Five years after invasion, one in five Iraqis displaced.
By on Mar 18th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Five years after invasion, one in five Iraqis displaced.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said today that “nearly one in five of Iraq’s population before the U.S.-led invasion” are either “internally displaced people or refugees in other countries.” Only one percent of those have returned to their homes, which were often “occupied by other people — normally from another Muslim religious group — or had been destroyed.” An IOM spokesperson said, “There is very little light at the end of the tunnel in Iraq’s humanitarian crisis.”
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So that’s what Dick means when he says there’s still a lot of work to be done,
March 18th, 2008 at 12:08 pmThemanoncecared Says:
March 18th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I guess we should have just let Saddam Hussein Gas them all!
the good ol’ USofA is far more efficient!
March 18th, 2008 at 12:12 pmgood_golly Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
There have undoubtedly been phenomelal improvements, but there is obviously still work to be done.
(conservative talking points – so bland they work anywhere!)
March 18th, 2008 at 12:12 pmNo, we should not have given the gas to Saddam in th first place.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:12 pmAnd many of the people who attempted to return to their homes did so only because they were kicked out of where they were and had no other place to go. It’s not that they returned because things had returned to being hunky-dory.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:13 pmThemanoncecared Says:
I guess we should have just let Saddam Hussein Gas them all!
There’s 4 million displaced, and between 150,000 to 1,000,000 dead as a result of our invasion(that’s a lot more than saddam killed with his gas). And nearly that number again died under our sanctions. We aren’t exactly doing these people any favors are we. Oh yeah, we also sold him the gas that he used to gas his people.
With friends like us who needs enemies?
March 18th, 2008 at 12:14 pmThemanoncecared Says:
The moral bankruptcy of the freaks who continue to support this debacle is sickening.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:16 pmhttp://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/
He was our man.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:17 pmThemanoncecared Says:
March 18th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I guess we should have just let Saddam Hussein Gas them all!
“Let”? Don’t you mean “help?” We gave Bechtel the contract to build Iraq’s chemical weapons plants in the 1980s, remember?
March 18th, 2008 at 12:19 pmhussein toasterhead:
Trolls remember nothing. Nor can they learn anything new. It’s very convenient for the GOP.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:20 pmThemanoncecared Says:
March 18th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
the russians?!
do you work for newsmax?
March 18th, 2008 at 12:26 pmThemanoncecared Says:
March 18th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Saddam got gas from the Russians !
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/31/world/main534798.shtml
“the administrations of President Reagan and the first President Bush both authorized providing Iraq with intelligence and logistical support, and okayed the sale, of dual use items — those with military and civilian applications — that included chemicals and germs, even anthrax and bubonic plague.“
Keep living in denial.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:29 pm“The-man-who-finally-fixed-his-misspelled-handle” only knows it for a fact if Steve Doocy, Mr. Golly, or the President said it. Otherwise, it’s probably “moonbat propaganda”, and he knows the drill: close the eyes, cover the ears, and repeat “LA-LA-LA-LA-LA” really loud until the “offensive message” has stopped.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:31 pmDick Cheney: 9-11’s parent.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:31 pmNow that the cupboard-is-bare-stearns gets a bazillion dollar bailout, can the displacement of foreclosed-on Americans be far behind?
March 18th, 2008 at 12:31 pmFacts mean nothing!!!
Talking Points uber alles!!!
Mein Furher, I can walk!!!
March 18th, 2008 at 12:33 pmThemanoncecared Says:
March 18th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Saddam got gas from the Russians !
Yah, probably from all the borscht and pirozhki.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:34 pmBush solution: Send them FEMA Poison Trailers, the Pride of New Orleans Residents, formaldehyde is a preservative (in BushSpeak) so it will work out so much the better for them, they were poor anyway.
Those poor people, being subjected to the destruction that follow the War Criminal Bush where ever he goes.
Bush/Cheney/NeoCons
Hague Trials ‘09
Themanwhocared
March 18th, 2008 at 12:37 pmNight Grammar School ‘08
>I guess we should have just let
> Saddam Hussein Gas them all!
Spare me your selective outrage.
a) we helped him gas over half of them
b) less people died when he was gassing people
c) why is killing people with bombs any more humane or reasonable than doing it with gas?
d) do you think we should act against all similar atrocities in other parts of the world?
e) how much of our tax money should we spend playing sheriff of the world?
f) would you support saddam hussien gassing people if you knew those people would ally themselves with iran to form a powerful shia crescent across the middleeast and ally themselves with the democratically elected palestinian government run by Hamas?
