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IRAQ IS DYING OF THIRST/ DOES ANYONE CARE ?
The report, 'Rising to the Humanitarian Challenge in Iraq' reports that 70 percent of Iraqis are without adequate water supplies, compared to 50 percent in 2003, the year the U.S.led invasion of Iraq was launched. About 80 percent of Iraqis lack effective sanitation, the report said.
U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker acknowledged to reporters July 19th that Baghdad residents were receiving on average only one hour of electricity a day. Before the U.S.-led invasion, Baghdad residents received 16-24 hours of electricity daily.
Without electricity, water cannot be pumped to homes and the average daily summer temperature is well over 100 degrees.
The only area where electricity is available 24 hours a day as well as plentiful water supplies is the American occupied Green Zone ~ with its fully functioning living quarters, swimming pools, restaurants and health spas.
Now bear that in mind and consider that Iraqi hospitals are full of people with illnesses due to the unsafe water. Doctors at several hospitals confirmed to IPS that water is one of the worst causes of diseases, especially among children, and that some of children had died of water-borne diseases compounded by a severe lack of medicines.
While Bush lies about local progress ~ a report released July 30th by the international agency Oxfam and NCCI, a network of aid organisations working in Iraq, said that eight million Iraqis, nearly one in three, were in dire need of emergency aid.
The report, 'Rising to the Humanitarian Challenge in Iraq' said that 70 percent of Iraqis are without adequate water supplies, compared to 50 percent in 2003, the year the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was launched. About 80 percent of Iraqis lack effective sanitation, the report said.
The humanitarian disaster in Iraq is being compounded by a mass exodus of their medical staff fleeing chronic violence and lawlessness. A report by Oxfam International shows the lack of doctors and nurses is fracturing a health system on the brink of collapse.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2874108.ece
Now watch this one minute video of American soldiers taunting Iraqi children, from their speeding vehicle, with bottled water and you will realize why we are hated and despised by Iraqis ~ and why we will eventually be humiliated and driven out of their illegally occupied country by some of these very same children.
Torpor Indy: Winning the Hearts and minds of the Iraqi People 
| I do know that most of the Iraqiis would like us to leave and let them sort it out. ... Kids are thirsty and dying.... December 04, 2006. |
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