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Posted by Raven on July 30th, 2005
Did you know that 47 countries have re-established their embassies in
Iraq?
Did you know that the Iraqi government employs 1.2 million Iraqi people?
Did you know that 3100 schools have been renovated, 364 schools are under
rehabilitation, 263 schools are now under construction and 38 new schools have been built in Iraq?
Did you know that Iraq’s higher educational structure consists of 20 Universities, 46 Institutes or colleges and 4 research centers?
Did you know that 25 Iraq students departed for the United States in January 2004 for the re-established Fulbright program?
Did you know that the Iraqi Navy is operational? They have 5 100-foot patrol craft, 34 smaller vessels and a naval infantry regiment.
Did you know that Iraq’s Air Force consists of three operation squadrons, 9 reconnaissance and 3 US C-130 transport aircraft which operate day and night, and will soon add 16 UH-1 helicopters and 4 bell jet rangers?
Did you know that Iraq has a counter-terrorist unit and a Commando Battalion?
Did you know that the Iraqi Police Service has over 55,000 fully trained and equipped police officers?
Did you know that there are 5 Police Academies in Iraq that produce over 3500 new officers each 8 weeks?
Did you know there are more than 1100 building projects going on in Iraq?
They include 364 schools, 67 public clinics, 15 hospitals, 83 railroad stations, 22 oil facilities, 93 water facilities and 69 electrical facilities.
Did you know that 96% of Iraqi children under the age of 5 have received the first 2 series of polio vaccinations?
Did you know that 4.3 million Iraqi children were enrolled in primary school by mid October?
Did you know that there are 1,192,000 cell phone subscribers in Iraq and phone use has gone up 158%?
Did you know that Iraq has an independent media that consist of 75 radio stations, 180 newspapers and 10 television stations?
Did you know that the Baghdad Stock Exchange opened in June of 2004?
Did you know that 2 candidates in the Iraqi presidential election had a recent televised debate recently?
OF COURSE WE DIDN’T KNOW! WHY DIDN’T WE KNOW?
OUR MEDIA WOULDN’T TELL US!
Because a Bush- hating media and Democratic Party would rather see the world blow up than lose their power.
Instead of shouting these accomplishments from every rooftop, they would rather show photos of what a few perverted malcontent soldiers have done in prisons in many cases never disclosing the circumstances surrounding the events.
Instead of showing our love for our country, we get photos of flag burning
incidents and people throwing snowballs at presidential motorcades.
The lack of reporting the positive in Iraq serves only one purpose; it undermines the world’s perception of the United States and our soldiers.
IT’S A SHAME THAT SOME AMERICANS WHO WOULD RATHER SEE TERRORISM SUCCEED THAN HAVE A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT.
July 31st, 2005 at 2:40 am
EXCELLENT POST!
I have posted references to some of the above(the positive results of our liberation of the Iraqi people) and to the liberal/ MSM/ anti-Bush crowd’s all too transparent, partisan failure to either acknowledge or report these signs of progress, as though they didn’t exist.
The modern media is not doing its job, period. rather than reporting the facts, they have become nothing more than a propaganda tool for the left.
July 31st, 2005 at 3:17 pm
Thanks a lot for the information. I am printing it to use every time I hear one of the liberal bastards complain about our government. Also to mail to the ACLU office in Denver.
July 31st, 2005 at 6:30 pm
I don’t know where this came from or if it is even all accurate, but it seems like it to me. You can check the DoD website for fastchecking…I pretty much saw all this stuff there.
August 17th, 2005 at 8:40 pm
The info in that email is an excerpt from my article “Accentuating the Negative” published on January 30, 2005 on opinioneditorials.com. I obtained all of the info from the War on Terror section of the DOD website. A followup article, “Ignoring the Positive” was published on opinioneditorials.com on 8/15/05. The email was also cited in a NYT article on 8/15/05. My response to the NYT can be found on opinioneditorials.com – “While Editors Ponder…”
I hope you enjoy all of the articles. Especially the part about the AP not knowing info that I was able to pull off the DOD website.
Who says there is no media bias?
May 22nd, 2006 at 11:46 pm
N o I dont know that, thanks Raven.
Good job Robin, I publish through opinioneditorials.com myself, its a wonderful service and an excellent way to bypass the MSM when there a story that shoudl be out.