Yay!!! New world record!!!!!!
Uncategorized - - Posted on June, 19 at 12:13 am by Ken L
We live in exciting times. Today, according to the UN, ‘there are more displaced people in the world than at any time in history’. What a wonderful new benchmark for our enlightened times.
And guess where they come from? Well the leading countries just happen to be two that we attacked in wars of aggression and continue to help occupy. Not that the attacks and occupation have anything to do with the displaced people of course. Perish the thought. Columns of refugees fleeing invading armies are associated with nasty people like the Japanese in China and the Jerries in Poland. Not with nice Christian folk like us.
No, the displaced people must have crept away from their homes without us noticing, or maybe they just wanted to see the world. Whatever their motives, it is definitely not our problem and we have no obligation to do anything about it. So there.
There are 3.1 million Afghan refugees, mostly now in Pakistan and Iran and 2.3 million Iraqis, with many of them now in Syria and Jordan.
In addition there are also 2.4 million people still in Iraq who have been forced to leave their homes.
These 7.8 million people have been casually airbrushed out of the public discussion of Iraq and Afghanistan. The warlovers and their cheer squads have taken recently to pontificating smugly about how well things are going in Iraq, citing fewer deaths and injuries in sectarian attacks. Then they put their grave faces on and concede that things aren’t quite as good in Afghanistan and we’ll have to stick it out for the long haul.
As for nearly 8 million people who have lost their homes? Tough shit babe. It’s just the price of freedom.
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June 19th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Bolt recently was prasing the safer world we live in as a result of Bush’s foreign adventures because of some study that suggested that fatalities due terrorist attacks have delined since 2001 (although I remember 2001 being a bit of an abberation with a spike in deaths… not to mention that study doesn’t include the civilian deaths n iraq).
Anyway, I couldn’t help but think of how many violently angry people we might be producing in the millions above. Yet it seems like it’s a mind-boggling impossible task for some to picture these multitudes of people for what they are - people - rather than collateral damage or words in a news report… The blinding and deluding effects of ideology never cease to amaze me…
…and the endless sense that these people should be grateful for what we’ve given them? Yes Saddam was a brutal dictator, but if I had the roof over my head destroyed and family members possibly killed, it wouldn’t take rocket science for me to realise who is the greater of two evils.
June 19th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Lucky for some of them, and I mean SOME, as in a measly FEW, that when they finally get the chance to hit the land of milk & honey & work their grateful butts off…perhaps in a munitions factory many years down the road… at least they’ll get a minimum wage.
It varies state by state, and even has Congress lifting the bar in less than a hundred days, unlike the impeachment bill that remains in the hands of only a couple of heavy lifters…but it’s at the least, a minimum.
I’m sure it will make up for all the trauma. These Greencard refugees will be kept busy enuff, they won’t have time to get too depressed, nor get ill, nor reflect on the reasons as to why they are afraid to RETURN to their flourishing Democracy wearing their shrunken “I luv GW & Freedom” shirts.
I wonder if they’ll get letters from the refugee camps, from the relatives & friends who managed to avoid the bombs, backyard bullies & brave contractors…asking if they can send some money home, well, at least to the place so many Palestinians have learnt to call HOME…
And I wonder if those letters will read:
“And don’t forget to thank for us Mr. O’Reilly & Mr. Hannity, Mr. Limbaugh, Ms. Malkin, Mr. Hume, Mr. Krauthammer, Mr. Kristol & the leggy blonde…& please send some cartons of frozen freedom fries too”.
GUNS & GOD GONE GROTESQUE ‘GAIN
June 20th, 2008 at 12:28 am
7.8 million displaced Iraqis and Afghans? We haven’t had a refugee problem like this since the end of the Second World War.
Couldn’t we come up with an answer like last time and resettle the refugees in the Holy Land?
June 20th, 2008 at 12:31 am
You’ve got it wrong! They have the FREEDOM to flee their homes now. They always wanted to, but they were CHAINED to their hovels by Saddam and, err, that other guy. Now they are travelling to a bright new life in, I am sure, covered wagons.
Incidentally, my “are you a human?” verification code was pronounced “dickaboo”. I intend to put that word into a sentence at work today.