A Tidal Wave Of Misery Is Engulfing Iraq


	A Tidal Wave Of Misery Is Engulfing Iraq

papananook

2-13-2008 3:29 PM

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papananook says:

It's not something the USA "wins"--it's a disaster of human misery...Great Job, Dubya!

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2-14-2008 1:38 PM

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Why does George Bush like to be called "W"?

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		  			February 13, 2008
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		  		By <B>Michael Schwartz</B>
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 									Source: Mother Jones								</DIV><BR /><DIV>
 				 					<A href="http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/michaelschwartz">Michael Schwartz's ZSpace Page</A>
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</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/16497"><SPAN>tidal wave of misery is engulfing <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Iraq</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION>—and it isn't the usual violence that Americans are accustomed to hearing about and tuning out. To be sure, it's rooted in that violence, but this tsunami of misery is social and economic in nature. It dislodges people from their jobs, sweeps them from their homes, tears them from their material possessions, and carries them off from families and communities. It leaves them stranded in hostile towns or foreign countries, with no anchor to resist the moment when the next wave of displacement sweeps over them. <O:P _moz-userdefined=""></O:P></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/16497">
The victims of this human tsunami are called refugees if they wash ashore outside the country or IDPs ("internally displaced persons") if their landing place is within <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Iraq</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION>'s borders.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/16497"> left with no permanent housing, no reliable livelihood, no community support, and no government aid. All the normal social props that support human lives are removed,</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DF30B4AF-732D-43FE-A59C-28B31A82FA6B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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