We do know from several reports that there are signs of malnutrition in Iraq. Recently USA Today reported:

A study by a Norwegian institute says the percentage of Iraqi children ages 6 months to 5 years suffering from malnutrition has nearly doubled to 7.7% from 4% in March 2003

Of course we like to see such compassion as describe in yesterdays (here slightly shortened) AP story:

An impromptu relief effort was mobilizing Thursday in southern Nevada after an Army Reserve officer sent home a plea for food to feed starving Iraqi …

Army Reserve Capt. Gabriella Cook begged her friends to come to the aid of undernourished. She said the Iraqi … have been eating table scraps and garbage.

Cook wrote in an e-mail to friends in Las Vegas and Henderson. "Some of them have already died. Half of them are sick. We have no way of buying any actual food here."

The Las Vegas Valley Humane Society was swamped with offers of cash and bags of food after a Nevada newspaper on Wednesday reported Cook’s plea.

Judith Ruiz, president of the nonprofit humane society, accepted a $5,000 check from a Las Vegas sports gambling handicapper and said she was trying to arrange transportation for the food.

Cook was elated, said Diana Paivanas, a friend in Las Vegas who said offers of help came from people in states including New Hampshire, Florida, Texas, Ohio and New York. Paivanas said pallets of food had been contributed, and the humane society was looking for storage space while awaiting shipment to Iraq.

But military spokesman Staff Sgt. Don Dees said Thursday the care and feeding of Iraqi … was separate from U.S. military.

Now, like Mrs. Cook, we do like dogs, but has she and the US military really understood Carl von Clausewitz and the Concept of Schwerpunkt, the focal points where certain forces come together, in their Iraq endeavors?