Madfloridian's Journal - Civilians fleeing Baghdad to Najaf....lacking food, water, supplies.

We have done this. We have caused a humanitarian crisis on an unbelievable scale.

We declared citizens of Fallujah enemy combatants if they remained in their homes. A military spokesman said there was a similar plan for Sadr City, Baghdad....if needed. We have become a nation that invades a country that was no danger. We have had the utter unbelievable nerve to declare citizens enemy combatants for remaining in their homes.

Civilians are fleeing Sadr City just as they left Fallujah.

Prior to the second siege in November, its citizens were given two choices: leave the city or risk dying as enemy insurgents.

..."...."What of the estimated 50,000 residents who did not leave Falluja? The US military suggested there were a couple of thousand insurgents in the city before the siege, but in the end chose to treat all the remaining inhabitants as enemy combatants.

Overwhelmed Camps Running Short on Basic Humanitarian Necessities

About 9000 Iraqi families fled to the central city most of them from Baghdad, where they search for safety in camps for displaced people according to official sources from Najaf. The sources said that the increasing numbers of displaced people who are converging to the city's camps will soon suffer from a shortage of food and water supplies

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NAJAF, IRAQ: An Iraqi displaced boy drinks water from a tap at a camp for displaced people in the central Shiite holy city of Najaf, 20 July 2007.

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NAJAF, IRAQ: A displaced Iraqi woman cooks in a mud oven in a camp for
displaced people in the central Shiite holy city of Najaf, 20 July 2007.

And things are not going well in Baghdad...detainees, mostly men being held in deplorable conditions with little access to legal help. The blog says the US is concerned about conditions. I say the US is the occupier, the decider....it is time to stop blaming the Iraqis for it.
Just quit blaming the people of the country we invaded without cause. Just stop it.

Overcrowding Creates Deplorable Conditions

Nearly a thousand "detainees" are held in a series of rooms at the detention center, in an area intended to temporarily hold 300. Many have been held for months without trials or hearings. A human-rights observer employed by the U.S. government has repeatedly complained about the conditions, with problems including overcrowding, intermittent meals, backed up sewage, and long-term detentions in a short-term facility, but conditions have remained the same.

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BAGHDAD, IRAQ - JULY 19: Iraqi men sit in a crowded room on the floor in a Iraqi government holding pen July 19, 2007 at Forward Operating Base Justice, a joint US-Iraqi base in Baghdad, Iraq.

We the citizens of America have every right to be angry at what our leaders have done to other human beings in our name.