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Oh, come *on* people! We’ll get nowhere if we continue to kick this issue around. It’s time to draw a line under it and move on, etc. etc. etc…
DailyKos – Malnutrition has doubled in Iraqi children: While George W. Bush was frantically fighting to keep one woman’s feeding tube in place, the war that he started has doubled the rate of malnutrition in Iraqi children.
This post also cites a Lancet report stating that – out of the civilians who died during our little adventure – not all of them got shot or blowed up: Most died as a result of the violence, but many others died as a result of the increasingly difficult living conditions, reflected in increasing child mortality levels.
Perhaps we can send them our Turkey Twizzlers.