Posted on 01/18/2005 4:31:51 PM PST by John Hammond
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Iraq Facts Education 9 Million New math and science textbooks printed and distributed - Pro-Saddam propaganda has been extracted 85% Primary and secondary schools that have re-opened since the overthrow of Saddam 159,000 Student desks distributed to Iraqi schools 81,735 Teaching kits distributed to Iraqi primary school teachers Human Rights 71% Proportion of Iraqis in a February 2004 survey that said they expected their lives to be even better in a year 76,000 New jobs created by the Iraqi National Employment Program 600 New judges presently working in Iraqi Courts of Law 170 Newspapers currently published in Iraq 33% Percentage of Iraqis that receive worldwide information via satellite 70 Mosques refurbished by coalition forces Healthcare 25% Increase in immunization rates among Iraqi children 75 Iraqi medical facilities refurbished by the Coalition Provisional Authority 700,000 Infrastructure 16 Average number of hours of electricity for Iraqi citizens; a 40 percent increase from levels under Saddam 20 Million Iraqis of the country's 27 million citizens receive clean water due to new water and sanitation projects 1,005,580 Iraqi telephone subscribers; a 20 percent increase from under Saddam Government and Politics 85% Percentage of small Iraqi towns had fully functioning municipalities only 4 months after the beginning of the war 81 Iraqi women serve on neighborhood and district councils around Baghdad 6 Iraqi women appointed as Cabinet-level ministers in the newly-formed Iraqi Interim Government |
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Another one of those self-appointed "experts" that advocate quitting early.
We're there. We're in the center of gravity of the Arab/Persian-Islamic world and if we persevere, we have a chance of inserting freedom - or a form of it - right between the Gulf theocracies, the tyranny of kings, and the Baathist thugs.
If we quit, the chaos gets worse: full-up civil war in Iraq, with a scramble for influence among the neighbors. Iraq becomes the new breeding/training ground for a resurgent Al Quaeda.
We're there and we have to stay the course - for ourselves, the Iraqi people that are trying to be free, and the rest of the civilized world.
Interesting 2nd post. Welcome to Free Republic, I think. You might want to respond to some of the posts that have been directed towards you.
This is false. The most callow student of history can name a half-dozen centuries with more wars. The 20th simply displayed more efficient ones to more people's eyes.
We went into Vietnam fearing the "domino effect," although the struggle there had little relationship to events in any other Asian country.
This is false. Can this author seriously consider that the Vietnam war had little relationship to events in Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Burma?
We were rushed into the war in Iraq by the assertion that little, poor, remote Iraq was at the point of attacking mighty America...
This is false.
Iraq is a shattered country. Its infrastructure has been pulverized by the "shock and awe" of the American invasion.
This is false. It wasn't even true immediately after the war, much less so now.
Thus, even when, as in the Fallujah battle, the insurgents were outnumbered at least 20:1
This is false. We don't have that many troops in Iraq.
Saddam Hussein's regime was certainly evil, but Iraq was not a terrorist state. It had no significant relationship with any terrorist organization...
This is false.
I could go on, but this tapestry of ignorance and outright lies isn't worth the time. That the author pretends to be an academic with a grasp of either history, politics, or the events in Iraq is truly embarrassing. In point of fact, events are getting increasingly difficult for such lofty intellects to explain away, and after the election they will be much more so. The only truth in this entire tissue of misrepresentation is the statement that peoples want to control their own destiny. Now the Iraqis do, and nothing the terrorists or academic pretenders can do will stop it.
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Not another one.....
Geez - this is getting out of hand. They should spend as much time thinking about their positions as they do pestering us - they'd be a lot better off...
Blah, blah, blah............TWO MORE DAYS!
You want to be sure that our brave troops died in vain? Fine. Let's just pull out of Iraq, leave the Iraqis to their own devices before they're fully ready, and let the head-sawing, bombing insurgents overrun the place. You think our word is no good now, just wait until we do that. The Iraqis would never trust us again, and they would be right. Other Middle Eastern governments would view us with scorn because our word would officially be no good. Terrorists would know that we run when the going gets tough, and we would become more vulnerable.
Sorry, but I trust our President.
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State Department. Gee, that's a suprise. It's amazing how many people would rather sit in their own crap year after year rather than take a chance and make a change.
This whole boring article can be recapped in 12 words "Surrender and get out of Iraq like the french love to do." I don't care who the source is, it's defeatist crap.
He neglected to include the OKC bombing which was, IMHO, an operation aided in part, with Iraqi help.Just remember what bin Laden said - we pulled out of Somalia, and he decided the US was a paper tiger.
Oh, and enjoy your short time here. I expect you'll be leaving soon.
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