OlderAngelina Jolie in Iraq (Not Jordan)
Angelina Jolie is serving in Iraq, not Jordan as previously reported.
As goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, the 32-year-old do-gooder was on a mission to highlight the plight of Iraqi refugees in Baghdad on Thursday.
Jolie is promoting action to help the two million people displaced by Iraq’s war.
“There’s lots of goodwill and lots of discussion, but there seems to be just a lot of talk at the moment,” Jolie told CNN in an exclusive interview. “What happens in Iraq and how Iraq settles in the years to come is going to affect the entire Middle East. And a big part of what it’s going to affect, how it settles, is how these people are returned and settled into their homes and their community and brought back together and whether they can live together and what their communities look like.”
Angie was also seen boosting the spirits of American troops, dropping by their dining facility for lunch in the heavily guarded Green Zone, which houses the embassy and Iraqi government offices in central Baghdad.
Watch the video interview of Angelina Jolie at CNN.com.
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Ugh…Clooney strikes out and so does Madge…that Gucci/Kabbalah/celebrity clusterf*ck sounds obscene and frankly insincere….and I for one am sickened at any ‘charity event’ that invites a sexist homophobic nasty old blowhard GOAT like Trump who has a penchant for beating up on Angelina Jolie…I’m glad the UN was uneasy, let Madonna and her celebrity shallow egomaniacs raise their millions on their own..she’s just associating herself with the UN for legitimacy…she sounded so ridiculous in that speech..she’s like 99.9 percent ambition and 0.001 percent heart..sure she gets sh*t done sometimes..but it always feel phony as hell.
Felinelilly
I watched it also. I started crying also. I told myself stop crying what’s wrong with you? What was wrong? I was so proud of her and her courage. I was so happy for her and all people who dare to do something that is outside of their comfort zone. Peace
When this woman was taking a close up shot of Angelina behind this soldier who was talking about how he was studying Journalism back in Austin, Texas, she kept saying “Beautiful, beautiful” and I found that endearing.
CLINIQUA @ 02/07/2008 at 2:14 pm
Ugh…Clooney strikes out and so does Madge…that Gucci/Kabbalah/celebrity clusterf*ck sounds obscene and frankly insincere….and I for one am sickened at any ‘charity event’ that invites a sexist homophobic nasty old blowhard GOAT like Trump who has a penchant for beating up on Angelina Jolie…I’m glad the UN was uneasy, let Madonna and her celebrity shallow egomaniacs raise their millions on their own..she’s just associating herself with the UN for legitimacy…she sounded so ridiculous in that speech..she’s like 99.9 percent ambition and 0.001 percent heart..sure she gets sh*t done sometimes..but it always feel phony as hell.
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People can never smell the bull**** right under their noses. It would have just looked too despicable for her to snatch up a kid like her newest diamond ring, so she had to back track and try and do something for the poor boy’s country.
Let’s all attack Angelina and so on and none of the other bull******** celebs, but the one true humanitarian who was doing it all before it was “popular” and “cute”
Quick Question
Where do pregnant Iraqi women go to? Surely they don’t stay in the country…I mean I bet the moment the pregnancy test comes out positive, they are immediately shipped somewhere else…no? I’m just asking because I’m trying to understand where the hoopla over AJ being pregnant and going to Iraq is coming from. As we speak… AJ, who is visiting for 3-4days is 100 times safe than the Iraqi women who live there.
If AJ is indeed pregnant on this trip…then I say bravo to her. Apart from the fact that it shows she’s not your average lazy bones pregnant woman, she’s also showing that when you genuinely want to help others, you don’t do it only when it’s convenient for you. When there’s a call to arms to help someone in bad situation, you heed that call. (Okay, that came off a little Brave-hearty, no? Ah, who cares…AJ is a brave heart or is it has a brave heart? Hmm)
ThankYou
Ever heard of a little country called Benin? Yeah, that’s where my researching doing grandmama lives.
African Girl @ 02/07/2008 at 2:47 pm
Quick Question
Where do pregnant Iraqi women go to?
