AP in the Spin Cycle

As I read this article, I'm reminded of something I caught a while back on someone else's blog a while back (apologies for not giving proper credit). To paraphrase, it's the AP headline the day after George Bush single-handedly cures AIDS and all forms of cancer:

Bush Ignores Common Cold - Millions Suffer

Malnutrition rising among Iraq's young children after U.S.-led invasion

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) Malnutrition among Iraq's youngest children has nearly doubled since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq despite U.N. efforts to deliver food to the war-ravaged country, a Norwegian research group said Monday.

Since the March 2003 invasion, malnutrition among children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years old has grown from 4 percent to 7.7 percent, said Jon Pedersen, deputy managing director of the Oslo, Norway-based Fafo Institute for Applied Social Science, which conducted the survey.

Apparently no statistics were readily available on the number of children sent to mass graves before and after US-led coalition removed Saddam Hussein from power.

Regardless of the unrest that has gripped the country, Pedersen said the findings were still puzzling.

Well, when you stop having malnourished children sent to early graves, they tend to stick around longer. Hence, they get included in some survey by a bunch of Norwegian panty-waists and listed as "newly-malnourished".

"Given the fact that World Food Program has distributed a lot of food, it's quite clear that one could expect some malnutrition, but the level that there is, it's a bit difficult to explain."

Well, if I could address Michael Moore's band of "revolutionaries" and "minutemen" for a second, please. Fewer bullets to the backs of the heads of humanitarian aid workers might be a good place to start. And what say you stop sawing the heads off of the civilian workers trying to re-build the country's infrastructure. That might help.

But what do I know? I'm one of the idiots who voted for Bush.