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The Lions Club has given itself a new mission: helping Iraqis receive adequate health care.It is time for service-minded individuals to chip in where "the government just can't seem to get started," says Emory Harmon, 87, a retired postmaster from Greenbelt and Lions Club member since 1955.
Harmon has faxed Iraq's ambassador-designate, Rend Rahim Francke, to propose establishing a Lions Club chapter in Baghdad. Harmon said the president of Lions Clubs International, Clement F. Kusiak, of Linthicum, Md., has also sent a fax promoting the idea to Iraq's Washington embassy from the headquarters in Oak Brook, Ill.
Eighty-seven.
Of course, he's just following the lead of the Optimists and Dick Cheney's Boy Scout cronies in the takeover of Iraq, don't you know.
Researchers say Boy Scouts have been active in Iraq for decades, with some placing the establishment date at 1921. Troops were repressed under Saddam Hussein's regime, however, and are only now getting re-established.
Now who besides a murderous dictator would suppress the Boy Scouts?