In a piece Angelina penned for The Washington Post newspaper titled 'A
Reason to Stay in Iraq', she wrote: "What we cannot afford, in my view, is
to squander the progress that has been made. In fact, we should step up our
financial and material assistance."
The UNHCR has asked the US government for $261 million this year to tackle
the problem. Angelina claims the sum is "less than the US spends each day to
fight the war in Iraq."
The star - who visited Baghdad earlier this month - is deeply concerned
there is no coherent plan to cope with two million refugees within the
country, 58 per cent of which are under 12, and the two million that have
already fled Iraq.
She said: "It will be quite a while before Iraq is ready to absorb more than
four million refugees and displaced people. But it is not too early to start
working on solutions."