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2007-04-26 Iraq

US Obligated to Help with Humanitarian Crisis in Iraq

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Posted by Bobby 2007-04-26 07:55|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The UN was obligated to assist in the enforcement of its resolutions. The only reason the UN is concerned is that there's no more money to steal.

Posted by doc 2007-04-26 08:10|| 2007-04-26 08:10|| Front Page Top

#2 I thought we had to leave, with all speed.

Make up your minds.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-04-26 08:11|| 2007-04-26 08:11|| Front Page Top

#3 I am obligated to put my boot so far up your ass that you damn teeth will crack, Ms. Hakki.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-04-26 08:14|| 2007-04-26 08:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Here's my contribution: Quit acting like savages.

Posted by ed 2007-04-26 08:17|| 2007-04-26 08:17|| Front Page Top

#5 We keep hearing the message from leading Iraqis that it would be disastrous were the US to actually pull out of Iraq in the foreseeable future. Dr. Hakki is approaching it from a different angle than, say, Prime Minister Maliki or the head of the Kurdish police force, but the bottom line is the same: "Please don't desert us!"

Posted by trailing wife 2007-04-26 08:31|| 2007-04-26 08:31|| Front Page Top

#6 We have probably made it clear to the NGOs working in Iraq that if we leave, they are boned. So it is their best interests to actively lobby that we stay.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-04-26 10:30|| 2007-04-26 10:30|| Front Page Top

#7 First, the "wealthy neighbors" are tapped out - kinda costly supporting all those jihadis and such who are committing such savage crimes in Iraq.

Second, NGOs aren't in Iraq due to the security situation (well, not the major relief-oriented ones, anyway), and that ain't gonna change.

If the comments were directed at countering US sentiment about quick withdrawal, that's fine. Otherwise they are rather infuriating - when the US has shouldered all the difficult responsibilities nearly alone (kudos to our Coalition partners, who deserve great credit) for years, to come tsk-tsking us about doing more - sheesh.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-04-26 11:50|| 2007-04-26 11:50|| Front Page Top

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