Charlie Rose: Geo Packer, Ken Lamb, & Iraqi refugee -- topic is Iraqi refugees

[Bozita]

I just tuned in.

Rose's website is down again.

[cindylouwho]

1. Packer was on NPR's Fresh Air yesterday.

The statements that stuck with me are that last summer 4,000 refugees fled Baghdad every month. It is a hidden refugee crisis. The people who remain in Baghdad are mostly too poor to leave. The wealthy and middle class have already left. There was also a rather horrifying statement from a bus driver whose route is to one of the neighboring countries about anyone left in BAghdad would die in one of three ways.

[EFerrari]

2. Welcome to DU, cindylouwho.

The thing that got me was the Iraqi lady who said her seventeen year old sister couldn't walk in public in Damascus without being called a prostitute because Iraqis have "lost respect" in the Middle East since our illegal invasion. That is heartbreaking. :(

[cindylouwho]

3. My local station is having their semi annual fund drive

so it was shortened and interrupted. I didn't hear that one but you're right. It is heartbreaking.