There's another surge in Iraq that the president is not talking about. An outbreak of cholera is spreading across Iraq and the numbers are alarming. The World Health Organization says 14 Iraqis have died from cholera so far, but the threat is grave.
Already, cholera has been confirmed in 9 out of Iraq's 18 provinces. In Kirkuk Province, in northern Iraq, 500 cases of cholera have been confirmed in just the last six days. Across Iraq, WHO has confirmed over 3,300 cases of cholera, and 30,000 Iraqis have fallen sick.
As a medical doctor, let me explain that cholera is caused by human waste contaminating the water supply. In other words, the sewage treatment plants that we were supposed to fix, the sewage treatment plants that worked pre-war, are not working post-surge. And innocent Iraqis are suffering and dying as a result.
Cholera is the latest example of a failed war. Of course, these new Iraqi civilian casualties will not be counted by the President as he tries to convince the American people that they are wrong to want to leave Iraq and he is right in his intention to keep America at war in Iraq for the rest of his term, and long into the future.
Instead of talking about the surge, the president should be talking about the scourge of cholera and how it could have been prevented, if only he did not invade Iraq in the first place, or continue to evade the truth now.
Are there guilty Iraqis who should die from cholera?
NO BUILDING CODES TO MEET!
SEWER CONNECTION OR SEPTIC TANK CONNECTIONS NOT REQUIRED.
$72 MILLION DOLLAR building setting UNINHABITABLE with HUMAN WASTE DRIPPING FROM THE CEILINGS.
California Contractor Built $ 5 million dollar building for $72 Million Dollars and wont fix the plumbing.
LOVE THOSE CAPITALIST.
Thank you for making this public - or trying. Our media continues to fail on so many fronts. We get the important news about Brittany, Hilary Clinton's laugh and Rudy Guiliani's phone calls, but thousands dying because of our ineptitude is barely a blip on the national radar.
Why haven't we Impeached Bush and Cheney? What is wrong with us?
NOT!
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what they had in mind, but it hasn't quite
worked out, mainly in my view because Rumsfeld
wanted to fight a 'boutique' war, with smart
bombs and so forth, rather than just do things
the RIGHT way from the get-go. What was the 'right way'? Frankly, WWII-style, which
was full occupation until the Marshal Plan took
hold. No one in the german citizenry had access
to ANYthing like a weapon, let alone cars, and the rebuilding got started under such conditions. Germany today is smack-dab in the middle of the EU and their current trend of prosperity and modernity, Iraq is by all appearances on its' way back to the stone age...
All the greedy people rushed in before peace
was established, and now it's a roiling mess,
according to the news...
IT BOGGLES THE FUCKING MIND.
Indeed, thank you for posting this, Rep. McDermott.
Electricity.
Oil production.
He didn't lose a city to a levee failure.
He didn't lose a major highway bridge to neglect.
Etc.
And don't blame bush for the bridge either. The state had been directing federal tranportation funds to mass transit instead of fixing bridges.
Hey, look...environmental agendas were at the root of both failures. Interesting, eh?
I am in total agreement with Give Peace A Chance . . . America has committed a heinous crime against the Iraqi people .. . and all for oil . . .
HALLIBURTON: We're working on it!
Electricity?
HALLIBURTON: We're working on it!
Elevators?
HALLIBURTON: We're working on it!
HALLIBURTON: IT KEEPS ROLLING IN!
Sounds like a Halliburton situation to me.
The $190 billion 'surge' that Bush has demanded of our flaccid Congress will only continue to subsidize these disaster capitalist vampires.
Google for it and you will find it already reported upon by news and health organizations outside of the U.S.
Blocked imports of Chlorine to add to the drinking water has dealt a huge blow to the health of the Iraqi population.
The U.S. blocks it as it "may" be [in the minds of the U.S] aka Blackwater and the Mercenary Army contribute a component to bomb making.
Better to let Cholera run wild than take a remote chance ....
The good ole USofA
You want old -- and lethal -- news? Google "al Qaqaa": 380 TONS of high explosives stolen from under our noses.
In September it is 130 degrees in Iraq.
When the tempeture drops watch attack sky rocket. They already are in rising in Afgainstan.
As a fellow physician I will be writing to my congressman and your friend and colleague Rep. Pat Murphy(PA-8th)(The ONLY Iraq war veteran in your 110th congress) about this yet one more failure of the Bush Iraq invasion misadventure.
This disease can spread rapidly and the vaccine is not the best as you know
What has Bush wrought upon this nation? And for that matter OUR nation?
I cannot bear to watch some of your Democratic colleagues weaken on an early pullout. God Bless You,Sir.
Be Well,
Dr. Rick Lippin
Http://medicalcrises.blogspot.com
Also If Bush Senior had "pulled out early" from Babs maybe "W" would never have been conceived?
Bad joke
Rick Lippin