U.N. Reconstruction Expert Worries Over Returning Baghdad Refugees

Angelina Jolie Visits Baghdad to Highlight Plight of Iraqi Refugees

BAGHDAD — Angelina Jolie brought her star power to Baghdad Thursday on a mission as a U.N. goodwill ambassador to highlight the plight of Iraqi refugees.

The actress said there needs to be a more coherent plan as the more than 2 million internally displaced Iraqis begin to trickle back to their homes amid a recent lull in violence that had threatened to spark a civil war in the country.

"There's lots of goodwill and lots of discussion, but there seems to be just a lot of talk at the moment," Jolie said in excerpts of an interview aired on CNN.

"What happens in Iraq and how Iraq settles in the years to come is going to affect the entire Middle East," she added. "And a big part of what it's going to affect, how it settles, is how these people are returned and settled into their homes and their community and brought back together and whether they can live together and what their communities look like."

So then, Miss U.N. Goodwill Ambassador, how's about getting some of those European nations to fork over the billions of dollars necessary to assist returning refugees, or was your trip merely an agenda-maker to find something amiss with the war in Iraq...

Good thing you're fabulously educated and highly experienced in these sort of things, otherwise we'd be tempted to call you just another airhead actress... who couldn't spell CAT if spotted the C and the T... trying to look smart.