August 9, 2007 7:07 AM

So how's that surge working out for you??

Worse Than You Think

The non-stop violence in Iraq is overshadowing a humanitarian crisis, with eight million Iraqis—nearly one in three—in need of emergency aid, says a new report released by the international agency Oxfam and NCCI, a network of about 80 international and 200 local NGOs established in Baghdad in 2003 to help assess and meet the needs of the Iraqi population. The report, based on research from the United Nations, the Iraqi government, and nonprofit organizations Oxfam works with or finances, offers little original data. But it provides one of the most comprehensive pictures to date of the human crisis within Iraq and what it describes as a slow-motion response from Iraq’s government, the United States, the United Nations, and the European Union. The numbers presented by Oxfam offer a stark contrast to the picture of steadily improving conditions painted by the Iraqi government and the US military over the past several months, as Megan Greenwell notes in the Washington Post.

It’s not that the war in Iraq has been a first-class clusterf—k virtually since Day One. It’s not that no planning seems to have been done for the post-war period. It’s not even that almost 4000 Americans have died for…well, for no discernible reason. No, perhaps the biggest tragedy in Iraq is what Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader’s © Excellent Adventure is doing to the people of Iraq. You can throw numbers and statistics around all you like, but it doesn’t change the reality of the vast pain and suffering that have been forced upon Iraqis by an American President bent on making the Middle East safe for rich White Christians in the Oil Bidness.

Perhaps the saddest aspect of what’s happening in Iraq is that a previously functional country has been turned into an economic, social, and political basket case. Yes, there can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein was a bad man who probably needed to be killed. The problem, though, is that we marched in with the neoCon war planners thinking that the natives would be throwing rose petals at our feet and singing hosannas. Uh…things didn’t quite work out that way, did they?

We have thoroughly destroyed the infrastructure of a sovereign nation. We have perpetuated the carnage and the devastation through our arrogance and lack of understanding of both the region and the size of the task that going to war in Iraq required taking on. We have killed an untold number of innocent Iraqi civilians and created the atmosphere that perpetuates the senseless murder of even more. No longer can Iraqis enjoy simple tasks like going to the market without experiencing total, abject fear of random and brutal annihilation.

Iraq is broken, perhaps irreparably, and your tax dollars have financed what is arguably the biggest failure of leadership in our nation’s history. Even worse, the President responsible for this clusterf—k knows that Congressional Democrats don’t have the balls to demand that he be held accountable for his incompetence and war crimes. Yep, nothing like exercising the courage of your convictions, eh, boys??

So what has The Decider © wrought in Iraq? Well, check these statistics out:

•Four million Iraqis – 15 percent - cannot buy enough to eat.

•70 percent are without adequate water supplies, compared to 50 percent in 2003.

•28 percent of children are malnourished, compared to 19 percent before the invasion.

•92 percent of Iraqi children suffer learning problems.

‚Äö√Ѭ¢43 percent of Iraqis live in “absolute poverty,” earning less than one dollar a day.

•More than two million people have been displaced inside Iraq.

•A further two million Iraqis have become refugees, mainly in Syria and Jordan.

Compounding the tragedy illustrated by these statistics, which really only scratch the surface of the suffering and privation, is the reality that King George the Worst © seems to consider merely a cost of doing business. Hey, you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, eh?

Nice war, jackass….

NOW CAN WE IMPEACH THE LYING, MURDERING BASTARD??

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