CIA World Factbook understates the savaging of Iraq's children by more than one-half.
WHO places Infant Mortality above 110 deaths per 1,000 live births.
CIA public information on Iraq places Infant Mortality Rate at 47.04.
CIA's assertion is used with Congress.
This Holocaust Denial has real world impacts.
Our legislators are assured that health efforts are successful, reducing IMR every single year:
- 2000 == 62.49 per 1,000
- 2001 == 60.05 per 1,000
- 2002 == 57.61 per 1,000
- 2003 == 55.16 per 1,000
- 2004 == 52.71 per 1,000
- 2005 == 50.25 per 1,000
- 2006 == 48.64 per 1,000
- 2007 == 47.04 per 1,000
Big result is that Iraq's budget for health is $37 per capita.
CIA puts 2007 IM deaths at 49,942.
NGOs and WHO place the count at 116,885 children a year.
Afghanistan is worse off.
IMR at their 5-year line is at 247 per 1,000 live births from WHO.
Almost twice Iraq's 5-year, at 130.
Cost to cut IMR Iraq by half is less than 600,000,000 USD a year.
Halliburton pockets 20 times as much.
America is not all that impressive at IMR. Over 7 IM deaths per 1,000 live births. A strong country like Switzerland gets down to the 4.6 range.
The postings on yesterday's diary on this subject led to pretty startling info.
WHO/EMRO has quite a bit of estimated data. Stratified sampling techniques lead to statistically compelling results.
The groundwork was already in place to gather underground info. The U.N. sanctions during the 1990s had caused suffering and 500,000 deaths among Iraqi children.
The "Mission Accomplished" both for this occupation and for the earlier sanctions, sadly, is little short of genocide. Letting Iraqi children take it in the neck is shared by the Clinton and Bush Administrations.
Afghanistan is in horrible shape. I'll post up a diary, if and when I get clear data.
Some of what has been collected by the NGOs is so bad, it is hard to believe. A fourth of the Afghan kids die by 5 years.
The Afghan numbers look like rural America in the 1700s, before any part of modern medicine was available.
Our leaders talk about winning two wars in these countries. How can this be rational ??? Leave things broken and these people will be taught to hate us for centuries.