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Just saw this on BBC… How do they justify this? Let me see the justification from the usual suspects who support this war on this board.
Aid agencies have been trying to send their workers into Iraq to assess what relief supplies are needed in the war torn country. Patrick Nicholson of the UK charity Cafod has just returned from the Umm Qasr, **where he found the humanitarian effort in the British occupied area to be a “shambles”. **
I have just returned from working in Angola and never expected to see exactly the same sort of poverty in Iraq - a country floating on oil.
From the TV pictures of Umm Qasr, I had been led to believe it was a town under control, where the needs of the people were being met.
The town is not under control. It’s like the Wild West. And even the most major humanitarian concern, water, is not being adequately administered.
Dirty water
Everywhere I went, the local people asked me for water. I went into the two rooms occupied by a family of 14, they were drinking from an oil drum half full of stagnant, dirty water. It was water I certainly would not have drunk
The little girl was very malnourished, skeletal, and in my experience as an aid worker I would say she had less than a week to live