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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Bill who wrote (717106)	12/8/2005 4:28:56 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) of 769670

Saddam decided to take the day off from his trial. The question that has to be asked.. Are the citizens of Iraq better off now that Saddam has been removed from power? I believe I can read statistics correctly. Whats your view? A couple of links for you to ponder over first.. "This is the text of the lecture to be given by Harold Pinter when he receives the 2005 Nobel prize for literature on Saturday" for it is on the other side of that mirror that the truth stares at us. books.guardian.co.uk "squeezed to death" The change in 10 years is unparalleled, in my experience," Anupama Rao Singh, Unicef's senior representative in Iraq, told me. "In 1989, the literacy rate was 95%; and 93% of the population had free access to modern health facilities. Parents were fined for failing to send their children to school. The phenomenon of street children or children begging was unheard of. Iraq had reached a stage where the basic indicators we use to measure the overall well-being of human beings, including children, were some of the best in the world. Now it is among the bottom 20%. In 10 years, child mortality has gone from one of the lowest in the world, to the highest. sf.indymedia.org Just like those live aborted fetuses you were talking about. It's kind of uncomfortable to think about all those kids in Iraq being killed from war or lack of essential care.

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