US Soldiers Killing Iraqi Babies

If there is one damning statistic on Iraq it must surely be this: after two years of US occupation, the number of malnourished and starving Iraqi children has doubled:

"Growing numbers do not have enough food to eat and more than a quarter are chronically undernourished, according to the report. The worst cases, where children under five are suffering acute malnutrition, rose late last year to 7.7 per cent from four per cent immediately after Saddam Hussein was ousted in April 2003.

Jean Ziegler, the UN Human Rights Commission's special expert on the right to food, blamed the situation on the invasion, saying it was 'a result of the war led by coalition forces'. "

Remember that prior to the invasion, Iraq's children were already badly malnourished from a decade of sanctions. To say that this number has doubled is really abyssmally sad.