Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Which Children Do You Include, Mister Brown?
Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in his speech to the Labour Party Conference this week, actually did mention Iraq - once - but despite his apparent concern, wrapped in biblical quotes, for all children, he failed to mention:
The estimate by Iraq's Ministry of Health that half of the country’s children suffer from some form of malnutrition.
The fact that less than a third of Iraq’s children now attend school, compared to 100 percent attendance before the March 2003 invasion.
The countless numbers of orphaned Iraqi children who survive by begging, stealing or scavenging garbage for food.
The 70 percent of young children who suffer symptoms of trauma-related stress.
The virtual collapse of the Iraqi health service, causing sick or injured children who could otherwise be treated by simple means, to die in their hundreds.
The children who have lost hands, feet and limbs who are left without prostheses.
Unimagineable suffering aplenty for children, in a war that Brown has supported from the very beginning, but these are not children he wants to talk about at his Bournemouth conference, or in front of UK voters.
SAVE THE CHILDREN – UNLESS THEY ARE IRAQIS
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