At today’s news conference, NCCI and Oxfam will call on the Iraqi government to extend food parcel distribution, increase emergency cash payments, and back up local aid organizations. They’ll ask the central government to delegate more authority to local governments to deliver the aid and for foreign governments, including the US and UK, to support Iraqi ministries in the relief effort.
Meanwhile, back in the U.S., Mr. Bush, who is served three square meals a day and has no difficulty turning on the lights or getting running water and is in no danger from suicide bombers or aerial strikes or IEDs, continues to focus on how to defeat “terrorists” in Iraq, with nary a word about the “humanitarian crisis.” If his “management” of the war has been a disaster, his remedial help for Iraq’s people has been a calamity. If Americans will not impeach this tyrant, they do not deserve even the few freedoms he has not yet usurped from them.
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(Sherwood Ross is an American writer who covers military and political topics. Reach him at sherwoodr1@yahoo.com).
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