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Half of Iraq 'in absolute poverty'

Up to eight million Iraqis require immediate emergency aid, with nearly half of the population living in "absolute poverty", according to a report by Oxfam and a coalition of Iraqi groups.

About four million people are lacking food and "in dire need of different types of humanitarian assistance", said the report, released in Amman on Monday.

"Iraqis are suffering from a growing lack of food, shelter, water and sanitation, health care, education, and employment," said the report, compiled by Oxfam and the NGO Co-ordination Committee in Iraq (NCCI).

The report also says two million people within the country are currently displced, while more than two million are refugees.

Most of those refugees have fled to Jordan and Syria.

Deaths fall

Meanwhile in Iraq, officials from the US military say they have seen a drop in US troop deaths in July.

In April, the number of US soldiers who died was 104, increased sharply in May when 126 servicemen died, and decreased slightly with 101 troops dead in June.

For the month of July, at least 69 US soldiers have died, about half the casualties in May.

Iraq's police say the number of civilian deaths also decreased by 36 per cent, from an estimated high of 1,900 in May to 1,342 in June.

General David Petraeus, the US commander in Iraq, said: "The sheikhs and the tribes and the leaders have banded together and made a decision to oppose al-Qaeda and that has resulted in a substantially improved security situation."

Despite what appears to be at least a temporary let-up in both military and civilian deaths, many say there will be no security without a stable Iraqi government.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CD761ADB-3523-4DC1-B106-2B5FC76A8674.htm



Yaaay less death!!!!

 

[Chips Rafferty]

Half of Iraq 'in absolute poverty'



Deaths fall



http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CD761ADB-3523-4DC1-B106-2B5FC76A8674.htm



Yaaay less death!!!!

This horrendous state of affairs would not have happened if Bush’s Jesus Junta hadn’t cooked the books to illegally attack Iraq. And it was made even worse by the American people giving Dimwit a second term as a reward for his war crimes.

Re-electing Dimwit in the circumstances in Iraq was the equivalent of the Germans, after being confronted with evidence of Hitler's crimes against humanity, re-electing the Nazi party in their first free elections after WW2.

Despite this, we STILL have decent authoritarian androids here advocating that America keeps combating “Al Qaeda” (i.e. continuing their conscious CRIMINAL mass murder of Iraqicoons and Afghaniggers) in their own, and everyone else’s backyard if necessary, but their own.

Supposedly to spare D-u-r Vaterland the extremely dubious chance of - but quite justified given the circumstances - retaliatory t-u-u-r attacks by their INNOCENT victims.

If that isn’t consciously and callously aiding and abetting their renegade regime's crimes against humanity, I’ll roseleaf Datenut’s sanctified Christian shit chute!

 

[actsnoblemartin]

To be fair. Didnt 60% of iraqis not have health care or live in poverty before saddam. I dont remember exactly, but here is the point. Did the u.s. fix post war germany or post war japan in only four years. Is 4 years really enough to fix all of iraq's ills?. No offense comrade, but iraq was not perfect, before we got there, and how will it be better if we leave, certainly, there are two positions: surge words, or troops get out of the way or civil war and redeploy over safer parts of iraq. How do you see it?

I am honestly interested in your opinions, as your friend, and more importantly, because you are a wise individual.

Half of Iraq 'in absolute poverty'



Deaths fall



http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CD761ADB-3523-4DC1-B106-2B5FC76A8674.htm



Yaaay less death!!!!