The weather by me is unusually cold. Thank you for asking.
But that "decade old data" was hard data. Which is what I said. So as you can see, in my way I am correct. I'm not saying that decades old data was used properly (I think I implied the opposite), but I am saying it was hard data.
In Iraq I am sure food insecurity is very bad right now, worse than ever- since (If I remember right) many of Iraq's orchards were sprayed with defoliants to "uncover" insurgents- these orchards aren't going to be doing so well, and I'm sure violence in the countryside has impaired farming, and transport issues (like roadside bombs) must be really hampering food delivery. On top of that Iraq has been suffering droughts on and off- which have been the fault of neither sanctions, the US, nor Saddam. I think they had a severe one back in 1999, for example- and it is events like this, imo, that make it difficult to tie malnourishment in children to one specific thing.
That I may have a different view of the numbers, and see the calculation and finding of root causes differently, does not mean I am not concerned about malnourished children- in Iraq, or elsewhere. I perceived that discussing this would be a dead end, so I was going to drop it, due to the way you reacted to my mention of WMD. I don't like arguments that have no hope of some rapprochement, and I often throw in the towel prematurely, but in my experience sooner is better than later, sometimes. |
