We Owe Iraq’s Children More Than a Hospital
Re “Politics Questioned in Hospital Plan,” Feb. 24: So we are going to sponsor a state-of-the-art children’s hospital in Iraq because it has one of the highest rates of child mortality in the Middle East.
I don’t suppose that high mortality rate could be influenced by the epidemic of childhood leukemia that is the legacy of the depleted-uranium artillery shells that we used in Iraq in the first Gulf War?
Or by the widespread child malnutrition that occurred under our postwar sanctions? Or by the thousands of youngsters killed and maimed by our bombs in the recent invasion?
We have wreaked havoc on Iraq’s youngest, and we owe them a lot more than one fancy hospital.
Jean Moore
Los Angeles
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