In yet more news from Iraq to cause despondency, the United Nations via its UNICEF sector reveals that conditions for Iraqi children have gone again from bad to worse.

According to UNICEF, only two-thirds of Iraqis have access to clean water.

A dearth of electrical power has already been widely reported, along with the paradox that Iraqis, sitting atop the world's second-largest recoverable oil reserves, have to stand in line for fuel. Local Iraqi markets and the ordinary, everyday commerce of food, clothing and other necessities have been jeopardized by ongoing violence -- notwithstanding highly publicized tours by visiting ...   more »