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The chance that an Iraqi child will live beyond age 5 has plummeted faster than anywhere else in the world since 1990, according to a report released Tuesday, which placed the country last in its child survival rankings.

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tehranchik
May 7, 2007, 10:04 p.m.
Something as simple as a mosquito net could save some of these children.
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bubba2
May 7, 2007, 11:29 p.m.
I'm waiting for some of the noisiest Pro-lLifers -- like Dobson and Robertson and O'Reilly and Lindsey Graham, and their 'followers' -- to get busy and go to Iraq right now and help all of those children that are homeless and maimed and injured and sick.
But since those children have long since popped out of the womb, there is no need to help them. Only when a baby hasn't been born yet is it worth protecting - after the birth, they are ALL on their own.
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edromar2
May 8, 2007, 11:19 a.m.
Well, that is some legacy the Bushes have left.
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crespi
May 8, 2007, 12:16 p.m.
Mission Accomplished
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Taganan
May 8, 2007, 4:28 p.m.
The ranking is due to having a large drop in the survival rate, not to having the fewest children to survive. Darfur must be worse. Again the facts are twisted to serve a political purpose. No blame is put on the terrorists who kill anyone, including children, in order to impose their rule on a people who don't want them.
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jaern
May 8, 2007, 5:45 p.m.
No blame is put on the terrorists who kill anyone, including children, in order to impose their rule on a people who don't want them.
There's quite a few here blaming Bushco.
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OldRusty
May 8, 2007, 8:18 p.m.
Does the car bombs, have anything to do with this? dahh, them folks just keep on killing each other in the name of their god.