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Subject: [GreenProgressiveTalk] FreeDetainees.org: US War Dollars Rob US
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Posted: 25 Mar 2008 09:07 PM CDT
INTERVIEW-Billions for Iraq war seen squeezing food aid
By Dazeylin Share This! By Missy Ryan
WASHINGTON, March 25 (Reuters) - The cost of the Iraq war is squeezing
funding for U. S. global food aid programs and[IMAGE] threatens to
exacerbate hunger just as soaring prices are hitting the world's poor,
former U. S. presidential contender George McGovern said on Tuesday.
McGovern, a special envoy for the U. N. food aid agency, is pressing U.
S. lawmakers to guarantee funds for child nutrition programs that are
part of an agriculture bill making its way through Congress.
The former Democratic senator from South Dakota said mandatory funding
for the McGovern-Dole program =97 which sends U. S. crops to poor
schoolchildren overseas =97 would sail through Congress were it not for the
hundreds of billions of dollars being poured into Iraq.
"If we didn't have this war going in Iraq, this thing would be a piece of
cake. They could drop that much money through the cracks every lunch hour
at the Pentagon," McGovern told Reuters.
With the price tag of the Iraq war, five years on, around $500 billion,
economists say the conflict is compounding a national debt that already
tops $9 trillion. Some see Iraq costing up to $3 trillion in the long
run.
Food aid from the United States, the world's top donor, is a prominent
issue as governments and aid groups strive to ensure that aid is not
decimated by skyrocketing prices for grains, oilseeds and fuel.
After global food prices jumped by nearly 40 percent last year, the World
Food Program has been forced to canvass donors for $500 million in
last-minute donations.
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<DIV class=3DdiggButton><EM>By Missy Ryan</EM></DIV>
<P>WASHINGTON, March 25 (Reuters) - The cost of the Iraq war is squeezing f=
unding for U. S. global food aid programs and<IMG height=3D403 hspace=3D10 =
src=3D"http://www.trevorromain.com/blog/archives/sadchildafrica002.jpg" wid=
th=3D300 align=3Dright vspace=3D10> threatens to exacerbate hunger just as =
soaring prices are hitting the world's poor, former U. S. presidential cont=
ender George McGovern said on Tuesday.</P>
<P>McGovern, a special envoy for the U. N. food aid agency, is pressing U. =
S. lawmakers to guarantee funds for child nutrition programs that are part =
of an agriculture bill making its way through Congress.</P>
<P>The former Democratic senator from South Dakota said mandatory funding f=
or the McGovern-Dole program =97 which sends U. S. crops to poor schoolchil=
dren overseas =97 would sail through Congress were it not for the hundreds =
of billions of dollars being poured into Iraq.</P>
<P>"If we didn't have this war going in Iraq, this thing would be a piece o=
f cake. They could drop that much money through the cracks every lunch hour=
at the Pentagon," McGovern told Reuters.</P>
<P>With the price tag of the Iraq war, five years on, around $500 billion, =
economists say the conflict is compounding a national debt that already top=
s $9 trillion. Some see Iraq costing up to $3 trillion in the long run.</P>
<P>Food aid from the United States, the world's top donor, is a prominent i=
ssue as governments and aid groups strive to ensure that aid is not decimat=
ed by skyrocketing prices for grains, oilseeds and fuel.</P>
<P><SPAN id=3Dmore-223></SPAN></P>
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