March 18th, 2008 at 12:39 pm>so when did we give them him the mustard gas?
http://www.doublespeakshow.com/images/2006/11/saddam_Rumsfeld.jpg
you think they were sealing a deal to sell saddam girlscout cookies? tell me, if it turns out we did sell him WMD or the chemical components to make it, knowing what he would do with it, how would that affect your thoughts about this?
March 18th, 2008 at 12:42 pmIf Saddam was so awful, why was Rumsfeld shaking his hand? Could it be we care nothing about the Iraqi people, but instead value the flow of oil?
March 18th, 2008 at 12:46 pmso when did we give them him the mustard gas?
“Give”? Dick and Lil Shrub don’t even recognize that word exists.
Try “sold”.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:46 pmIf Saddam was so awful, why was Rumsfeld shaking his hand?
The U.S. sold, or traded weapons and/or technology with the “nod” that Saddam would open his economy (read: oil industry) to U.S. interests.
When he didn’t, he got himself blowed all up and stuff.
And we wonder why the Mid East (and a majority of the World) hates us.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:50 pmIf our govt gives a rat’s a$$ about the Iraqi people, why haven’t they shown it?
March 18th, 2008 at 12:50 pmThemanoncecared Says:
March 18th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
if it comes out that our Govt just wanted to kill people for the hell of it. Then yes I be upset and outraged!
Have you been asleep for the past five years?
March 18th, 2008 at 12:51 pmSeriously, our Government and it’s “secrets” are nothing more than a bloated form of the Mafia.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:51 pmDick and Lil Bush NEW Saddam had WMD’s at one time because THEY CAME FROM THE U.S!!!!!
March 18th, 2008 at 12:53 pmDieNowForPeace Says:
March 18th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
The U.S. sold, or traded weapons and/or technology with the “nod” that Saddam would open his economy (read: oil industry) to U.S. interests.
Not to mention that at the same time we were also selling arms to Iraq’s (and our) enemy Iran, through our BFF Israel.
The strategy makes sense, of course. If you’re arming both sides in a war, you’re guaranteed to win…
March 18th, 2008 at 12:53 pmWould’ve been, much, much more difficult to sell the notion of “Saddam the bad guy” if the majority of American’s new the awful truth: that the U.S. was responsible for most of Saddam’s so-called “atrocities”.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:55 pmNow we have helped arm many sides within Iraq.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:56 pmso when did we give them him the mustard gas?
The Bush lickspittle cultists moan about “moral relativism”, all the while defending Bush by saying that he isn’t as bad as Saddam. “Just a little better than Saddam is good enough for me!” Talk about lowering the bar.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:57 pm“So this war was started because the American Govt just love’s to kill people.”
Keep lowering the bar, freak. You’re looking real good right now.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:58 pmSo this war was started because the American Govt just love’s to kill people.
We got us one of them “couldn’t find their a$$hole with a map and a flashlight” types here.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:58 pmSo this war was started because the American Govt just love’s to kill people.
Translation: “Four million displaced, one million dead, chaos in the streets, that’s just fine with me!”
Pathetic, disgusting, grasping sicko.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:59 pmThe US govt could care less about casualties on either side except when it becomes a PR problem.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:59 pmMethinks neoturd bootlickers need a Dictionary.
To look up things like “insurgent”, “guerilla war” and “freedom fighters”.
March 18th, 2008 at 1:00 pmThemanoncecared Says:
March 18th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
This latest troll has proven far less interesting than even Rotgut Gin. I’d go so far as to say that this once-a-stone-pile troll is the most boring we’ve ever seen here at TP.
March 18th, 2008 at 1:00 pm“So this war was started because the American Govt just love’s to kill people.”
The American Government wants what it wants and if it doesn’t get what it wants, then it has no problem killing people to get what it wants.
March 18th, 2008 at 1:00 pmVerbalKint Says:
March 18th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
The Bush lickspittle cultists moan about “moral relativism”, all the while defending Bush by saying that he isn’t as bad as Saddam. “Just a little better than Saddam is good enough for me!” Talk about lowering the bar.
