In the fine George W. Bush tradition of never really thinking things through all that clearly it seems that little things like food after the invasion never played a significant role in the US-led war planning discussions - or maybe they figured that’s just one more thing that would be taken care of by the throngs of smiling and happy people who met them at the gates of Baghdad, or by the international community rushing to share in the glory of huge weapons of mass destruction finds.
A UN human rights expert warned on Thursday that malnutrition rates among young Iraqi children had almost doubled since the US-led invasion of Iraq, in a report that sharply criticised the impact of the global anti-terror drive on hunger.We’re also still hearing the (Right)WingNut, Bush can do no wrong, crowd having a field day with the oil for food program in Iraq and how the UN has been cheapened and made even further irrelevant by the scandal … does that mean that all the US presidents and their administrations and so on and so forth who knew about their buddies taking advantage of it are equally cheap and irrelevant? Or just the hypocritical one that’s in power now? If Annan should resign over this does that mean Bush should as well? Just wondering…
Now you see why I grabbed that CNN story when I did. So we’d be able to find it again.