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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR

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To: Thomas M. who wrote (10948)	2/20/2003 1:37:22 PM
From: Mighty_Mezz	Read Replies (2) of 25898

MILLION IRAQI KIDS WOULD DIE IN CONFLICT Feb 19 2003 EXCLUSIVE By Gary Jones ONE million Iraqi children under the age of five could die from malnutrition if there is a war, warns a confidential United Nations' report. It says that five million Iraqis are vulnerable. Its experts estimate that up to half a million would need medical treatment for injuries. But they think that most deaths would come from disease and starvation not military attack. Around 70 per cent of the population - 18 million - would have no water supply and 8.7 million no sanitation if the country was blitzed. The 27-page dossier has been compiled by the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in New York and has been put on Secretary General Kofi Annan's desk. It warns the the UN would not be able to cope with such a humanitarian catastrophe. A senior UN source said: "If anybody suggests the people of Iraq aren't going to suffer in the event of war, you can tell them they are lying. "The UN's leading minds have worked out the full ramifications of war and they don't make pleasant reading. This is not something you're going to hear from George Bush or Tony Blair for that matter. They don't want to discuss the human casualties of war. "A change of regime may be what they want, but a protracted war will bring hundreds of thousands of deaths. That is fact." mirror.co.uk

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