Reply #92: And these women and children, do they matter?

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Where is the outrage against those who turned their backs on this illegal invasion.

http://rescue.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/04/first-annual-sicf-orphans-conference-in-baghdad.html

"...One U.S. military report I read disclosed that during the height of the conflict more than 100 mothers were dying every day.

When looking for the statistics on the number of orphans in Iraq, one can find numbers from one million to over 5 million. No one really knows, the social fabric of life has been so disintegrated over the past 10 years through war and sectarian strife that the normal information structures have been all but destroyed.

The point that one member of the conference brought up was that the total number of orphans, though not clearly known, does not really matter. The important thing to keep in mind is that one orphan is too many, and whether it’s 1 million or 5 million, the fact is, Iraq is facing perhaps the greatest orphan crisis that has ever been seen in a Middle Eastern country throughout all time..."