Today, the world is finally taking the time to examine some of the shock waves battering humans by the decision of the Bush Administration to go to war under trumped up intelligence data. We have reached, as of today's announced count, 4 short of 4,000 American troops dead and nearly 40,000 wounded. One of the fallouts, next to the death of more than a million Iraqis and the 4 million who fled Iraq, is that even those who fled are not safe. Female prostitutes in Saudi Arabia are primarily Iraqi and many are as young as 13 with no other way to make a living. Rather than attempting a paraphrase of this article, I refer the reader to the link for the entire article.
The world, especially America, has ignored this crisis of refugees. Can we stand another response like Cheney's, "So?" the other day? Or is the tragedy which the world is seeing as a result of the ignorant planning for the Iraqi war to be filed under 'collateral damage'?
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