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Iraqi Child Malnutrition Doubles

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A report to the UN human rights commission in Geneva has concluded that Iraqi children were actually better off under Saddam Hussein than they are now … It now appears that, far from improving the quality of life for Iraqi youngsters, the US-led military assault on Iraq has inexplicably doubled the number of children under five suffering from malnutrition. Under Saddam, about 4% of children under five were going hungry, whereas by the end of last year almost 8% were suffering.

Increasing numbers of children in Iraq do not have enough food to eat and more than a quarter are chronically undernourished … Jean Ziegler, a UN specialist on hunger who prepared the report, blamed the worsening situation in Iraq on the war led by coalition forces.

5 Responses

  1. Anonymous says:
    2005-04-20 at 10:11:12

    Infant mortality
    107 deaths/1,000 live births (2001)
    52.71 deaths/1,000 live births (2004)

  2. Anonymous says:
    2005-04-29 at 10:11:12

    can’t remember. it took a while to hunt for it. but I believe one is the cia factbook and one is from some liberal commoncausey/moveon thing. couldn’t find it from one source (obviously it’s there) but search engine’s really are pathetic in offering now query refinement.

  3. Anonymous says:
    2005-05-03 at 10:11:12

    when you take into account the sots for the iraq war, be sure to correct for any gains, such as libya disarming, syria leaving lebanon (one monnth after iraq elections after being there some 30 years), possible disarmament of iran, the effect of the oil spiking, causing hybrid sales, fewer green houses gases and more development of cleaner domestic energy, etc.

    any number stat given on life expectancy could of course be challenged by the source (cia) or that the numbers were so high before beause of UN sanctions.

    perhaps the best answer to any of these numbers is from asking iraqis. us speculating if their lives are better is speculation. their opinion is much more important.

    March-April 2004: 46 percent say the US invasion has done more harm than good; 33 percent say more good. (Gallup)

    Forty percent of Arabs say it was right for the United States to invade; that soars to 87 percent of Kurds. Just one-third of Arabs say the war liberated rather than humiliated Iraq; it’s 82 percent of Kurds. Thirty percent of Arabs support the presence of coalition forces, again compared with 82 percent of Kurds. Positive views of the invasion also are held disproportionately in the south of the country, as well as in the Kurdish north.

  4. Mike Rogers says:
    2005-05-03 at 10:11:12

    Libya re-aligning with West was a result of process dating back to early 90s. A process led almost entirely by the Brits, Germans, and French.

    Syria? I await results, not rhetoric.

    Iran? Nearer a nuke than ever.

    A better way to attain higher efficiency is a carbon tax on vehicular transport and per-use quotas, not paying risk premiums on the spot market. One way leads to real efficiencies,m the other to stagflation.

  5. Anonymous says:
    2005-05-05 at 10:11:12

    Headline from Fark:

    “Remember when Britain called the United States dumb for reelecting a guy who got it into an unjust war?”

    Links to Tony Blair being re-elected.

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