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2007-07-30 Iraq

More Iraqis Starving Now Than When Saddam Ruled

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Posted by Bobby 2007-07-30 05:56|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Baath Party

#1 According to the "agencies" that keep these statistics, there are "22 children starving in my street" even though only 5 children live on my street...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2007-07-30 09:01|| 2007-07-30 09:01|| Front Page Top

#2 One thing I've noticed from photographs is that there are live Iraqis and dead Iraqis, but there are no thin Iraqis.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-07-30 09:05|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-07-30 09:05|| Front Page Top

#3 In fact, if you look at the photo at the link, you'll see plump Iraqis in line for humanitarian aid. These aid agencies are a merely a conduit for funneling donor funds to well-fed people in the countries of the aid agencies' choice. This is why well-fed Iraqis and not starving Sudanese or Congolese are being fed.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-07-30 09:08|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-07-30 09:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Funny, I heard a report on NPR this morning about all the starvation in Afghanistan. Coincidence? I think not.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-07-30 09:17|| 2007-07-30 09:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Thess situations will, of couse, miraculously disappear if and when a Democrat is elected president.

Posted by tu3031 2007-07-30 09:55|| 2007-07-30 09:55|| Front Page Top

#6 More liberal spin for more tax dollars.

Nothing to see here. Please move along.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-07-30 10:01|| 2007-07-30 10:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Interesting, in that this year, Iraq is expected to have an all-time bumper crop of produce from its farms, slashing food prices.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-07-30 10:33|| 2007-07-30 10:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Probably a link with the folks that brought us the "600,000 Iraqi civilians killed" story.

Posted by Bobby 2007-07-30 10:47|| 2007-07-30 10:47|| Front Page Top

#9 One thing I've noticed from photographs is that there are live Iraqis and dead Iraqis, but there are no thin Iraqis.

When the Nick Berg decapitation snuff movie was first made public and revealed to the world the islamic fondness for beheading prisoners (not that this was a novelty, decapitations of civilians or prisoners were common during the algerian "independence" war, or during the same 90's civil war), I remember there were "troothers" who "debunked" the video and claimed the perps were actually US soldiers in disguise, doing Black Ops for blaming poor jihadis... and one of the main clues that left them persuaded those masked men were not iraqis but americans, was that they looked well-fed and even on the plump/overweight side...
That's because, it's a well-known fact that the average Us solider is out of shape and a lard ass, while the average jihadis is a rail-thin poor malnurished brown people, just like zarqawi, heh.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-07-30 11:11|| 2007-07-30 11:11|| Front Page Top

#10 Those starving Iraqis should be grateful that they're not being fed into shredders, tortured in jail cells or having their daughters raped for kicks by Qusai and Uday. When the Iraqi people begin offing the terrorists amongst them and put an end to the endless internecine struggle that is destabilizing their country, maybe then I'll have some sympathy. So long as they perpetuate the usual craptacular inter-tribal festivities, they can starve. These handwringing relief agencies can go screw themselves. I'd love to see what percentage of their donations actually makes it to the needy.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-30 11:54|| 2007-07-30 11:54|| Front Page Top

#11 By THOMAS WAGNER, Associated Press Writer
LONDON

Any guesses who Mr. Wagner's stringers are associated with? The ones he knows are trustworthy because he's been working with them since '02, dontchaknow.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-07-30 12:51|| 2007-07-30 12:51|| Front Page Top

#12 and when the democrats take the presidency the united states will absorb all of these refugees. soon after they will be the source of further terrorist attacks on U.S. soil.

Posted by Squinty Shaviting7720 2007-07-30 13:04|| 2007-07-30 13:04|| Front Page Top

#13 Is the author, Thomas Wagner, one of those who so often cited the Iraqi police Captain, Jamil Hussein? Ya know, the source for over 60 articles the AP never could produce?

Posted by Bobby 2007-07-30 13:46|| 2007-07-30 13:46|| Front Page Top

#14 This seems beyond dubious. Economic activity in Iraq is quite good, it's an associative culture with integration of families that makes malnutrition less likely, and food is plentiful and cheap. My time over there and my years in the food aid biz leave me extremely skeptical on this. Our collective experience of the unreliability of "aid" groups, especially in the last few years, especially on anything connected to Iraq, leave us with almost no basis to take this seriously.

Aside from this, 100% of the problem is attributable to the activities of foreign terrorists, Sunni chauvinists, Shi'a gangs, criminals, and their foreign backers. Imagine Oxfam or any other such outfit calling on these thugs to desist. Yeah, I didn't think you could.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-07-30 14:28|| 2007-07-30 14:28|| Front Page Top

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