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Civilian Casualties in Iraq and the displaced, Kathy Kelly and Robert Naiman

by: Dori Smith, WHUS producer

Usage: Public Domain

Topics: Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Non Violence, over 1 million civilian casualties in Iraq since U.S. invasion of 2003, Robert Naiman, Just Foreign Policy, refugees, displaced, Iraq, Jordan, Turkey displaced

The Just Foreign Policy web site counter stands at 1,087,537 (one million eighty seven thousand five hundred and thirty seven) violent Iraqi deaths caused by the U.S.-led invasion of March 2003. Spokesperson Robert Naiman produces the Just Foreign Policy daily news summary and podcast. He has masters degrees in economics and mathematics and is co-author, with Mark Weisbrot, of a blog on Huffington Post. He joins us to explain the meaning of the new statistics and address the responsibility of the Bush administration.

Humanitarian and peace activist Kathy Kelly joins us from Chicago. She has just returned from Jordan where she has been assessing conditions for a growing population of some 750,000 Iraqi refugees registered with UNHCR. NGO Oxfam calls for decentralization of aid in Iraq for better, safer distribution.

Kelly has visited Iraq many times over the years and has long been calling on Americans and others to step in where governments are failing the Iraqi people. What types of direct action can be taken? We also discuss the possibility that Turkish citizens will be displaced by new fighting at the border with Iraq and look at ways to discuss the war with candidates.