And we all thought that the Bush administration were perpetuating an epidemic of poverty here in the United States. Well, the Bushies have decided to take their poverty show on the road:
"Malnutrition among Iraq's youngest children has nearly doubled since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq despite U.N. efforts to deliver food to the war-ravaged country, a Norwegian research group said Monday."Since the March 2003 invasion, malnutrition among children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years has grown from 4 percent to 7.7 percent, said Jon Pedersen, deputy managing director of the Oslo, Norway-based Fafo Institute for Applied Social Science, which conducted the survey.
"The U.N. Development Program and Iraq's Central office for Statistics and Information Technology also took part in the survey.
"'It's in the level of some African countries,' Pedersen told The Associated Press. "Of course, no child should be malnourished, but when we're getting to levels of 7 to 8 percent, it's a clear sign of concern.'"