever.

the front page of USA Today runs this story...

"Do they want to bring back Saddam Hussein, these critics?" the elder Bush told USA TODAY in a rare interview. "Do they want to go back to the status quo ante? I don't know what they are talking about here. Do they think life would be better in the Middle East if Saddam were still there?"


http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-11-08-1a-bush_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

And yes, you fucking idiot, as bad as it was, it WAS better under Saddam.
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Not so much if you were Shiite. And if you were Kurdish, well...

I have children and I would do anything to ensure their safety and well being. This story breaks my heart.

Or they'll being trying to remove the semen stains from the Oval Office ceiling for years.

You guys are just so totally pro-life.

:puke:

If you donate, do you get put on a watch list? Will the data miners think you support the terra-ists?

happening and maybe even do the same to Iran. If this is at the top of peoples minds, I don't know how they could vote for any candidate that shows ANY signs that they will continue this nonsense. Maybe people will vote with their conscience in the primaries, we will see.

"...more than 1.6 million children under the age of 12 who have become homeless in their own country. That's roughly 70 percent of the estimated 2.3 million Iraqis who are homeless inside Iraq."

fiddling on Iraq-how dare they show their faces

People balk when I call this administration, Nazis, because the haven't exterminated 6 million people. (yet) Iraqi's will be begging for forced sterilization so they won't be bearing depleted uranium freaks. Oh, well, at least they have a 'Democracy' to die in. I hate cheneybush so much I could, wish on them what they have done to others.

handl this problem.

Care. Seems to be the same here in America.