Iraq Humanitarian Crisis

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This is an article that was written by Sherwood Ross on July 30th. It shows the horrible human rights abuses that are going on in Iraq as a result of the American Occupation. Check it out:

Today, July 30th, Oxfam and the NGO Coordination Committee in
Iraq(NCCI) will hold a news conference in the Hyatt Amman Hotel in
Jordan to issue a report detailing how the violence in Iraq "is
overshadowing a humanitarian crisis," with one-third of a nation, some
eight million souls, "in need of emergency aid." Here's what their
report will say:

Two million Iraqis have fled their homeland, becoming refugees,
mainly in Syria and Jordan. In short, they have voted with their feet
to get out, as they never did under Hussein, their departure speaking
volumes about which tyrant they preferred to live under.

More than two million people, "mostly women and children," have
been displaced inside Iraq. (This figure may not include the
imprisoned 60,000 Iraqi men scooped up in dragnet arrests by U.S.
forces who were almost universally innocent of any crimes but who have
been labeled "terrorists" to justify the White House war.)

Seventy percent of Iraqis are without adequate water supplies,
compared to 50 percent in 2003, the year Mr. Bush, who knew better
than the impartial UN inspectors, took it upon himself to destroy
Hussein's WMD that threatened to incinerate America. The water
shortage, by the way, like the sputtering electrical system, undercuts
Mr. Bush's boast a few years back to make Iraq's infrastructure the
finest in the Middle East. Instead, Dr. Saad Eskander, director of
Iraq's National Library and Archive in Baghdad, told the New York
Times last February 7th about his Internet diary, "I feared that
people would not believe what I would say about daily life and the
state of total chaos and destruction prevailing in Baghdad."

(Sherwood Ross is an American writer who covers military and political
topics. Reach him at [e-mail])