Angelina Jolie: We Have a Moral Obligation to Help Iraqi Refugees

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Worth repeating it again. So SPOT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Way to go Angie. I am so proud of you and what you are doing. Keep up the good work. The people on here that are calling Angie names, are people that don’t matter. Angelina Jolie is going to places and helping people that some of these people on this site would never set their foot on, or even interact with some of these people that Angie meet on her humanitarian trips, cause some of the people on this site, think they are better than those people, who have no homes to go too, no foods, no clothes, no water etc, but here we have someone that is willing to take the risk and go to these places and bring awareness of the plight of these forgotten refugees and people on here have the audacity to criticize her, let me see you all going to the places she has been to and continue to go too, then maybe I will listen to what you pathetic people have to say, otherwise shut the hell up about this woman and the work she is doing.

Angelina Jolie have met with heads of states; the US top General in Iraq, Presidents, people who are important and people who really matter, and people who listen to her, who respect her, and who are working together with her to help the refugees that are displaced all over the world, those are the people that matter, not a bunch of idiots on a blog site that have no life and only purpose in life is to hate on people they don’t know.

BRAVO TO ANGELINA JOLIE. GREAT & WELL WRITTEN ARTICLE. THANKS FOR BRINGING TO LIGHT THE PLIGHT OF THE REFUGEES IN IRAQ AND AROUND THE WORLD

# 376 estelle @ 02/28/2008 at 8:42 pm

Estelle, when I go to the gym after work I usually get home about 7PM and I leave work at 5PM

Brad looks so young in the new pics!! How is that even possible??

And i love that Brad is always with his family!! Yeah, Brad and Angie are never apart from each other!!

Great posts, Alexanderina and Orchid!

Love that new pic of Brad - he looks so happy, strutting down the street with his coffee thinking “MY woman is published in The Washington Post. Yes, that’s right, MY woman. I am so damn proud of her”.

WTF I just heard Ryan Seacrest say that Brad Pitt was going to be on American Idol !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NOOOOOOO BRAD

rachelsun @4:56 PM
Agree with you 100%
Colin Powell ” You break it, you own it” He tried to stop the decision of going to war in Iraq but our wonderful/wise president did not heed his advice and congress followed right behind him.

Ryan Fec*screst just announced:
Brad Pitt is going to be on American Idol when they do American Idol gives back! Just annouced!!!! All the girls started screaming. They are dong this to increase their ratings! You want ratings increased bring Brad or Angie on.

On American Idol Ryan just mentioned tha Brad among other celebs would be part of the show…..Thy are doing some sort of charity show like they did last year and I think that’s how he will be involved.

# 383 coalharbourqt @ 02/28/2008 at 8:55 pm

Hiya Coal, how are you? He looks so darn hot & sexy. I love that man :)

probably it is another fake rumor like the dell commercial.

“Today’s humanitarian crisis in Iraq — and the potential consequences for our national security — are great. Can the United States afford to gamble that 4 million or more poor and displaced people, in the heart of Middle East, won’t explode in violent desperation, sending the whole region into further disorder?”

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She was right.!
Refugees camp full of frustrated and desperate persons are nest for new recruit of terrorist.
Admire Angie’s more for her courage in speaking out. She really doesn’t need to do that, since nowaday, it seems some people prefer dumb, selfish, golddigger celebrities than social conscious and intelligent one.

“To whom much is given much is expected”

Very proud of Angelina Jolie ~Mother Humanitarian Actress

# 231 dina #1 @ 02/28/2008 at 5:10 pm OT, but what isn’t nowadays?

2nd OT, Valarie Bertelnella was on Oprah, didn’t watch but heard about it, and other talk shows. Wasn’t she once considered an All American Girl? From her own mouth she has admitted that while married to Eddie Van Hallen? she committed adultry and did drugs. No outcry?

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This is why I laugh when trolls scream moral outrage. Their reaction has nothing to do with the actions of the person. Just who the person is that is doing the action. Oh BTW I just saw on ET or the Insider that VB has been offered a tv talk show.

# 84 Francesca @ 02/28/2008 at 3:31 pm

MyEyeisonu,
You mention Cuba….my mother is from Cuba. My mother came to this country after Castro took over….after he and his government stripped her and her family of all their educational degrees, wordly goods, sentimental items, and basic necessities like food and shelter. However, he was not able to take their pride and their will to have control over their own actions. She receieved no assistance from anyone not that she would have accepted it if she had. She couldn’t speak English and she had less then what would equal three American dollars when she arrived. She took responsibilty for herself and didn’t wait for others to give her handouts. She made no excuses and expected none in return. She became a medical doctor and has helped many people with all aspects of their lives. She is just one of many people in my family of “displaced”, “trampled on”, “impoverished”, etc etc that picked themselves up and made sure that they never had to take from others to survive. They didn’t wait to get helped. They helped themselves.
Because of the examples I have seen my entire life of people who not only say but do, I am less likely to be impressed by people who just “say” without the “do”. Like I said, kudos to Angelina but she accepted an important job. She wants to be considered credible and so she should come up with real solutions instead of just happy endings.

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Good for your mother. Not to belittle her accomplishments, but the plain fact of the matter is that she LEFT a war-torn country and came to a land of freedom and opportunity NOT the other way around.

Frankly, it’s not Angelina’s job to come up with solutions. There are people who’s careers and lives have been devoted to that endeavor. They made the mess, they should clean it up. It is morally imperative to the survival of this country for us to not be seen aroud the world as marauding despots who’ll spring military action on foreign countries and not stay the course and see the people who’s lives we’re claiming to free settled back into a decent life.

Your mother escaped a horrible situation not of her making. Are you saying the people of Iraq deserve less than that? They didn’t ask for the U.S. to come in and “save” them. Bush did that all by his lonesome and when he did so he made it our moral obligation to see that those people have the opportunity for a better future. The way things stand now, that’s not going to happen unless we pony up and maintain some type of military presence in Iraq. Sure, we all want the troops to come up alive and well, but the simple reality that people had better face is that is not only NOT going to happen and shouldn’t happen until some progress has been made in restoring these people’s lives.

And for the record - I’m not advocating we stay in Iraq indefinitely. But the fact is…Dubya stepped in a big steaming pile when he started this war and for us to walk away and leave Iraq in a shambles is simply irresponsible and short-sighted. We’re a country that relies far too heavily on imports and OPEC. We don’t exist in an economic bubble anymore. Our economy is tied to the world and all the tax rebate/economic stimulation packages in the world aren’t going to fill our cars with gas or keep our homes filled with Japanese big screen televisions. If we walk away from Iraq now the backlash from the rest of the world will most likely be swift and merciless, especially from other Middle Eastern nations where religious zealots are just sitting around waiting for a reason to have another 9/11. And somehow I doubt if that happened we’d get too much sympathy from countries like France & Germany who opposed the war in the first place.

Okay…I’m off my political soapbox now. I spent way too many years as a poli sci major. This kind of stuff gives me bad college flashbacks…