"Iraqis abandoning children...":

[MnFats]

of course, everything is going swimmingly in Iraq but.....here is another measure of the living hell we have put upon the iraqis...

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/09/iraq.children/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

"Said Ismail Hakki breaks down in tears as he recalls that story. Leukemia can be treatable to a degree in much of the world, but not in Iraq. The baby died two months later.

"It shook me like hell," said Hakki, the president of the Iraqi Red Crescent. "All my life I've been a surgeon. I've seen blood; I've seen death. That never shook me -- none whatsoever. But when I see the suffering of those people, that really shook me."

The plight of Iraq's children is nearing epidemic proportions, he said, with mothers and fathers abandoning their children "because they're becoming a liability." The parents don't do it out of convenience, they do it out of desperation. "