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1 in 8 Iraqis dies before fifth birthday »

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The mortality rate among Iraqi children younger than 5 rose 150 percent between 1990 and 2005, according to a report released this month by the U.S. humanitarian aid group Save the Children. In its most startling terms, the group estimates that 1 in 8 never makes it to his or her fifth birthday.

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  • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)canadianrancher57
    canadianrancher57
    May 24, 2007, 7:53 a.m.

    There is really something wrong in this world when the animals on my farm have a lower mortality rate than the children in Iraq. I am always seeing posts which want to force the country back into the stone age, it appears that this has been acomplished. The deaths of all these children seems not to be important to anyone because the world looks on and no one says anything, shame on us all we are all an insult to humanity.

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