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Angelina Jolie Goes to Iraq
People ^ | 8-28-07

Posted on 08/28/2007 10:44:28 AM PDT by STARWISE

Angelina Jolie is in Iraq to witness firsthand the humanitarian crisis there, the United Nations Refugee Agency UNHCR has announced.

The actress and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, 32, flew from New York to Syria on Monday. In Damascus, she visited a UNHCR registration center and spend hours talking to Iraqi refugees in their homes.

Tuesday's journey took her to Iraq to meet with 1,200 refugees camped out in a makeshift outpost at the border, because they are unable to leave the country. She also witnessed dozens of Iraqis crossing into Syria.

"I have come to Syria and Iraq to help draw attention to the humanitarian crisis and to urge governments to increase their support for UNHCR and its partners," Jolie said in a statement. "My sole purpose in both countries is to highlight the plight of those uprooted by the war in Iraq."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: angelina; chatroompiece; iraq; iraqis; jolie; refugees; un; unhcr
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Let's see if she goes to Anbar and the places where hopeful improvements are happening.
1 posted on 08/28/2007 10:44:30 AM PDT by STARWISE
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To: STARWISE

Geez, think she could at least visit with some of the troops while there?


2 posted on 08/28/2007 10:45:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Rummyfan

I cannot stand these people...stand a post or get out.


3 posted on 08/28/2007 10:46:46 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: STARWISE
Well, at least she did not give a sympathetic portrayal of the terrorists in her recent movie "A Mighty Heart" (she played the widow of Daniel Pearl.

But I still think she's a wacko.

4 posted on 08/28/2007 10:46:49 AM PDT by what's up
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To: STARWISE

5 posted on 08/28/2007 10:48:09 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (This country feels the same when Congress is in session as when a baby gets hold of a hammer.)
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To: STARWISE

Delusions of grandeur maybe?


6 posted on 08/28/2007 10:48:25 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Rummyfan

Nope... she can’t visit the troops while in Iraq. You see, the troops are the oppressors of the Iraqi Freedom Fighters. All they do is kill people indiscriminantly.

</sarc>


7 posted on 08/28/2007 10:49:03 AM PDT by navyguy (Some days you are the pidgeon, some days you are the statue.)
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To: what's up
she'll recite any lines given to her on a page as long as you pay her market rate. actors make their living impersonating other people.

she'd play condi rice if the price was right.

8 posted on 08/28/2007 10:49:19 AM PDT by thefactor
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To: Rummyfan
From the article:

Besides her activities for UNHCR, Jolie also met privately with American troops and other multi-national forces in the region.

9 posted on 08/28/2007 10:49:34 AM PDT by what's up
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To: STARWISE

This mental midget wants to grab headlines.


10 posted on 08/28/2007 10:49:59 AM PDT by Dante3
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To: thefactor
she'll recite any lines given to her on a page as long as you pay her market rate

Well, her boyfriend Pitt produced the movie and it didn't make very much so I don't know how much she got paid for that one.

11 posted on 08/28/2007 10:51:05 AM PDT by what's up
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To: STARWISE

Well, gee. The Democrats finally came up with a way to win people over to their viewpoint.

Angelina will come home and say we are losing and Iraq’s misery is all our fault, and even the smartest Republican men will now buy it because “she’s pretty, so everything she says must be true”. Where is a good rolls eyes smiley I can use.


12 posted on 08/28/2007 10:51:13 AM PDT by USMCWife6869 (Godspeed Sand Sharks.)
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To: STARWISE

That’s nice. Are we all supposed to try to guess the name of the orphan she brings home?


14 posted on 08/28/2007 10:51:49 AM PDT by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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To: STARWISE
On her next trip she will travel to Fantasy Island to visit her fan base...Just like the U.N., all symbolism, no substance.


15 posted on 08/28/2007 10:51:50 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: what's up

she must have owed him a big favor. maybe he is letting her adopt a new kid?


16 posted on 08/28/2007 10:52:25 AM PDT by thefactor
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Did Angie go to Iraq under Saddam and Sons?

Oops, I forgot, she was busy making out with her brother, numerous women, and wearing a vile of blood around her neck.

(but that’s what commie-vampires do!)

17 posted on 08/28/2007 10:52:57 AM PDT by roses of sharon
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He's adopting them too.

I think they're going to be sorry when all those kids hit their teenage years.

18 posted on 08/28/2007 10:53:50 AM PDT by what's up
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
Delusions of grandeur maybe?

Delusions of relevancy..............

19 posted on 08/28/2007 10:54:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)
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To: Red Badger

I prefer “Irrelevancy on parade”


20 posted on 08/28/2007 10:58:42 AM PDT by Hoffer Rand
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