Verbal, the GOOP has made an art form of “lowering the bar” these last seven years. It must be said to have been a sound strategy to enhance their electoral prospects. In fact, it may have been the only strategy open to them.
March 18th, 2008 at 1:02 pmDieNowForPeace Says:
March 18th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
We got us one of them “couldn’t find their a$$hole with a map and a flashlight” types here.
Absolutely. There’s no way this one make the full 10 cents per post.
March 18th, 2008 at 1:04 pmThemanoncecared Says:
March 18th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
So this war was started because the American Govt just love’s to kill people.
give it up!
March 18th, 2008 at 1:23 pmBut doesn’t this mean that the surge is working?
March 18th, 2008 at 1:25 pmThank you, Muqtada.
And 7 in 10 want us to get the hell out.
March 18th, 2008 at 1:33 pmThemanoncecared Says:
March 18th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
So this war was started because the American Govt just love’s to kill people.
Yup. And it’s proven this time and time again since 1953. If there’s a profit motive involved, it doesn’t matter how many foreign people have to die.
March 18th, 2008 at 1:41 pmWhy do trolls require constant education? We’ve been over this umpteen times regarding Saddam and the relationship the US had with him in the 80’s.
The US has a habit of seeing enemies of our enemies as friends, in the middle east. These relationships never last, and end up in a bitter break up. That’s what happened with Saddam. We still play this game to this day.
March 18th, 2008 at 1:44 pmSouthern Man Says:
March 18th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
There was nothing to be worried about in Iraq. They were doing just fine. What happend at Abu Ghrab was far worse than anything Sadam had done, right?
Yes. Yes, it was. Abu Ghraib was far worse than anything Saddam had done.
The Iraqi people knew where they stood with Saddam. Yeah, he was a nasty dictator, but if you kept your mouth shut and your nose clean in the old Iraq you could stay out of those horrible prisons and torture chambers.
In the new Iraq, we rolled in with promises of regime change and freedom and democracy and liberation. The United States – land of the free – was going to come in and rescue Iraq from this cruel dictator.
And then what did we do? We shot innocent Iraqis on the street in cold blood. We raided their houses and took away their family members. We tortured Iraqi prisoners. We beat Iraqi prisoners to death. We humiliated them and threatened their families and detained them indefinitely, often without any cause whatsoever. Just because some Iraqi wanted to settle a grudge or collect reward money and fingered a guy from a rival tribe or family as an “insurgent.”
All the while, still promising freedom and democracy to the people of Iraq. We replaced a cruel dictator with a cruel farce of democracy.
Yeah, I think that’s far worse.
March 18th, 2008 at 3:01 pm1 in 20 are dead (4% of the population)
1 in 10 have lost an arm or a leg
1 in 5 displaced are the lucky ones
March 18th, 2008 at 3:09 pmBush: “You say 1/5 displaced? Hmm but that means 2/3 is still placed and thats more than 75%.”
March 18th, 2008 at 3:10 pmThemanoncecared Says:
March 18th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
So this war was started because the American Govt just love’s to kill people.
Well I suppose maybe that is possible. God knows we have heard enough different explainations from those who started it so far.
March 18th, 2008 at 3:34 pmSouthern Man Says:
March 18th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
There was nothing to be worried about in Iraq. They were doing just fine. What happend at Abu Ghrab was far worse than anything Sadam had done, right?
abu grahb?
what about:
- 4000 U.S. troops dead
- many times more innocent Iraqi civilians killed
- a million or 2 displaced Iraqis
- hundreds of billions of taxpayers dollars wasted
yup! i’d say that’s FAR worse than anything saddam did!
btw, are you be willing to give your life or the life of a loved one to continue the occupation?
~LividHusseinLib
p.s. i wasn’t worried about iraq. not at all and i’m not worried about iran either!
March 18th, 2008 at 3:55 pmMy brother-in-law’s family served in Germany after WWII. They purchased millions in Renaissance china, furnishings and art for about a c-note per mil. That was a crime! It is happening in Iraq now, except it is the Cheney corporations with no-bid contracts that are raping the US instead of the former enemy.
March 18th, 2008 at 9:25 pmHow many Palestinians became refugees after the creation of the state of Israel. And they now or in the future will not be allowed the right of return in a two state solution. Fairness?
March 19th, 2008 at 10:52 am