Could U.S. Campaign Funds Feed Iraq's Starving Children?

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Could U.S. Campaign Funds Feed Iraq's Starving Children?
(posted with permission of the author from http://www.saneramblings.com)

This is little Nuri. He's just 20 months old, two feet tall, weighs about 23 pounds and has innocent dark eyes and a soft smile. Soon he may die.

Because his tiny tummy hurts from hunger, he often cries himself to sleep. His parents desperately seek more milk and more food for him but it's in very short supply in war torn Iraq.

Nuri is not a real child, but he is based on tens of thousands of real Iraqi children suffering from malnutrition. They are largely invisible to the U.S. public because the U.S. media rarely tells their stories, so I created him to make a point.

The Iraqi government has a food rationing program but this summer will slash it so the number of babies suffering like little Nuri will grow sharply. Many like him will die of diseases they're too weak from hunger to fend off.

Meanwhile, in February, Hillary Clinton's campaign took in $35 million, her best month ever, and Barack Obama's take is estimated to surpass $50 million, an all-time one month record for any candidate. John McCain's war chest is also collecting enormous sums of money.

What if instead of spending all that money for more media time and a few more campaign stops and an ever bigger staff of political advisors, one of the candidates took half of his or her monthly take, and donated it to the United Nations to feed Iraq's starving children.

It would send a powerful message far beyond their campaign promises to say, "I really care about the Iraq war's littlest victims and I'm taking action right now to help save their lives."

For those of you who feel the candidates will use all of the money on their campaigns, please join me in sending a check to the United Nations, even if you send just a few dollars. It might make a crucial difference in saving the lives of some of those children.

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1. It's not getting better in Iraq, just cause less people are dying, quickly!

This is the real metric to determine if there is progress in Iraq!

[Forkboy]

2. Yes, but so would the billions we spend on weapons and black ops.

The world needs the poor to exploit. Why would those in power try to end that?

Your post does put an interesting perspective on things though, that's for sure. :thumbsup: