Number Of Iraqis Fleeing Homes Soars In Months Since Troop Surge

The New York Times:

The number of Iraqis fleeing their homes has soared since the American troop increase began in February, according to data from two humanitarian groups, accelerating the partition of the country into sectarian enclaves.

Despite some evidence that the troop buildup has improved security in certain areas, sectarian violence continues and American-led operations have brought new fighting, driving fearful Iraqis from their homes at much higher rates than before the tens of thousands of additional troops arrived, the studies show.

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Comments

[SouthpawSass]

You know, if they would have just given us the flowers and kisses we apparently so desperately needed, they never would have forced us to take this a step further.

Wait, Iraqi people! WE JUST WANT TO BE YOUR FRIENDS! Don't let the fact we killed grandma and destroyed your uncles home, while simultaneously killing your neighbors entire family get in the way...

[Natal]

The Administration is completely immune to the suffering and grief in Iraq. There are peaceful solutions to the situation and groups have talked about it for years and offered the "knowledge". They've been ignored and ridiculed everytime. So the wheel of karma continues and it proves once again each must follow his dharmic path like mice in a maze.

[caribbe2]

You have a grammar snafoo. Correction: Number Of Iraqis Fleeing Homes Soar In Months Since Troop Surge

[Captain EdwardGraham]

If Bu$h dont care about the millions of homeless in Amerika then why should he care about homeless IRAQIs?

http://www.asce.org/reportcard/2005/page.cfm?id=103

Poor road conditions cost U.S. motorists $54 billion a year in repairs and operating costs--$275 per motorist. Americans spend 3.5 billion hours a year stuck in traffic, at a cost of $63.2 billion a year to the economy. Total spending of $59.4 billion annually is well below the $94 billion needed annually to improve transportation infrastructure conditions nationally. While long-term Federal transportation programs remain unauthorized since expiring on Sept. 30, 2003, the nation continues to shortchange funding for needed transportation improvements.

[gakabani]

There are close to 1 million Iraqis in Syria. The Syrian economy is just at a point of collapse as inflation is rampant.
Bush in his demonic view knows that the overall objective is to control Iraq as a territory not as a nation. The Iraqi people are irrelevant. He wishes he can build a concentration camp and annihilate all of them. Bush is a criminal.

Unfortunately for Bush and cabal, Iraqis refugees will soon go back to Iraq having stronger ties with Syria.

This is bad news for the Adolf Bush and Cheny Himmler. Their master plan of world OIL domination is collapsing. The American Führer may realize that he cannot open a second front with Iran; however, he is a maniac on drugs and still, along with his allies, can attack it by the end of the year.

The Iraq people have lost many generations but they will soon be free from all American influence.

Saddam was a creation of the USA.
Al-Qaida was a creation of the USA.

And we americans are stupid enough to let a president like this go on claiming lies and spilling destruction all over.

WE NEED TO GO BACK TO CONSTITUTIONAL GROUNDS.

[helonias]

So wy doesn't GB or Tony Snowjob or Rudy Adulterer mention these folks?

[MissingAmerica]

My heart goes out to these people. Their life may not look good to us, but it is what they lived. Change is personal, and democracy is peaceful, something of which this administration is totally unaware. The Iraqi people, all people, just as we Americans, want to live in peace.

[Captain EdwardGraham]

Fallen Hawaii-based soldiers promoted

• Schofield troop deaths blamed on tail rotor

By Dan Nakaso
Advertiser Staff Writer


Promotions were handed out posthumously for several of the 14 soldiers who died in a Black Hawk helicopter crash in Iraq on Wednesday as families from New Jersey to California prepared to welcome home their sons.

Marian Stockhausen of Warrenville, Ill., was exhausted but polite yesterday after fielding untold media requests and condolences for her son, Phillip John Brodnick, 25, who was promoted from Army specialist to corporal hours after the crash that killed Brodnick and nine of his fellow soldiers from Schofield Barracks.

"You can imagine it's just a dreadful time," Stockhausen said. "But we want his name remembered. We definitely do not want him forgotten."

