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The biggest [reasonable] criticism of the Clinton administration was its sanctions on Iraq that led to the starving of countless Iraqi children. Sec. State Albright shrugged it off, while the Bush administration was quick to put the blame on Saddam for squandering oil-for-food money (which we all now know was a farce), but here is the evidence that, after Saddam, the US-led coalition has done nothing to improve the situation of Iraqi children. In fact, it’s gotten worse.
Acute malnutrition among young children in Iraq has nearly doubled since the United States led an invasion of the country 20 months ago, according to surveys by the United Nations, aid agencies and the interim Iraqi government. […]
The new figure translates to roughly 400,000 Iraqi children [under five] suffering from “wasting,” a condition characterized by chronic diarrhea and dangerous deficiencies of protein.
The surveys suggest the silent human cost being paid across a country convulsed by instability and mismanagement. While attacks by insurgents have grown more violent and more frequent, deteriorating basic services take lives that many Iraqis said they had expected to improve under American stewardship.
Iraq’s child malnutrition rate now roughly equals that of Burundi, a central African nation torn by more than a decade of war. It is far higher than rates in Uganda and Haiti.
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Big salaams,
Thank you for putting this information out so we can understand the reality of the occupation.