U.S. slow to meet needs, Iraq refugees say

[Barrett808]

Source: Baltimore Sun

U.S. slow to meet needs, refugees say
Despite substantial American contributions, displaced Iraqis' needs dwarf all efforts to aid them

By Matthew Hay Brown | [email protected]

DOUMA, Syria - Mustafa Hamad Rassoul doesn't see how his family can survive.

Back in Baghdad, the 55-year-old Iraqi Kurd says, the money he made running a clothing shop was more than enough to house and feed his two wives and 10 children. But here in Syria, where he came last year after being threatened by the Mahdi Army, the food and cash assistance his family receives doesn't last the month.

Rassoul blames the United States.

"America always talks about human rights," he says while waiting at the U.N. refugee registration center in this city outside Damascus. "They come and say they are liberating us. Let them find a place where I can live."

Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/world/iraq/bal-te.refugee29dec29,0,3079254.story

[shadowknows69]

1. That's because as many of you as possible are supposed to die

It makes the conquest a lot easier in the long run. We live in the United States of Monsters. I can't take it.

[CoffeeCat]

2. Um...you guys didn't hold up your end of the deal!

You were supposed to greet us as liberators and shower us with flowers and candy.

Dick Cheney said so.

No flowers for us. No needs met for you.

Sorry.