700 families in Samarra driven from their homes...no aid available yet.

[madfloridian]

I gather this happened to more families when we bombed the hell out of Fallujah.
They had to run from their cities into the desert just like the people in Samarra.
What are we doing? We just keep on running people out of their cities with no aid available.

What are we doing? I believe someday people will have to held to account for this invasion. We may never leave, but there will be no victory there.


http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/633fb060ca280e5379fc5d914e5471ce.htm

BAGHDAD, 19 March (IRIN) - Hundreds of families have fled the city of Samarra, some 120 km northwest of the capital, Baghdad, after US coalition and Iraqi forces launched the biggest air offensive in the country since 2003.

"We have sent volunteers from the disaster department to monitor the situation and we are preparing ourselves for an emergency," said Ferdous al-Abadi, spokesperson for the Iraqi Red Crescent Society (IRCS) in Baghdad.

IRCS volunteers working in the Salahuddine governorate, where Samarra is located, said more than 700 families had left the city and no one had received aid so far.

"We have informed the IRCS's office in the capital about the critical situation and they are going to send a convoy to the area. The main requirements are blankets, tents, food supplies, potable water and medicine," explained Ahmed Tikrit, a volunteer for the IRCS and resident of Samarra.

This paragraph stuck with me. This is my country doing this in my name, with the support of many in my party. I am angry, and I am very bitter.

"When they started to hit our city I didn't take anything. I just took my family and ran like hell. We don't have anything to eat or wear," urged Barakat Muhammad, a resident and father of five in Samarra."

But it gets worse:

""We have run out of supplies and if the operation continues we need urgent surgical materials and pain killers to offer treatment to the innocent victims," Dr Ibraheem Mahmoud, of the emergency department at the local hospital in Samarra, said."