Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Save The Children?

There was a report issued by Save The Children on Monday. Iraq has had the greatest increase in child deaths under the age of 5, an increase of 150% over the last 15 years. That would be since Gulf War I and the imposition by the US of restrictions as to the import of certain products. These would include water purification products since, as the argument went, these were dual purpose and usable by the Iraqi military. That's nice, we can destroy the infrastructure, including water processing and delivery and yet won't let the Iraqi people import water purification products to protect their families. The Clinton administration is just as culpable for this genocide, as they had 8 years to stop it.
In 2005 about 122,000 Iraqi children under the age of five died. Does anyone really not understand why they hate us? We need to get out, militarily, now. We need to double or triple humanitarian aid now. As for Republican concerns, don't worry, we won the war, we just have seriously messed up the occupation.

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