This comes as a surprise to nobody. Bush’s Great Iraq Adventure has caused so many people to become refugees that it has now become a major humanitarian crisis. I’m sure Bush will try to place the blame elesewhere, but they just didn’t have a humanitarian crisis before Bush’s invasion.

Amnesty International today warned that the Middle East is on the verge of a massive humanitarian crisis unless the European Union, United States and other countries take urgent and concrete measures to assist the more than three million people forcibly displaced by the conflict in Iraq.

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“The Iraq conflict is in its fifth year, and the civilian situation is more dire than ever,” said Larry Cox, Amnesty International USA executive director. “As more and more Iraqis flee their country seeking haven in bordering nations, the international community, especially the United States, must thrust humanitarian efforts into overdrive. Otherwise, stable nations in the region facing the burden of educating, housing and caring for millions of refugees may begin to implode.”

Of course, the neocon wet dream was for the incvasion of Iraq to produce a stable democracy that helped stabalize the MidEast. As it turns out the Bush Administration produced the opposite. Nobody at ASZ is surprised.