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Somalia: Orphanage closures render thousands of children homeless
Integrated Regional Information Networks - UN Office Information Service ^
| Thu, Feb 5, 2004
| IRIN
Posted on 02/14/2004 10:10:16 AM PST by jafco
This article, from a UN information agency, reports on how the US declared a Saudi organization had terrorist links. This kept the organization from sponsoring an orphanage in Somalia. Now, about 3,000 orphans face homelessness on the streets of Mogadishu.
Is this a case of children getting hurt when the US paints with too broad a brush stroke, OR, a case of an evil organization being kept from running a breeding ground for future anti-US terrorists?
Your thoughts?
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: america; children; homeless; money; orphanage; somalia; states; united
I think it's a chance for the US to "turn the other cheek" in Somalia and show the youth of that country that America is not without compassion. 3000 orphans X $2US/day X 30 days = $180,000/month. Certainly not a lot of money for the US government, and for $2 US/day, every Somali kid would want to be an orphan! Line the walls with pro-US scenes and slogans. Fly in politicians for child-hugging photo-ops. Give them Nike's, Pepsi and Big Mac's, have Britney do a concert. We tried controlling Somalia with guns, now let's try the other American way...with capitalism.
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posted on
02/14/2004 10:10:17 AM PST
by
jafco
To: jafco
This just might be the project for the Clinton Family!
Send them all over to help - Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton.
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posted on
02/14/2004 10:14:05 AM PST
by
malia
(BUSH & CHENEY 2004)
To: jafco
welcome to FR... I think.
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posted on
02/14/2004 10:14:12 AM PST
by
cyborg
To: jafco
Statement: "Somalia: Orphanage closures render thousands of children homeless"
Response:Don't worry. They will all be brought to the U.S.A. They will be given taxpayer funds, registered to vote, elected to office-where they will continue on the dole, retire on taxpayer pensions, die go to heaven and sit on the right hand of God. You serfs will pay in this world and in the world to come.
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posted on
02/14/2004 10:19:13 AM PST
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(Further, the statement assumed)
To: jafco
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posted on
02/14/2004 10:40:23 AM PST
by
jriemer
(We are a Republic not a Democracy)
To: jafco
I'm sure that there are many American families that would take these children. I would take a four year old easily. If all of us could pay only airfare for these kids, I'm sure we could find them all homes.
Especially knowing our former president did nothing while their parents were murdered.
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posted on
02/14/2004 10:57:05 AM PST
by
netmilsmom
(Don't put a question mark where God put a period.)
To: jafco
Good project for Jesse Jackson and his Rainbow/PUSH coalition. Maybe he can do something worthwhile for a change.
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posted on
02/14/2004 11:06:48 AM PST
by
Rabid Dog
(formerly Rabid Republican)
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