Helping Iraqi Children

krizon

krizon

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I have a great fondness for the tiny Gulf island of Bahrain, especially since it was within 10 minutes' flying time from Saudi (prior to the building of the Gulf Causeway), and could visit friends and Mum there easily. It's one of the friendliest of the Gulf states and I'll always recommend a visit. I like to see what's going on via Gulf Daily News online and today it mentions that 50 poorly Iraqi kids will be flown to the island, accompanied by a family member, to receive much-needed medical attention. The king is paying for their accommodation, air fares, and treatment himself.

The children's problems range from heart and hearing difficulties, neurological problems, to third-degree burns from terrorist bombs.

Bahrain has well-trained and staffed hospitals with specialist facilities, while one of the Iraqi parents said that Iraq's doctors were fleeing the country due to the terrible conditions there. Another said that some people were preferring to simply die at home, rather than risk another person's life in trying to get them safely to a hospital for treatment, and that hospitals, schools and even orphanages were now being targetted by internal terrorism.

It's a kind gesture and if more Arab countries would follow suit, it could only help but foster good future relations between what are often disparate attitudes and customs.
 
Iraq is in a desperate state and I don't believe the US or our government when they say that the majority of Iraqs population are happier since the downfall of Saddam.
What a pity Mugabe has no control over supplying oil.
 
However our leaders are not being candid with us. Oil has been a major US concern about Iraq in internal and unpublicized documents, since the start of this Administration, and indeed earlier. As Michael Renner has written in Foreign Policy in Focus, February 14, 2003, "Washington's War on Iraq is the Lynchpin to Controlling Persian Gulf Oil."

K, If you think that the war was motivated by the control of oil then you would have to say that the plight of the children is one of the consequences and if Mugabe had oil under his feet then he would have been taken to task as Saddam was.

I think the weapons of mass destruction threat was a smokescreen.
 
Except that, as I've pointed out, the Iraqi children aren't all casualties of war. They have a variety of ailments for which Bahrain will treat them, gratis, due to the Iraqi hospitals being targets of the insurgents. I just thought that Bahrain was due a nod of appreciation.

I'm well aware of the deceptions behind the invasion of Iraq, and I'm also well aware that any country which is governed by a genocidal maniac won't be invaded by the USA, Britain, or anyone else for that matter, unless there is some valuable material gain for them. I believe that we've made our positions clear on where our opinions lie on such matters more times than Dubya has said 'folks'.
 
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