UN Sanctions & Poor Security Tend to Increase Child Mortality

[Robert Franklin Draper III]

Former UN Sanctions and the present dwindling state of security in ... It is a shame that the United Nations, which claims to fight for peoples’ rights, is the main contributors to the child mortality rate that has increased 150% since 1990.” Because of UN Sanctions the Iraqi people couldn’t even safe guard the lives of their baby boys and girls. Medical supplies and modern drugs, which many westerns take for granted, have not been available to Iraq simply because they have had a president the American government opposed. Yes. I’ll admit that all of the blame shouldn’t be placed on the UN, but the bulk of the problem derived from the sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council on Iraq after the Iraq invasion of Kuwait.

Now, the war that America has started on the false pretence of weapons of mass destruction has only worsened the catastrophic situation for children seeking medical help. America started a war on false pretenses, and the Iraqi children are the ones who are getting the shaft. Can anybody imagine their children dieing of pneumonia or diarrhea, which has already accounted “for over 30 percent of child deaths.” When you attack the healthcare of peoples’ children, you kill the peoples’ dreams of a better future. Iraqi children embody the hopes and dreams of Iraqi people, just like American children do for Americans.