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red cross report: iraq is still a shit hole

forged registration Registered on Dec-17-2005 More User Info Message #113375 posted by forged registration (Info) March 17, 2008 13:36:37 ET Iraqis still lack health care, clean water, says Red Cross report Last Updated: Monday, March 17, 2008 | 10:53 AM ET Comments5Recommend13 CBC News Five years after the start of the war in Iraq, millions of Iraqis are still lacking clean water, sanitation and health care, a report from the International Committee of the Red Cross said Monday. "The humanitarian situation in most of the country remains among the most critical in the world," said the report, "Iraq: No let-up in the humanitarian crisis," from the Geneva-based agency. The conflict has worsened the impact of previous wars and years of international sanctions that caused severe hardship in the country, it said. The country's 172 public hospitals — many of which are in substandard condition — provide only 30,000 of the necessary 80,000 hospital beds. Few Iraqis can afford to pay the $2 to $7 cost of private clinics. "The Iraqi health-care system is now in worse shape than ever. Many lives have been lost because prompt and appropriate medical care is not available," it said. Iraqi government officials estimate more than 2,200 doctors and nurses have been killed and more than 250 kidnapped since 2003. Of the 34,000 doctors registered in 1990, at least 20,000 have left the country. Clean water is difficult for Iraqis to maintain and access because of population growth, increasing costs, lack of qualified staff and poor security conditions. Chlorine supplies used to sterilize the water are limited because the chemical can be used to make bombs. "The poor quality of much of the water is due to other factors, including illegal connections to the water supply, outdated networks of pipes that do not fully protect the water against contamination and frequent interruptions of the supply of the chemicals needed to treat and disinfect the water," it said. The average Iraqi, who brings home roughly $150 US per month, spends about $50 per month for water.

altercheney: iraq is a phenomenal success

forged registration Registered on Dec-17-2005 More User Info Message #113379 posted by forged registration (Info) March 17, 2008 14:09:21 ET In Reply to: red cross report: iraq is still a shit hole posted by forged registration (Info) March 17, 2008 13:36:37 ET meanwhile, in a parallel universe... Iraq invasion was "successful endeavour"-Cheney Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:13pm EDT By Tabassum Zakaria BAGHDAD, March 17 (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday declared the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq a "successful endeavour" in a visit to Iraq that was overshadowed by a suicide bombing that killed at least 25 people. "If you look back on those five years it has been a difficult, challenging but nonetheless successful endeavour ... and it has been well worth the effort," Cheney told a news conference in Baghdad after meeting Iraqi leaders. The Iraq war is a major issue in the U.S. presidential campaign. As it enters it sixth year, the war has cost the U.S. economy $500 billion and seen nearly 4,000 U.S. soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis killed. Shortly after Cheney spoke, a woman wearing a suicide vest blew herself up in a cafe in the southern holy Shi'ite city of Kerbala, killing 25 people and wounding 50, police and health officials said. Bombs in Baghdad killed four and wounded 13. Cheney, an architect of the invasion, arrived as Republican presidential candidate John McCain was meeting Iraqi leaders as part of a Senate Armed Services Committee fact-finding mission. "I was last in Baghdad 10 months ago and I sense that, as a result of the progress that has been made since then, phenomenal changes in terms of the overall situation," Cheney said after meeting Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. Cheney said there had been a "remarkable turnaround" in security after 30,000 extra troops were sent to Iraq last year to help reduce sectarian violence that threatened civil war. Despite the improved security, however, some 4 million Iraqis are still displaced, and the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a report on Monday that millions were still deprived of clean water and medical care. Like McCain, Cheney is in Iraq as part of a wider tour to the Middle East. Cheney will also visit Saudi Arabia, Jerusalem, the Palestinian territories, Turkey and Oman on a nine-day tour. Both men have been staunch supporters of the U.S. troop build-up that Washington says helped drag Iraq back from the brink of all-out sectarian civil war between majority Shi'ites and minority Sunni Muslims who were dominant under Saddam. "The surge is working," McCain, referring to the troop build-up, told CNN in an interview in Baghdad. (Writing by Paul Tait and Ross Colvin, additional reporting by Sami al-Jumaili in Kerbala; Editing by Richard Balmforth)

