Every hungry kid in the world could eat with the $Billions spent in Iraq

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Fraction of Iraq costs could feed world poor-WFP


http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L19676871.htm

BRUSSELS, Nov 19 (Reuters) - A fraction of the cost of the Iraq war would be enough to feed the world's poor and help boost peace and security, the head of the United Nations food agency said on Wednesday.

"We look at tens of billions being spent today in Iraq, the conflict... (With) even a small percentage of the commitment that the world has made to Iraq, you could feed every hungry child in the world," James Morris, executive director of the World Food Programme (WFP), told a news conference.

He said people who were hungry and "at their wit's end" were more susceptible to the message of people wishing to harm the world.

"The message of those who would do the world harm does not resonate as well with people who are not hungry as it does with those at their wits' end," he said.

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1. Not to mention

* birth control/HIV counseling for everyone in the world
* vaccinations for billions in third world countries
* continue to line pockets of Halliburton senior execs


Oh well, two out of three ain't bad!

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2. In 1975, the Pentagon and Soviet defense budgets could change the world...

... for the better. It was estimated that using the combined US-USSR defense budgets would ensure clean water systems and a modern hospital for every community around the world with more than 10,000 people that didn't then have them. That's just one year's budget, way back then.

The BFEE doesn't like that idea because:

A. It's bad for BFEE business (Carlyle types).
B. The population of üntermenschen would grow.