Spc. Michael A. Hook of Altoona, Pa., would have turned 26 today — the same day his body is scheduled to arrive on U.S. soil at Delaware's Dover Air Force Base.

"He'll be home on his birthday," said Hook's stepmother, Belinda Hook, of Little Egg Harbor, N.J.

Belinda and her husband, Larry Hook, were preparing to leave for Altoona to join extended family when Hook's body makes its way to Pennsylvania.

"We all want to be there when Michael arrives," Belinda said.

In Caruthersville, Mo., it seemed yesterday like the entire town of about 7,000 was waiting for the body of Spc. Ricky Bell, 21, one of four Black Hawk crewmen with the 6th Air Cavalry Regiment out of Fort Lewis, Wash., who died in the crash.

To bring Bell home — possibly as soon as tomorrow — his aunt, Glenda Overbey, helped the Army find a landing strip at least 3,000 feet long for his plane.

She finally found one — a city-owned airstrip 4,000 feet long.

"I wouldn't exactly call it a municipal airport," Overbey said.
In Willoughby Hills, Ohio, plans were under way to greet Cpl. Joshua S. Harmon's body with military pomp and a firefighters' salute in honor of Harmon's father, Richard, the town fire chief.

[Captain EdwardGraham]

08/23/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualties (part 14)
Spc. Tyler R. Seideman, 20, of Lincoln, Ark...assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii...died Aug. 22 in Multaka, Iraq, of injuries suffered...

08/23/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualties (part 13)
Spc. Jessy G. Pollard, 22, of Springfield, Mo...assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii...died Aug. 22 in Multaka, Iraq, of injuries suffered...

08/23/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualties (part 12)
Spc. Michael A. Hook, 25, of Altoona, Penn...assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii...died Aug. 22 in Multaka, Iraq, of injuries suffered...

08/23/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualties (part 11)
Cpl. Nathan C. Hubbard, 21, of Clovis, Calif...assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii...died Aug. 22 in Multaka, Iraq, of injuries suffered...

08/23/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualties (part 10)
Cpl. Joshua S. Harmon, 20, of Mentor, Ohio...assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii...died Aug. 22 in Multaka, Iraq, of injuries suffered...

08/23/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualties (part 9)
Cpl. Phillip J. Brodnick, 25, of New Lenox, Ill...assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii...died Aug. 22 in Multaka, Iraq, of injuries suffered...

08/23/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualties (part 8)
Cpl. Jeremy P. Bouffard, 21, of Middlefield, Mass...assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii...died Aug. 22 in Multaka, Iraq, of injuries suffered...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGqfRVA8Dqw&mode=related&search= Adolf Hitler Speech using Kinetic Typography

[Captain EdwardGraham]

08/23/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualties (part 7)
Sgt. Garrett I. McLead, 23, of Rockport, Texas...assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii...died Aug. 22 in Multaka, Iraq, of injuries suffered...

08/23/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualties (part 6)
Staff Sgt. Jason L. Paton, 25, of Poway, Calif...assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii...died Aug. 22 in Multaka, Iraq, of injuries suffered...

08/23/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualties (part 5)
Capt. Derek A. Dobogai, 26, of Fond du Lac, Wis...assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii...died Aug. 22 in Multaka, Iraq, of injuries suffered..
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08/23/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualties (part 4)
Spc. Rickey L. Bell, 21, of Caruthersville, Mo...assigned to the 4th Squadron, 6th U.S. Air Cavalry Regiment, Fort Lewis, Wash...died Aug. 22 in Multaka, Iraq, of injuries suffered when their helicopter crashed

08/23/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualties (part 3)
Sgt. Matthew L. Tallman, 30, of Groveland, Calif...assigned to the 4th Squadron, 6th U.S. Air Cavalry Regiment, Fort Lewis, Wash...died Aug. 22 in Multaka, Iraq, of injuries suffered when their helicopter crashed

08/23/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualties (part 2)
Chief Warrant Officer Paul J. Flynn, 28, of Whitsett, N.C...assigned to the 4th Squadron, 6th U.S. Air Cavalry Regiment, Fort Lewis, Wash...died Aug. 22 in Multaka, Iraq, of injuries suffered when their helicopter crashed

08/23/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualties (part 1)
Capt. Corry P. Tyler, 29, of Georgia...assigned to the 4th Squadron, 6th U.S. Air Cavalry Regiment, Fort Lewis, Wash...died Aug. 22 in Multaka, Iraq, of injuries suffered when their helicopter crashed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0hHXNqz4QY&mode=related&search= Hitler Ei

[Canukistani]

As long as this is only happening to furriners that mostly don't speak English and aren't on television everyday, the criminals in charge of this abomination don't really care. They are completely sociopathic.

