The good, the bad, and the ugly in Iraq. You really can cherry-pick the facts you want to use to make your case. NBC's Jane Arraf tries to walk the editorial tightrope, but says the situation continues to deteriorate. At least on one level.
Humanitarian situation in Iraq ‘worsening’
Although U.S. forces have stabilized security in Iraq, the country’s humanitarian situation continues to worsen, with up to 50,000 Iraqis a month still fleeing or being forced out of their homes by sectarian violence, the top U.N. official here said. "Overall the situation remains of great concern and has not been improving. In fact, it has been worsening, there’s no doubt about that," Ashraf Jehangir Qazi said in an interview over the weekend with NBC News. Qazi, the special representative of U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, called the current situation in Iraq one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. In addition to tens of thousands of civilians killed and [...]
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