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Oh dont you know, AG? Pregnant Iraqi women arent white so their babies wont be white and so dont matter.
Remember, only the white Jolie-Pitts matter, so pregnant Angie means another white Jolie-Pitt is on the way, who must be cared for differently from the nonwhite Jolie-Pitts. And so, Angie is a b*tch for putting her white unborn baby in harm’s way by going to Iraq.
Got it?
Thanks for all the threads on AJ trip to Iraq Just Jared. Thanks for the video links. It was inspiring and informative watching the CNN video. Thanks for all the articles, links and pictures. Peace to all.
She looks tired–I hope she doesn’t wear herself out. She’s so passionate and knowledgeable about this subject.
We love you, Angie!
awesome!!!!!!
CMAR
…since I’m not a native speaker, I’m not sure if you are being ironic with the white baby-important / non-white baby -who cares explanation in your post.
I see that most of the people critizicing the trip are of course people who don’t like AJ, and use every excuse for bashing, even in things that have a good objective, such as a humanitarian mission, where the point is to help the people who are in conflict zones.
I think that AJ is doing the right thing, if she is pregnant or not she made her choice to go and visit anyway. I’m sure that she knows and has witnessed how difficult are the lives of people in those war conditions , after natural disasters and such, nad therefore she feels that traveling while pregnant (if she is) is just something personal , that does not impede the mission. As AG points out, there are regnant women there too, is not freakin’ Mars or anything :)
BTW I’m a high school teacher in a 3rd world country we may have not all the services that in first countries people have, we have crime, etc. but seriously we talk about the recent problems tha the US has had in highschools and universities with shootings and hate crimes. No country is perfect, and there is a risk in everything we do. Even at home we can suffer life threatening accidents, so if part of your work involves traveling and the result of your work is such as good cause as this tht AJ does, for goodnes, why do not go? you would be helping people who have nothing not even a place to call home.
OMG, is she safe there? I hope so.
GOD BLESS THE JOLIE PITTS
Good job Angie, for going to Iraq, in the combat zone, with danger lurking around in every corner nothwithstanding.
Such a brave and selfless act for her to go on behalf of people, some of whom she will never know or meet. She’s a celebrity who puts her God-given talent to good use. She’s not preening on the red carpet for the photo op, going to every event just to be seen, nor shopping for the latest hot trend with price tags that equal some people’s monthly salary.
Angelina Jolie is a go-getter and powerhouse for the voiceless.
:O thank JJ
Did she said that she is celebrating important days of her adoptive children. Well today is Pax happy Tet, she should be at home with him to celebrate his new year.
For job reasons people have to do sometime small sacrifices, I guess they have plenty of time to make up for not being around. Anyway he is a small kid and he won’t necessarily whine all day if something was not “picture perfect” unlike others like the above poster
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You will post just about anything to bash Angie, won’t you? Your life must be one pathetic nothingness, just to be typing vitriol on a computer.
I think Angelina is a beautiful, intelligent and very devoted not only to her family but the families of the world. Why would she go to Iraq if she’s pregnant? quite simple, she has a job to do. She has families depending on the assistance she may well bring to them. She puts everyone else first. It’s easier for people to dislike her for whatever reasons that suit them. Easier than looking at a devoted Spouse, Mother and Humanitarian and think.. maybe all of these qualities are just the tip of the iceberg, that Brad sees in her. Have you noticed the difference in Brad, what he is currently involved in, supporting and building homes for the victims of Katrina in New Orleans.. If America has a pair of sweethearts, Brad and Angelina are ours. We need to be proud of their accomplishments. We also need to be proud and very protective of their children. Stop going to websites that boast the childrens photos, stop buying rag magazines that have the children posted on the covers. And start bashing these magazine editors when they allow stories to be publish that are untrue and exploit the children.
i Love you Brad Pitt
Bkooklyn NY,
im so proud of u angie, i love u so much and i like to be ur right hand in iraq. im engineer and i can do that and proud of doing it. may god bless u and protect u.
im so proud of u angie, i love u so much and i like to be ur right hand in iraq. im engineer and i can do that and proud of doing it. may god bless u and protect u.
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