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

Yeah it’s all about being rational and not trying to be a PSUEDO DIPLOMAT or get an EGO BoOST from meeting with heads of state.

Thank you for reading my posts. this is common sense and not bashing anyone.

Clooney will never be as cool as Jolie.

Angelina carried-out her role to the UNCHR…she visited and eyewitnessed, she made inquiries and interviewed soldiers and refugees, made assessment, summized, wrote, reported and had published this entire mission…JOB WELL DONE!

For the small minded and shallow people who would actually think Angie would be afraid to confront x, please remind them that this is a lady who has traveled to Iraq, Darfur, Sudan, Serra Leone, and other hell on earth places. X is not even a **** in comparsion to these and the other places she has gone. Angie and Brad have risen so far above their petty bullsh*t. That is why the don’t need to respond to everything that is printed and said about them. As Angie has said in the past, “Those people who know me, know what I am about.” And believe me it is not about Ted C. and the other jealous people who consistently try to bring her down. She met with the two highest ranking people in Iraq. How many people, ordinary people not those in the State Dept, etc., can say that? Angelina is not a dummy. She is intelligent, and thoughtful. And least we forget independent. Peace

I find this woman more and more fascinating each day!
She is so darn interesting and so fearless.
How did she get to be this way?
There is nobody like her in all of Hollywood.

estelle @ 02/28/2008 at 3:46 pm THANK YOU ANGELINA JOLIE!!!!!!!!!!!!….Angie did her job well, now even the trolls know about refugees and issues related to internally displaced people…tsik..tsk tsk…

Look Angie doesn’t need to find solution for anything, her job is to presents the problems and may be help put a little pressure to those in powers ( politicians, presidents, prime minister..etc..) to do something about it.

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I like your style of attacking the trolls,
Yes, even trolls got educated about refugees.

This article is way over the head of Ted C and the people who use the word Bump for a pregnant belly

Francesca @ 02/28/2008 at 3:03 pm

While I do appreciate her optimistic and caring view point, she is a bit naive to the actual process. She doesn’t exactly explain how all these good deeds are supposed to get done. She throws out a monetary amount but doesn’t really get into where it should come from exactly (us tax-payers I guess) or the specific allocation of it. It’s very easy to talk about the big perfect picture of what needs to be accomplished. This is what she has done in her article. It’s the details of how it’s supposed to get done and by whom that she doesn’t seem to address. She does not spend enough of her time in the very place she wants to fix. If she wants these wonderful things to happen, she needs to do more then pay two day visits every six months. She talks the talk, she needs to walk the walk. There are many people that devote their time, money …..there very lives to these missions. I take what they say a bit more seriously. They deserve the attention quite a bit more.
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She is not talking about perfect picture if you actually read her piece. The UNHCR have not been able to have a presence in Iraq for a few years because the security of the field workers could not be guaranteed. For the first time in many years, they will be able to get in and actually be able to have assist the refugees. The $261m dollars she is talking about was even mentioned as being less than daily budget for the war. My undestanding of her piece is that if there is a scale back of the troops, there will be some that will stay behind mostly for humanitarian work and to maintain peace and not as an occupying force, the same thing that we have been asking for in Darfur.

You might not like her, but you have to admit that she is knowledgeable on the refugee issue and if being in a place for more a long period of time is a prerequisite to advocating an issue, then most people in the state department or even the president cannot make policies since they make short visits and get advice from people on the ground.
Her visit much to the chagrin of her detractors have yielded some concrete positive outcome, and it shows she was was working in tandem with the UNHCR. So at today, there is promise of protection for the agency workers, there is $40m being made available by the Iraqi prime minister and there will be a sense for the refugees that someone is actively working on their behalf and that they have not been forgotten- that is progress any which way you look at it.

It is also foolhardy to disregard what she is saying that if these refugee crisis is not sorted it could be a breeding ground for future terrorists, that is an undeniable fact.

