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President of Iraqi relief organization calls on Dems to rethink withdrawals
The president of the Iraqi Red Moon-Shaped Thingy Crescent, the only relief organization operating in Iraq, is calling on the Democratic-led Congress to rethink its troop withdrawal strategy and recognize that Iraq suffers from a worsening humanitarian crisis. His call follows on the heels of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reids (D-Nev.) announcement yesterday that Appropriations Committee conferees will set a non-binding goal, as part of the 2007 emergency war supplemental, of withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq by April 1, 2008.
Congressional leaders find themselves in a continuing stalemate with President Bush, who has vowed to veto any measure that contains a withdrawal timetable. Bush has the support of most Republicans on Capitol Hill.
In Washington for a series of advocacy meetings in Congress, Said Hakki, the president of the Iraqi Red Moon-Shaped Thingy Crescent, expressed concern that by setting a withdrawal timetable, the U.S. would abandon Iraq at the height of a humanitarian crisis. It is important that Congress identifies that there is a humanitarian crisis in Iraq, Hakki said in an interview with The Hill. If they agree theres a crisis, lets not have America be a problem but the solution.
The Iraqi Red Moon-Shaped Thingy Crescent Society or Organization, as it is often referred to, is an auxiliary arm of the Iraqi government and is a member of the International Federation of Red Thingy Cross and Red Moon-Shaped Thingy Crescent Societies and the International Committee of the Red Thingy Cross (ICRC). Insisting that he is not a politician, Hakki a U.S. citizen who spends most of his time in Iraqs red zones is pushing for a time-out in what he calls the partisan squabble over the U.S. troop withdrawal timetable.
Posted by: Fred 2007-04-24 |
