Hey did anyone see O`Reilly tonight with actor Gary Sinese (Lt. Dan)? Freggin` great, he talked about how our troops are fixing up the Iraqi schools and Gary is holding a fund drive looking for donations for school supplies, like books, paper and pencils for the Iraqi kids. I was wondering why I haven`t seen much of Mr. Sinese lately. I would say it`s because he`s busy with this fund drive, but another side of me supects that since he is for the citizens of Iraq and not the hero of Nancy Pelosi, Saddam Hussein, that he may have been blacklisted from the toilet of mutated ego and liberalism; Hollywood. I tell you, it just goes to show how incredibly biased the media is, I watch O`Reilly once in a while but if I didn`t tonight I would have never known about this book drive. All you get is the s***t don`t you? All the negatives are promoted constantly and the positives are completely ignored. The prison deal, the few soldiers involved equals the entire military and Bush and the United States in the eyes of CBS and the NY Times. The people who are hoping for a better life in Iraq are constantly worked against, the terrorists are emboldened, given more press, given the "excuse" to kill Nick Berg, and yet they never relent. The liberal scum mutts continue to take sides against this country day after day after day after day. Promote all the negative and all the positive goes out the window, screw how it affects our soldiers and the Iraqis. Lets see Dan Rather once after reading all the names of our men and women who gave their lives in Iraq, lets see him read the names of the millions of lives if not billions who have been saved and will be saved down the road once this scourge of humanity, the absolute sinister disease of terrorism and liberalism is wiped from the absolute face of this earth.
Got this e-mail today.
Ponder This
This is a letter from Ray Reynolds, a medic in the
Iowa Army National Guard, serving in Iraq:
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. I am sorry that I have not been able to visit all of you during my two week leave back home. And just so you can rest at night knowing something is happening in Iraq that is noteworthy, I thought I would pass this on to you. 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 port of Uhm Qasar was renovated so grain can be off-loaded from ships faster.
* 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.
* Elections are taking place in every major city, and city councils are in place.
* Sewer and water lines are installed in every major city.
* Over 60,000 police are patrolling the streets.
* Over 100,000 Iraqi civil defense police are securing the country.
* Over 80,000 Iraqi soldiers are patrolling the streets side by side with US soldiers.
* Over 400,000 people have telephones for the first time ever
* Students are taught field sanitation and hand washing techniques
to prevent the spread of germs.
* An interim constitution has been signed.
* Girls are allowed to attend school.
* Textbooks that don't mention Saddam are in the schools for the first time in 30 years.
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