Uruknet reports on Iraqi children’s malnourishment four years after US invasion:
…malnutrition rates have risen in Iraq from 19 percent before the US-led invasion to a national average of 28 percent four years later.
Caritas says that rising hunger has been caused by high levels of insecurity, collapsed healthcare and other infrastructure, increased polarisation between different sects and tribes, and rising poverty.
Over 11 percent of newborn babies are born underweight in Iraq today, compared with a figure of 4 percent in 2003. Before March 2003, Iraq already had significant infant mortality due to malnutrition because of the international sanctions regime.
“Iraq has the second largest oil supplies in the world, but it has levels of poverty, hunger and underdevelopment comparable to sub-Saharan Africa.
That comes in addition to the hundred of thousands of Iraqi civilians killed by the war. Of course, Americans die in Iraq also, as a result of this war. In fact, more Americans have died from the Iraq War that in the 9/11 attacks. Why does the U.S. allow its government to wage this needless, expensive, and devastating war? Iraq posed no threat to the U.S. and had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks. By weakening the military and increasing anti-Americanism, the Iraq War has increased the threat of terrorism and left the United States in more danger than before.
Why do we allow governments to increase violence and poverty with trillion-dollar wars, when we could use that money to reduce poverty and peacefulness?
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