Bending the Third Rail

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Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Let's Have A Meeting!

I guess it's better than doing absolutely nothing .... maybe:

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush will meet Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Jordan next week with grim new statistics showing record numbers of Iraqis were killed last month and many more fled the country.

A U.N. report put civilian deaths in October at 3,709 -- 120 a day and up from 3,345 in September. Nearly 420,000 moved to other parts of Iraq since the February bombing of a Shi'ite shrine in Samarra triggered a surge in sectarian attacks.

It said as well as those displaced within Iraq, nearly 100,000 people were fleeing to Syria and Jordan every month -- proportionally equivalent to a million Americans emigrating each month, depriving the U.S. economy of a city the size of Detroit.

I know what to do. Let's have a meeting!

What in the hell could these two guys, who are totally bankrupt as leaders, possibly do about this situation. Note: these statistics are the reported numbers, not the actual numbers. Who knows how many bodies are buried or "disposed of" without official knowledge. Remember that Lancet study about hundreds of thousands of deaths in Iraq .... ?

Ah ... nevermind. Nothing to see here, move along.

Written at 9:07 AM by Greyhair.

1 comments

1 Comments:

Lynne said...

First rule of meetings: when all is said and done there's a lot more said than done.

9:30 AM

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