Iraq child hunger report denied (by US and UK) (BBC News)

[Up2Late]

(Well, somebody's lying here...)

Iraq child hunger report denied

US and UK officials have denied reports that increasing numbers of children in Iraq are facing chronic food shortages and malnourishment.

Tuesday, 5 April, 2005, 15:07 GMT 16:07 UK

A UN report last week said malnutrition in under-fives had almost doubled since the US-led invasion of 2003. The UK government says hunger levels fell between 2000 when a Unicef survey was carried out and 2004 when the Iraqi Statistical Office did its own survey. The US ambassador to the UN in Geneva also criticised the UN findings.

Last week's report, by UN hunger specialist Jean Ziegler, blamed the worsening situation in Iraq on the war led by coalition forces. About 8% of Iraqi children are now going hungry compared with 4% under former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, Mr Ziegler told the UN Human Rights Commission meeting in Geneva.

"Dramatic improvement"

Kevin Moley, the US ambassador to the UN in Geneva, dismissed Mr Ziegler's findings. "First, he has not been to Iraq, and second, he is wrong," he said, adding Mr Ziegler had been a long-term critic of the Iraq invasion. "The surveys that have been taken... have indicated that the recent rise in malnutrition rates began between 2002 and 2003 under the regime of Saddam Hussein," Mr Moley said. "If anything, vaccination, food aid have improved dramatically since the fall of Saddam Hussein," he added.

The UK's Department for International Development says the Unicef and Iraqi suggests a decline in child malnutrition from 17.3% in 2000 to 11.7% in 2004. UK advisers in Baghdad are working with the Iraqi government on ways of reforming the food ration system to ensure that the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable families are protected. "Reform is needed in order to reduce the burden on Iraqi finances of providing free food to everyone, and the negative effects this has on domestic agriculture and food traders," a government spokesman said.

[jayfish]

1. Just When It Seems That We Can Decend...

no further into darkness, we get this. Quit being deniers and JUST ADDRESS THE PROBLEM you fvcks.

Jay

[xxqqqzme]

2. 'Reform is needed in order to

reduce the burden on Iraqi finances of providing free food to everyone...'

How about get the f*ck out of their country assholes. I am so sick 'n tired of this rationizaton crap. So because Ziegler is anti-invasion his numbers R wrong? Having trouble w/ that since we destroyed their country.

[leftchick]

6. it only makes sense that it is worse now....

look at Fallujah alone. Over 200,000 displaced people living in camps in unfit conditions. No electricity or clean water means bad news for little ones. I remember baby Ali dying from malnutrition in Baghdad just about a year ago. I hardly think conditions have improved since then.

They can deny all they want they are still fucking war criminals.

[liberal N proud]

3. The bu$h regime will simply deny it three times and it will go away

You will never hear anything about it on FAUX or CNN.

[xultar]

4. Mission Accomplished! BTW if you want terrorists, starve the children

That'll create some hate filled terrorists for years to come.

[Frederik]

5. The ExxonMobil approach...

when confronted with science, just say "nah, they're just making that up". Works every time.

[China_cat]

7. Of course there's a lot less child hunger.

There's a lot less children.

[NNN0LHI]

8. And in other news Germans deny the existence of concentration camps n/t

[Up2Late]

9. Terror,terror,terror, 9/11, 9/11,9/11...

Just more crazy talk from the U.N. "Debating Society...".

I just hope the people of the world know that more than half of the people in the U.S. Do NOT Suck.:banghead:

[Megahurtz]

10. Deny everything,

admit to nothing. That's what their high paid legal staff tells them to do.

[Roland99]

11. Began in 2002 and 2003? Hmm...what was going on then?

Let's see....


The Propagandist was beginning to build a military force on the Iraqi borders and then actually invaded in early 2003. Who was in charge of Iraq for most of 2003? No one!


Assholes.