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UN claims malnutrition on the increase in Iraq
and of the course the WaPo reports it uncritically even though previous UN claims during the Saddam period were demonstrably bogusChildren Pay Cost of Iraq's Chaos Malnutrition Nearly Double What It Was Before Invasion By Karl Vick Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, November 21, 2004; Page A01 BAGHDAD -- Acute malnutrition among young children in Iraq has nearly doubled since the United States led an invasion of the country 20 months ago [of course they could have said, "since the terrorists began fighting against the US and the UN began helping the terrorists"], according to surveys by the United Nations, aid agencies and the interim Iraqi government. After the rate of acute malnutrition among children younger than 5 steadily declined to 4 percent two years ago, it shot up to 7.7 percent this year, according to a study... Posted by: mhw 2004-11-21 |
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