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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-04-09 12:19 AM
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4.5 million displaced, 1-2 million widows, 5 million orphans, about 1 million dead.....
When do you think we will stop?
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PDJane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-04-09 12:21 AM
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1. And don't forget the ongoing problems..........
from white phosphorus, from DU munitions, from the contamination of the Euphrates, from all the chemicals that were blown up in place...

And the answer seems to be when there is no one left.
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leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-04-09 12:24 AM
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2. Not until they're "free."


:cry:

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Fireweed247 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-04-09 12:25 AM
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3. When do I think it will stop or when do I WANT it to stop?
I had a dream the other night where bombs were falling on my town, military started entering homes screaming in a foreign language and taking people away never to been seen again....it was quite disturbing to say the least. I feel so awful for what we have done.
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ConsAreLiars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-04-09 02:14 AM
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4. And one little girl
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democrank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-04-09 02:24 AM
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5. Stop what?
Orphans? What orphans?
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-04-09 02:57 AM
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6. These orphans
Edited on Wed Feb-04-09 03:00 AM by autorank


5 million Iraqi orphans, anti-corruption board reveals
Baghdad, 15 December 2007 (Voices of Iraq)
http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/25097v

Iraq's anti-corruption board revealed on Saturday that there were five million Iraqi orphans as
reported by official government statistics, urging the government, parliament, and NGOs to be in
constant contact with Iraq's parentless children.

"The government should set up an institutional or legislative program to help the Iraqi orphans. Iraqi
is an oil-rich country and it is not acceptable that its orphans remain groaning in this tragedy," the
anti-corruption board chief, Moussa Faraj, said during a conference in Baghdad dedicated to orphans in
Iraq.

"The board on its own cannot meet the Iraqi orphans' needs, but there should be an organization or
even a ministry to provide care for orphans," he said.
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Orwellian_Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-04-09 07:33 AM
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7. K&R
Who's "we?"
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Jeanette in FL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-04-09 07:38 AM
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8. Collateral Damage, shit happens in war
:sarcasm:

If we, can't see that we are breeding a whole new generation of "terrorist" who will want to kill us.

And then we will wonder "why do they hate us".

This really sucks, the numbers are staggering.
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