Posted on 04/29/2016 11:43:24 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
...These residents depicted a bleak picture of conditions inside the city, with prices soaring for some basic staples while other items have completely run out.
A 100-kilogram (220 pound) bag of flour now costs nearly 2 million Iraqi dinars ($1,550), compared to around 51,600 dinars ($40) in the past. Vegetable prices have risen by 500 percent and a 450-gram (16-ounce) can of powdered baby formula has jumped from 3,870 dinars ($3) to 144,000 dinars ($112).
Items like sugar and tea are simply not available at any price. Some residents, however, pointed out that families connected to IS members appear to suffer the least and receive extra provisions.
There is also a severe shortage in medicine mainly for chronic diseases such as high blood pressure and diabetes, according to a doctor at the city's hospital.
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Iraq is VERY unstable to say the least & obvious.
IOW, it’s up for grabs.
Could blame GWB and Obama for this ongoing mess, though blaming won’t help.
Iraq is no longer much in the mainstream news, since we got Trump and U.S. elections to keep us busy.
But, Iraq’s situation needs to be dealt with as swiftly as Saddam was overthrown.
Which people?
The ones colluding with ISIS or the ones who aren’t?
why, because we invaded them and left a disaster?
they deserved what they got under saddam, that’s for sure, if they weren’t willing to fight back.
but they deserve an unnecessary invasion, a civil war that had killed too many to count, attacks by al Qaeda and isis that would have not occurred had we left them alone and just enforced the no fly zone over the kurdish area.
i lost firefighter friends in 9/11, and through the fog of war i could not see i was being suckered as the VAST majority of suicide killers were from Saudi Arabia, and bush was hand in hand with one.
The whole bush family can go straight to hell. I’m not too worried about that though. It’s close to a done deal.
quite a broad statement, isn’t it. Which people?
I qualified that statement before.
So, repeat “The ones colluding with ISIS or the ones who aren’t?”
I hope they all die.
L
Tough shit.
Try fighting instead of copitulation.
Better dead than murdered by isis..
Islam’s latest iteration ISIS, aka JV - Jihad Varsity, is the baby of Barry and Hillary’s abortion of coalition presence in Iraq. The bloody aftermath in Mosul, Raaqa, Paris, Brussels, Molenbeek, San Bernadino, and future bloodbaths is on their hands. These facilitators of abortion/invasion/destabilization should be brought up on war crimes. Oh, wait…”the one” is president and the other is a wannabe…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y
Perhaps CONgre$$ or some other UNaccountable bureaucratic entity can get to the bottom of this. Heads should roll. Many will.
What about the “marsh Arabs?” Feel sorry for still?
“Tough shit.
Try fighting instead of copitulation.
Better dead than murdered by isis..”
Right! Your comment alone validates my thinking that Trump is right to say the U.S. should stay strictly in her own space than interfere in other countries, by proxy or directly (never mind the legacy elsewhere so far).
We can say tough shit to ISIS on American Soil First.
See # 12
tough #### about friends dying?
yeah, he’s a real hero for that statement.
i never mentioned capitulation, just too many old, hateful people on the board with an instinct to especially hate NYers
I apologize for previous posts. He is referring to Iraq and i’m terribly sorry.
I thought he meant “tough ###” on my friends who died.
I get too defensive over it.
I am very sorry. And approaching 50 quickly, I am the old person that I once joked around about in atlantic city :)
They are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Welcome to the Muslim dominated Middle East.
Try fighting instead of copitulation.
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Fight for what, the government who will treat them worse?
At least there is no Islamophobia over there.
Hey, don’t worry! These are only comments. Nothing earth-shattering. :)
I am very emotional both ways. When I feel attacked for no reason and I ATTACK for no reason.
I do feel very bad.
Thanks for being so understanding.
Bad memories of a bad day.
God Bless FRiend!
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