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AlphaPatriot has this great report:
As I head off to Baghdad for the final weeks of my stay in Iraq, I wanted to say thanks to all of you who did not believe the media. They have done a very poor job of covering everything that has happened. ...This is the list of things that has happened in Iraq recently:
(Please share it with your friends and compare it to the version that your paper is producing.)
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 country had its first 2 billion barrel export of oil in August.
Over 4.5 million people have clean drinking water for the first time ever in Iraq.
The country now receives 2 times the electrical power it did before the war.
100% of the hospitals are open and fully staffed, compared to 35% before the war.
...Girls are allowed to attend school.
Don’t believe for one second that these people do not want us there. I have met many, many people from Iraq that want us there, and in a bad way. They say they will never see the freedoms we talk about but they hope their children will. We are doing a good job in Iraq and I challenge anyone, anywhere to dispute me on these facts. So If you happen to run into John Kerry, be sure to give him my email address and send him to Denison, Iowa. This soldier will set him straight. 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.
Ray Reynolds, SFC
Iowa Army National Guard
234th Signal Battalion
Ray, God bless you and all the soldiers who are bringing freedom to the people of Iraq, and pushing back those who would bring more terrorist actions to our shores.
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Here is what Raed, an Iraqi, wrote on his blog in response to this:
http://raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com/
>> > >-Over 4.5 million people have clean drinking water for the first
>> > time ever in Iraq.
oh yeah, i used to drink with my cow from the river
>> > >-Over 400,000 kids have up to date immunizations.
how did that???
i can say i'm 100% sure no one had any kind of immunization after the war, we used to have special teams going around neighbourhoods for this purpose before the war
>> > >-Over 1500 schools have been renovated and ridded of the weapons
>> > that were
>> > > stored there so education can occur.
Please... please!!! the schools that were "renovated" are the biggest scandal for bechtel, and no one used schools to store weapons! i mean... the ones that occupied the school in my neighbourhood were soldiers from the American army,,, that was right after the fall of Baghdad...
>> > >-The port of Uhm Qasar was renovated so grain can be off loaded
>> > from ships faster.
to steal more oil.
>> > >-School attendance is up 80% from levels before the war.
liar liar!! i know sooooo many people that stop sending their children to school after the war, and we used to have firm laws and rules before the war that let all the children go to school
>> > >-The country had it's first 2 billion barrel export of oil in
>> > August.
iraq used to export more than 3.5 million a day before the war, and even if we exported 2 million now, where is the money going?
>> > >-The country now receives 2 times the electrical power it did
>> > before the war
oh yeah... thats why u had electricity all the time before the war, and six hours a day now
>> > >-100% of the hospitals are open and fully staffed compared to 35%
>> > before the war.
did he count the destroyed hospital at nasryya? and the closed hospital of najaf?
hospitals were functioning in a very good way before the war, the situation is tragic now
>> > >-Elections are taking place in every major city and city councils
>> > are in place.
haha! :*)
and who won in your elections?
AsSadr?
>> > >-Sewer and water lines are installed in every major city.
god!
i never saw a single project for water after the war
>> > >-Over 60,000 police are patrolling the streets.
>> > >-Over 100,000 Iraqi civil defence police are securing the country.
>> > >-Over 80,000 Iraqi soldiers are patrolling the streets side by
>> > side with US soldiers.
thats why we have the best security in the world
>> > >-Over 400,000 people have telephones for the first time ever.
hahahahahahahaha!!!
people who have their phones working are very lucky
>> > >-Students are taught field sanitation and hand washing techniques
>> > to prevent the spread
>> > > of germs.
god damn it!!!!!
hand washing!!!!!!!
habeebi!!!
hand washing... TECHNIQUES!!!!
i mean!!! this is a victory for the bush administration! god! iraqi children are well educated now with extremely special techniques... whooaaa!!
thanx Mr. bushygiene... but i'm sure we had a soap in our house before the war