BEFORE-AND-AFTER LOOK AT U.S. WARS.Byline: - David Kronke While the country involves itself with Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein (born April 28, 1937, Tikrit, Iraq—died Dec. 30, 2006, Baghdad) President of Iraq (1979–2003). He joined the Ba'th Party in 1957. Following participation in a failed attempt to assassinate Iraqi Pres. - or Evan Marriott or Trista Rehn Trista Nicole Sutter (née Rehn) (born October 28, 1972 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a prominent former participant in the ABC reality television shows, The Bachelor, in which she was runner-up to Amanda Marsh, and The Bachelorette. or Michael Jackson Noun 1. Michael Jackson - United States singer who began singing with his four brothers and later became a highly successful star during the 1980s (born in 1958) Michael Joe Jackson, Jackson , take your pick - the United States still has forces in Afghanistan. And as documentarians Cliff Orloff and Olga Shalygin (the latter a photographer who worked for the Daily News in the '80s and whose work won a Pulitzer Prize in the '90s) discovered, much remains to be done for the beleaguered be·lea·guer tr.v. be·lea·guered, be·lea·guer·ing, be·lea·guers 1. To harass; beset: We are beleaguered by problems. 2. To surround with troops; besiege. displaced of the country. As ``Afghanistan: Winning the War, Losing the Peace'' reports, 1.2 million refugees have returned to the country since the Taliban were driven out, while another 400,000 in the country are unable to return to their homes. This has resulted in far more refugees than volunteers can possibly hope to assist, a disaster in the making. Orloff and Shalygin trek, for starters, to remote Sar-e Pol, where a person a day dies in a squatters' camp of 5,000 homeless where food programs have been terminated and medical treatment scarcely exists. One survivor laments, ``We'd be better off if the Americans bombarded us.'' It's a sad, important and woefully woe·ful also wo·ful adj. 1. Affected by or full of woe; mournful. 2. Causing or involving woe. 3. Deplorably bad or wretched: underreported side of the story in Afghanistan. AFGHANISTAN: WINNING THE WAR, LOSING THE PEACE, 10 tonight, KCET KCET Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo (Japan) KCET Kamaraj College of Engineering and Technology . Airing before the Afghan documentary is ``Frontline: The War Behind Closed Doors,'' which looks at the internal machinations within the Bush administration as its pushes toward confrontation and possible war with Iraq. The show examines the reasons why the administration has abandoned the nation's long-standing policy of containment of that country in favor of a more aggressive policy. FRONTLINE: THE WAR BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, 9 tonight, KCET. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: An extended family of 12 has been living in this tent for over a year at a refugee camp near Sar-e Pol in northern Afghanistan. Cliff Orloff |
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