NEWS: Malnutrition Rising Among Iraq's Children

[Bluebear]

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Malnutrition among Iraq's youngest children has nearly doubled since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq despite U.N. efforts to deliver food to the war-ravaged country, a Norwegian research group said Monday.

Since the March 2003 invasion, malnutrition among children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years has grown from 4 percent to 7.7 percent, said Jon Pedersen, deputy managing director of the Oslo, Norway-based Fafo Institute for Applied Social Science, which conducted the survey...

"It's in the level of some African countries," Pedersen told The Associated Press. "Of course, no child should be malnourished, but when we're getting to levels of 7 to 8 percent, it's a clear sign of concern."

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041122/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_malnutrition_rising

[CoffeeAnnan]

1. Who gives a rat's ass about Iraqi children? They brought it on

themselves.They should not have allowed Saddam Hussein to be such an evil doer.

Now don't bother me with posts like that.I gotta get my Turkey trimmed for the holidays.We have to give Thanks for our good fortune that we live in the greatest country in the world under the greatest President that ever graced our White House who knows how to kick Ayrab ass even when they don't have WMD's.<sarcasm Off>

[DrWeird]

2. According to CNN.

More kids are going hungy in Iraq now than before the invasion.