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Iraq Refugee Crisis Worsens: 4.2 Million And Rising »

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Across Iraq, millions of people are looking for safer places to live, and not finding them. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) reported last week that 4.2 million Iraqis have been forced out of their homes. There are also ominous signs that the 4-month-old US security plan for Baghdad is failing to reduce the level of violence.

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  • Avg rating: (+22/-2 20)Aurinkohirvi
    Aurinkohirvi
    June 10, 2007, 2:56 a.m.

    "He killed his own people" - George W. Bush.

    Saddam wasn't a nice guy. But there had been a civil war going on in Iraq before Saddam, during Saddam's rule, and after Saddam. USA and neighbouring coutries supporting different factions rebelling against Saddam caused maybe hundreds of thousands extra deaths.

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/...

    The infant death rate has risen 150% from 2003 to 2005 in Iraq. Every 8th Iraqi child of under 5 years old dies.

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=...

    Prices have soared and annual median incomes dropped $255 in 2003 to about $144 in 2004.

    http://www.albionmonitor.com/0702a/iraqriverwat...

    As water supply systems have collapsed, millions of Iraqis don't have clean water and suffer waterborne diseases such as diarrhea. According to the Ministry of Water Resources, only 32 percent of the Iraqi population has access to clean drinking water.

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