Re: red cross report: iraq is still a shit hole

imnother Registered on Oct-05-2006 More User Info Message #113380 posted by imnother (Info) March 17, 2008 14:10:06 ET In Reply to: red cross report: iraq is still a shit hole posted by forged registration (Info) March 17, 2008 13:36:37 ET Fuck Red Cross because they charged Vietnam vets money for stale donuts and coffee and apologise 40 years later. BUT THE REAL STORY IS....... why isn't iraqui billions of dollars in oil revenue in non-Iraqui banks paying for the reconstruction instead of MY TAX DOLLARS????? the Pentagon's head of U.S. Central copmmand and State Department's Iraq Coordinator Levin said..... "It is totally unacceptable to me that 'WE' are spending 'tens of billions of dollars' on rebuilding Iraq. "While they are putting tens of billions of dollars in banks around the world from oil revenues." "We believe that it has been overwhelmingly U.S. taxpayers money that has funded Iraq reconstruction over the last five years." "Despite Iraq earning billions in oil revenue over that period that have ended up in non Iraqui banks." It is THE IRAQUI GUVMENT' THAT IS NOT DOING ENOUGH FOR ESSENTIAL SERVICES AND NOT US GENEROUS AMERICANS. We are bleeding economically to help them and they earned $41 billion in 2007, and $9.4 billion so far this year. WHERE IS THAT MONEY??? My Senate wants to know that answer...as well as me BTW! The Senate Committee is currently auditing it. Iraqi government is responsible also for essential servises and improve the quality of life for its citizens. WE...MEANING US AMERICANS....can't do it all and TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN PEOPLE WHO ARE DROWNING IN DEBT AND LOSING HOMES CURRENTLY! the middle class working Americans are going under currently so fuck the Iraqui's and Red Cross!

Re: red cross report: iraq is still a shit hole

imnother Registered on Oct-05-2006 More User Info Message #113381 posted by imnother (Info) March 17, 2008 14:17:36 ET In Reply to: Re: red cross report: iraq is still a shit hole posted by imnother (Info) March 17, 2008 14:10:06 ET I must clarify that my hate of the RED CROSS has nothing to do with its founder and my personal hero...the Civil War nurse Clara Barton....I am sure she would not approve of todays Red Cross though....but let us not forget ole Clara who was a true nurse.

the crybaby pentagon and it's begging bucket

forged registration Registered on Dec-17-2005 More User Info Message #113382 posted by forged registration (Info) March 17, 2008 14:35:49 ET In Reply to: Re: red cross report: iraq is still a shit hole posted by imnother (Info) March 17, 2008 14:10:06 ET why should iraq squander what little wealth it has to pay haliburton to repair the damage caused by the usa, especially while the usa is still occupying the country? imagine if your neighbour decided to protect his family from a dog you don't even have by kicking in your front door and smashing up your house and moving in with his burly sons to beat the place up some more to make sure you don't have a dog hidden somewhere...now imagine that you're sitting in the ruins of your house, and your neighbour opens the window and complains publicly that this is costing him too much, and that you should be paying his sons to make the place more liveable you say they 'earned' $41 billion in 2007...that is much less than half the cash the usa dumped into iraq during the same period...iraq is already spending money on itself but it isn't going to spend it's last penny fixing the usa's mistakes because it will need that money to limp along if the usa ever pulls out y'know, iraq also has debt problems far worse than the usa...the debts of it's former regime were not entirely forgiven...iraq still carries over $56 billion in debt (more than 100% of it's annual GDP)...it's total exports (85% of which are oil) amounted to only $34 billion...it had a $6 billion budget deficit in 2007, with only $42 billion in government revenues...it's financial/currency reserves are only $21 billion...how are they supposed to pay for reconstruction with those financials? the country is an a political/social/economic crisis and the pentagon wants iraqis to spend what little they have left to reduce the american taxpayers cost of what the american taxpayers did to iraq AMAZING! https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/iz.html

screw red cross

sanclem Premier Member Registered on Nov-16-2000 More User Info Message #113392 posted by sanclem (Info) March 17, 2008 17:51:49 ET In Reply to: the crybaby pentagon and it's begging bucket posted by forged registration (Info) March 17, 2008 14:35:49 ET I have give a few gallons of blood but not one penny to them. Charging for coffee and donuts,etc. In combat they run like @#^%ds. They can not even work here how in the hell do you expect some other place. They are just as bad as The ACLU if anything could get that low.

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