Boy

I feel that Canada's Prime minister, Mr. Jean Chretien, and Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr. Lloyed Axworthy , have ignored this child's rights.
They have known for years that the oil for food program has been totally inadequate.

They are still under the mistaken impression that it is a humanitarian gesture to allow a country to sell it's own resources to buy food and medicines.

In Iraq, streets run with untreated sewage, and water-treatment facilities lie in ruin. Hospitals try to function without medicine, without electricity and without equipment. And the food-for-oil program, hampered by Iraq's limited ability to produce oil for sale, enables Iraq to spend only a few cents per person each day on food, far below even the barest minimum needed to survive

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