Every time they say 'the surge is working' they need to be asked about this horrific story. If the MSM still had any journalists it would happen, but I'm not holding my breath.

[VOTER]

Stop these people at the borders and tell them Bush's

good news, "THE SURGE IS WORKING. GO HOME!"

[StillAmused]

Well, I suppose this is ONE way to get an area under control... remove all the people.

Sort of an expanded and improved Green Zone — empty, and encircled by a continuing, increasingly violent sectarian civil war, opportunistic jihadists from the surrounding hotbed nations and an infrastructure reduced to rubble.

"Escape From New York", turned on its head.

The neocons are such visionaries.

[godlessclif]

Refugees? Nah! I thought all those Iraqis were in tents because the USA was rebuilding their houses.

[researcher]

Maybe if enough of Iraqis leave their country we can have all that oil. God I get chills thinking about all that oil.

The surge is working if they leave and give us the oil so we can send most of it to Israel. they deserve it.

we liberated them and gave them democracy and they could not handle it so the oil is ours.

Thank you George bush for what you have done for America. We are on the verge of having the second largest oil reserves in the world. God is good.

We are a superpower we deserve that oil. Besides they don’t believe in Jesus why should they get all that wealth from that oil.
Signed
Just your average evangelical moral majority neo con

Ps I know Jesus was a neo con and a capitalist I don’t care what the liberals say. He taught might makes right read the bible I am sure it is in there.

[BuzzingAlong]

More than 2 million Iraqi refugees have fled from persecution and violence in Iraq, mostly to Jordan and Syria, but also to other countries. Another 2 million more are displaced within Iraq.

Scope of the Iraqi Refugee Crisis
- Total number of Iraqi refugees: At least 2.2 million, with another 2 million displaced inside Iraq

- Number Iraqis fleeing each day: 2,000

- Number Iraqi refugees in Jordan: 750,000

- Number Iraqi refugees in Syria: Between 1,000,000 and 1,500,000

- Number Iraqi refugees accepted by the United States in 2007: 190

- Number Iraqi refugees accepted by the U.S. who fled since 2003: less than 100

- Number Iraqis currently working for the US government according to State and Defense Department records: 118,000

- Number Iraqi translators killed according to L-3, the contractor that hires them for the US military: 257

http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/asylum/asylum_13_iraqi_refugees.asp

[NoFactsJustTruth]

This is but one TRUE legacy of the cheney and bushjr. White House.

SO many dead and refugee homeless Iraqis that had NOTHING to do with 9/11, NEVER attacked us, did nothing wrong - other than live on top of oil that American energy and the White House wanted ...oh, and perhaps they failed to get rid of a dictator that WE armed to the teeth.

To history and the rest of the world, we LET our nation become a 'neo-CON' empire with gestapo like leaders that are in league with big-business (perfect fascism by definition), stealing the natural resources of other nations that did nothing to us but are unable to stop us - in what could not be a more geopolitical and 'nazi-like' manner.

I believe most everyone that is NOT driven by greed WANTS to be proud of the country they live in, the same as one might feel about an immediate family member. You can put up with them stealing a little from you occasionally, it sometimes goes with the territory and you still love them, anyway. But you learn you can know the worst possible depths of shame and disappointment when that family member commits armed robbery and murder in broad daylight, in front of everyone you've ever known...


and yet STILL has an untouchable sanctuary IN YOUR HOME.


Sleep well...

[HumeSkeptic]

You are good. And people like you give me hope. Thank you.

[NoFactsJustTruth]

I am honored.