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To: tejek who wrote (235610)	6/3/2005 7:19:24 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571931

According to Jean Ziegler, the United Nations Human Rights Commission's special expert on the right to food, the rate of malnutrition among Iraqi children has almost doubled since Saddam Hussein's ouster in April 2003. Today, at 7.7 percent, Iraq's child malnutrition rate is now roughly equal to that of Burundi, an African nation ravaged by more than a decade of war. It is far higher than the rates in Uganda and Haiti, countries also devastated by unrelenting violence. And the chicken hawks wonder why the Iraqi's are not grateful. I have a suspicion that the chicken hawks never read ANY of the bad news from Iraq. John

To: tejek who wrote (235610)	6/3/2005 8:38:03 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571931

Is Bush actually a man of his word? The president wants us to take his word that no one has been tortured at Guantanamo, but how can we trust his word when he doesn't know what he's saying? denverpost.com Let's recap: We have a holding facility established specifically to avoid judicial oversight; detainees who were "disappeared" from their home countries and who were called "unlawful combatants" to ensure that they would have no legal rights; a memo to the president that assured him that torture wasn't illegal until a kidney failed; abuses at the American-run Abu Ghraib prison that revealed what can happen when the law is suspended - yet the president thinks it's absurd to suggest that anything might be going wrong at Guantanamo Bay. ....