Pardon my intrusion into your conversation len. Brumar89 posted that if 1 million Iraqi children have died in the past decade, there is no more powerful argument for removing Saddam from power ASAP!
To which you replied: Or lifting the embargo and no-fly zones.
If you wish to reduce child mortality perhaps the no-fly zones should be extended. Child mortality rates fell in the areas protected by the no-fly zones.
Ali, a researcher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Shah, an analyst for the World Health Organization in Geneva, conducted a demographic survey for UNICEF in cooperation with the government of Iraq. In early 1999 their study surveyed 40,000 households in south-central Iraq and in the northern Kurdish zone. In south-central Iraq, child mortality rates rose from 56 per 1,000 births for the period 1984-89 to 131 per 1,000 for the period 1994-99. In the autonomous Kurdish region in the north, Ali and Shah found that child mortality rates actually fell during the same period, from 80 per 1,000 births to 72 per 1,000.</i >
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