US attack on Tal Afar virtually ignored (relates to Katrina)

[donsu]

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/091505Heard/091505heard.html


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Like the people of New Orleans, almost 90 percent of Tal Afar's residents have fled their homes. And like their American counterparts, the doors of their houses are being smashed in by military forces, there to pacify the town after weeks of bombing and shelling.

The similarities don't end there. While people of the US Gulf Coast are suffering the effects of a cocktail of chemicals and effluent in the flood waters, 170 residents of Tal Afar have fallen ill to "curious poisons," which, according to Dr. Mohammed Qassem of the Iraqi Red Crescent, could result from "inhaling gases."

But unlike the unfortunates trapped for five days in the Superdome and the convention center who have been evacuated to air-conditioned reception centers around the US, many of Tal Afar's people can be found subsisting under canvas without access to clean water, food and medicines. There is no telethon for them. There are no convoys of aid-bearing trucks and planes, stuffed with food and blankets, headed in their direction.

The difference is the pleas of American victims were eventually heard loud and clear but those of people trapped inside Tal Afar or forgotten around its peripheries are lost in the ether. The afflicted of New Orleans deemed refugees were insulted, while refugees from Tal Afar don't have that luxury. Even to be acknowledged at all would be a step up.
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someone else in the world will have to help the Tal Afarians, we americans can't even help our own Katrina survivors very well.

the bushgang is a crime against humanity

[Melissa G]

1. kick

[acmavm]

2. Yeah, in some ways Katrina was a benefit to bush**. Besides this, oh and

the Abu Graib photos, and taking the focus off KKKarl the Treasonous Bastard Rove, who knows what slipped under the radar.

Or let me put it this way, we may know, but not most of the clueless Amercian public.