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Sunday, May 13, 2007

Iraq's Children Between Despair & Death--From Uruknet

One in every eight children will not reach the age of five in Iraq.

***Later in article: [click on above link to read whole article]

"The plight of Iraq's children began well before the March 2003 invasion. If you raise your head a tad and look at the intro to this blog, you will see Albright's famous statements that killing half a million Iraqi children is insignificant when compared to the zealous pursuit of foreign policy.

"That was more than 10 years ago and today the statement still holds true.

"Iraq's children not only suffer from malnutrition but have also exhibited severe trauma-based disorders because of the daily violence that has gripped the country since the great war of liberation and democracy.

"During the war of liberation, thousands of Iraqi children were killed, heads severed, limbs amputated, disfigured, burned thanks to the precision bombing of US forces.

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