What's a little cholera when you've got all that FREEDOM?
"Cholera Epidemic Infects 7,000 People in Iraq"
What else can we inflict on those poor souls .. maybe we could also give them some "special blankets"...
And what are the chances of US soldiers catching it?
From the New York Times: BAGHDAD -- A cholera epidemic in northern Iraq has infected approximately 7,000 people and could reach Baghdad within weeks as the disease spreads through the country’s decrepit and unsanitary water system, Iraqi health officials said Tuesday.[..]"
So .. aside from all the violence brought on by the civil war, the religious sectarian strife and resistance to the occupation .. along with sporadic electricity, children drinking from mud puddles, a crippled economy, Al Qaeda in their midst, and a host of other ills, the Iraqis can now add cholera to their list of woes?
Don't forget that 75 percent of doctors, nurses and pharmacists have fled Iraq. If you were a doctor, how would like to hopscotch over IED's and dodge bullets as you travel around an incredibly dangerous city, finding and caring for the sick, or even taking away the dead?
With the infrastructure destroyed it was only a matter of time before this happened. Yes, we can blame Paul Bremer .. but also the insurgents who shoot at us as we try to rebuild water treatment plants, or blow them up when we're finished.
Meanwhile, the US and their Iraqi partners have cut off crucial supplies of chlorine because insurgents use it to make bombs, endangering many thousands. Cholera is water-borne plague.
What a mess we've made. I am ashamed of my country because we have so little there in resources for the PEOPLE, from electricity to healthcare to basics like food.
What the hell is 10 billion being spent on!
We need a middle class mother to audit the damn books .. someone who knows how to control costs.
Let me segue into just how much money IS wasted. Remember the billions Bremer couldn't account for? It's unbelievable as to the depth of corruption and crime and theft from the White House on down.
Read all about it here -- "The Great Iraq Swindle" .. Conservative Pat Buchanan even linked it.
"How is it done? How do you screw the taxpayer for millions, get away with it and then ride off into the sunset with one middle finger extended, the other wrapped around a chilled martini? Ask Earnest O. Robbins -- he knows all about being a successful contractor in Iraq. [..]"
No real American who loves this country could ever read the above article and not have their eyes opened to the biggest scandal and corruption committed by a White House in our history.
There's a book out now - “Dead Certain” - in which Bush tells biographer Robert Draper, "I cry a lot."
Don't we all?
