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In one month, 3000 children died in Iraq; on average, that is 100 per day. Though
many are innocent victims of incessant clashes, most succumb to malnourishment
and unsanitary living conditions.
The shortage of drugs and modern equipment is worse than when Saddam Hussein
was in power - when international embargoes isolated the country.
Shells and shrapnel, grenades and bombs are other factors affecting the health of children. According to disclosures from the Health Care Ministry, children are suffering from diseases that were never reported before the war. Rimad Cuburi, a doctor in one of the country’s largest children’s hospitals, said the ailments arouse from some of the American weaponry.
Meanwhile, in the Sadr City section of Baghdad, clashes between Moqtada Al-Sadr’s militia and American forces restarted with 34 deaths and 174 injuries. One American soldier is among the dead.
http://www.zaman.org/?bl=international&alt=&trh=20040908&hn=12137
Forum posts
14 September 2004, 03:15
At the beginning of the war on Iraq, the Bush administration boasted proudly that they did not count the number of civilian deaths and did not intend to. No explaination, but most educated guesses are that the Christian Right that controls our country 1) Think these people are subhuman (dark skinned= racism). 2) Do not care about deaths of children or others there. (only concerned about the unborn in this country). 3) Think God has sent them there to eliminate the unbelivers.
During the 12 year embargo, thousands of starving sick children were denied food and medicine by our government, held like bargaining chips. Most of them died. Hard to believe Jesus would approve.
Saddam Hussein was our man, or rather the C.I.A.’s man until he got cute and announced that he would no longer trade oil for dollars....that was the straw that broke the camel’s back, he had to be eliminated. He became the boogie man. The object of a phony war by an appointed president.