dg806

War by nature is a horrible thing. There’s no doubt about it and we hear about the atrocities on a daily basis as the major media of the world emphasize the killings and maiming, the beheadings and the deaths of military and innocent people alike.

However there is something missing from the major news reports, something very important and that is the good things which have been accomplished by our troops in Iraq.

The information I quote here comes not from some news organization or government source but from one of the combat troops who has experienced the positive side of things on the battleground.

I’d like to borrow from his email and share a few with you.

1. Over 400,000 kids in Iraq have up to date immunizations. Just think about something we take for advantage for our kids.

2. School attendance is up 80% from levels before the war.

3. Over 1,500 schools have been renovated and ridded of the weapons stored there so they can be used to educate the children again.

4. The port of Uhm Qasar has been renovated so that grain can be off loaded faster.

5. The country had its first 2 billion barrel export of oil in August.

6. Over four and a half million Iraqis are drinking clean water for the first time ever.

7.The country receives twice the electrical power it had before the war.

8. One hundred percent of hospitals are open and fully staffed compared to 35 percent before the war.

9. Elections are taking place in every major city and city councils are already in place.

10. Sewer and water are installed in every major city.

11. Over sixtythousand police are patrolling the streets.

12. Over 100,000 Iraqi civil defense police are securing the country.

13. Over 80,000 Iraqi soldiers are patrolling the streets beside U.S. soldiers.

14. Over 400,000 people have telephones for the first time ever.

15. Students are taught field sanitation and hand washing techniques to prevent the spread of germs.

16. An interim constitution has been signed.

17. Girls are allowed to go to school.

18. Textbooks don’t mention Saddam for the first time in 30 years.

These are the words of a United States soldier.

“Don’t believe for one second these people don’t want us there, I have met many people from Iraq who want us there in a bad way. They say they will never see the freedoms we talk about but maybe their children will.

We are doing a good job in Iraq and I challenge anyone anywhere to dispute me on these facts.

If you are like me and very disgusted with how this period of rebuilding has been portrayed email this to a friend and let them know there are good things happening”.

1-Andro Rx Pro-hormone

Dale Mabry

Most of these email things are made up and I have no way of checking these facts.

I can see pics of blowed up Iraqis, though.

If sense were common, everyone would have it.

4/2007-Current 75th Ranked most popular image 1 spot behind Prince's bulge...

redspy

Damn DG, did you buy a pair of those Bush Rose Tinted Glasses?

Du

Killed soldiers grandmother confronts Cheney:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor..._grandmother_2

From the end of the article:

Hobbs recalled the words of her grandson a few days before he died, a memory to which she proudly clings.


"He said, 'Grandma, if anything is going to happen to any of us, make sure they continue with the war until it's finished,' " she said.

My IronMag Journal

redspy

The Bush Administration has spent just $1.1 billion of the $18.4 billion Congress approved for Iraqi reconstruction.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washing...ens-iraq_x.htm

maniclion

Accurate

• Over 400,000 kids have up-to-date immunizations.
  
• School attendance is up 80% from levels before the war.
  
• Over 1,500 schools have been renovated and rid of the weapons stored there so education can occur.
  
• The port of Uhm Qasar was renovated so grain can be off-loaded from ships faster.
  
• 100% of the hospitals are open and fully staffed, compared to 35% before the war.
  
• An interim constitution has been signed.
  
• Textbooks that don't mention Saddam are in the schools for the first time in 30 years.

Inaccurate

• The country had its first 2 billion barrel export of oil in August.
  (Oil Production hit 2 million barrells a day in April, 2004)
  
• Over 4.5 million people have clean drinking water for the first time ever in Iraq.
  (While some treatment facilities needed repair, clean drinking water is not a new thing in Iraq)
  
• The country now receives 2 times the electrical power it did before the war.
  (Electricity production is only slightly higher than pre-war levels)
  
• Elections are taking place in every major city, and city councils are in place.
  (Elections remain a point of contention and have been suspended in some cities)

Unproven or misleading

• Sewer and water lines are installed in every major city.
  (Work is still underway)
  
• Over 60,000 police are patrolling the streets.
  (The goal is to train and implement 35 - 50 thousand. The first class of 400 graduated in January, 2004)
  
• Over 100,000 Iraqi civil defense police are securing the country.
  (About 25,000 were hired and trained as of February 2004)
  
• Over 80,000 Iraqi soldiers are patrolling the streets side by side with US soldiers.
  (Only 2,000 were operational as of February 2004)
  
• Over 400,000 people have telephones for the first time ever.
  (Most of the post-war work on the telephone system has focused on restoring service lost or damaged during the war)
  
• Girls are allowed to attend school.
  (Girls have been allowed to attend school since 1970, more boys than girls typically enrolled

"The Coalition did a very lousy job. We are not asking them to admit it, but at least let them keep quiet and not go bragging about it.

Some Iraqi said, and I quote "The Americans took the cotton out of our mouths and put it in their ears". This is exactly what happened here." - Ahmed Kharrufa

"We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Natures inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
Thomas Edison: In conversation with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone