Baghdad's children still suffering in post-Saddam Iraq

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030908/hl_afp/iraq_children_030908042256

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq (news - web sites)'s children were the first victims of the sanctions imposed after the 1991 Gulf war (news - web sites), and now they are paying the heaviest price in the chaos that has followed the fall of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites).


Deprived of basics by the international isolation of the country and used as a symbol by Saddam's propaganda machine, Iraqi children continue to suffer from the same ills in the troubled "peace" that has followed his overthrow by US-led forces in April.


They fall prey to diarrhoea, infection, malnutrition and other diseases -- illnesses that are the result of poverty and would easily be prevented if their families had access to clean water and proper food.


Five-month-old Ali's emaciated body appears all the more fragile in the large bed in Baghdad's Aliwiya children's hospital where he has been laid up for the past week. He weighs just three kilos.

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1. Yep, we're doing a lot for these people

An Iraqi infant is fed bottled milk at the al-Alawiyah Hospital in Baghdad. Iraq (news - web sites)'s children were the first victims of the sanctions imposed after the 19991 Gulf War (news - web sites) and now they are paying the heaviest price in the chaos that has followed the fall of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), falling prey to diarrhoea, infection, malnutrition and other diseases(AFP/File/Thomas Coex)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030908/241/57ew9.html

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2. Feeding that child bottled milk

can lead to more problems/deaths if there are no safegurads for sterilization of the bottles, or clean water for the preparation of the milk or formula.

The BFEE and PNAC don't really care about any of that though. Keeping Iraq isolated and/or limited from receiving International assistance/interventions is creating the stage for genocide.

Yup, Laurie Garrett was right in her Davos letter earlier this year; A global ethnic cleansing is on the move.