US Congressman Tony Hall on Iraq: you see malnourished children and they have distended stomachs
Iraq-USA, Politics, 4/26/2000

US Congressman Tony Hall who just returned from a visit to Iraq told PBS's NewHour on Tuesday that the Iraqi president is using the Iraqis' condition for propaganda purposes. He also added that in Iraq "you see malnourished children and they have distended stomachs, you know, red hair. They have spots all over their hair. They... there is certainly a lot of wasting among children. Wasting is a term that they use in countries that are facing famine. 25-30% of the children that are from the ages of one to six are chronically malnourished. There is cholera, and polio has come back with a vengeance, all of the major diseases. Any time you have cholera and the major diseases like this, you have a country that's going downhill quickly health-wise."

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