Thanks Jared for this thread, this is the kind of debate that I would rather have, there is no doubt that neither the right nor the left will be happy with what she has to say and that tells me she is more right than they will want to accept. I was against the war, but whether you were for or against the war, it is irrefutable that we need to clean up the mess that we created.

…”It seems to me that now is the moment to address the humanitarian side of this situation. Without the right support, we could miss an opportunity to do some of the good we always stated we intended to do” is RIDICULOUS. the U.S. never invaded, nor does it currently occupy, Iraq because of any intention to do “good” (OR rid Iraq of nuclear weapons, OR rid Iraq of Hussein, OR promote democracy in Iraq). The U.S. did it for greed (oil) and power (to control the oil and hence, have some control over the Middle East). No one cares–not the U.S. OR the current Iraqi goverment–about displaced Iraqi’s. This has been an issue for several years and she’s just now jumping on the bandwagon.
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seriously how about all the soldiers that have already died because of this stupid war/occupation?

Good to see Indie post again.
I liked your comment on the abc blog very much.

the problem is that Jolie over simplifies everything ..clean up this mess? haha..it will take DECADES to clean up this mess. GET REAL. 40 million hahhahaha…that’s not ENOUGH.

Why do you think no OTHER US PRESIDENT INCLUDING BUSH the first..did not invade IRAQ before..yeah IT A FUKKKKKING MESS.

JOLIE IS A NAIVE LITTLE TOOL FOR THE BUSH ADMIN.

It seems then Passing Thru that the radical anti war people are misinterpreting her words. These people want America to pull out now. They don’t care a bout the people over there. They don’t care about genocide that occurred under Suddaim regime or the refugeees caused by the turmoil in Iraq. Angelina was being sensible and caring. I supported the war. and I support staying in IRaq until the country is stabalized and the refugees are back in Iraq in adequate housing and conditions. When that is achieved then most troops should be gon other than some sma contingent will be there like there is in Europe and Japan.

Face it, folks. Under the you break it, you bought it rule, Iraq is really the 51st state of the union. We may as well add another star to Old Glory and get used to supporting this area forever.

((((((((((BRAVO INDIE)))))))))))))
I need to repost your post again and need to say …how do I love theeeee….let me count the way….( sorry AG, this is post is so great, even you have to agree, )

Indie @ 02/28/2008 at 4:01 pm

She is not talking about perfect picture if you actually read her piece. The UNHCR have not been able to have a presence in Iraq for a few years because the security of the field workers could not be guaranteed. For the first time in many years, they will be able to get in and actually be able to have assist the refugees. The $261m dollars she is talking about was even mentioned as being less than daily budget for the war. My undestanding of her piece is that if there is a scale back of the troops, there will be some that will stay behind mostly for humanitarian work and to maintain peace and not as an occupying force, the same thing that we have been asking for in Darfur.

You might not like her, but you have to admit that she is knowledgeable on the refugee issue and if being in a place for more a long period of time is a prerequisite to advocating an issue, then most people in the state department or even the president cannot make policies since they make short visits and get advice from people on the ground.
Her visit much to the chagrin of her detractors have yielded some concrete positive outcome, and it shows she was was working in tandem with the UNHCR. So at today, there is promise of protection for the agency workers, there is $40m being made available by the Iraqi prime minister and there will be a sense for the refugees that someone is actively working on their behalf and that they have not been forgotten- that is progress any which way you look at it.

It is also foolhardy to disregard what she is saying that if these refugee crisis is not sorted it could be a breeding ground for future terrorists, that is an undeniable fact.

Thanks Jared for this thread, this is the kind of debate that I would rather have, there is no doubt that neither the right nor the left will be happy with what she has to say and that tells me she is more right than they will want to accept. I was against the war, but whether you were for or against the war, it is irrefutable that we need to clean up the mess that we created.

eat a steak @ 02/28/2008 at 3:35 pm TOO bad the UNHCR has to rely on CELEBRITY
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Bcoz UNHCR knows that Angelina is the BESTS there is. She’s got BRAINS and GUTS. Thank God they did not get stupid and dumb people like you who spends their time tanning and waxing and spreading hate on their leisure time.