Posted on 08/01/2005 11:42:29 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
foreign reporter recently asked Monsignor Rabban al Qas, Chaldean bishop of Amadiyah and Arbil, whether there is any good news coming out of Iraq. "Twenty-three Iraqis are killed every day in Iraq," the interviewer observed. "Nearly two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, there is no security as yet. Is there still hope in Iraq?" To which the monsignor replied:
What the media portray is true: explosions, killings, attacks. But if you see how much order, discipline, transport, displacements, and work have improved, there is a change for the better compared to one or two years ago. Now people understand there is a government, the structure of a new state. Thousands and thousands of allied and Iraqi soldiers are present. There is a constitution which is being drawn up, laws are being enacted. The presence of authority is recognised. This was not the case before. And Al-Qaeda integralists and terrorists coming from abroad seek to penetrate Iraq precisely to destroy the beginnings of this social organization.
A war for the future of Iraq is going on, but that war is being fought not only with guns and explosives. Terrorists and insurgents are killing soldiers and civilians and sabotaging infrastructure, and the Iraqi and coalition security forces in turn are hunting down the enemies of the new Iraq. But every step towards self-government, every new job created, every new school opened, is a small victory against those who would want to turn Iraq's clock back three--or 1,300--years. Below are some of these stories that often get lost in the fog and smoke of war.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
And here is a roundup of the past two weeks' good news from Iraq as reported by the Mainstream Media:
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Anybody have a statistical average of the # of births of Iraqi children each day???
This can't possibly be true. There has been no mention of this on the Commie News Network, PMSNBC, SeeBS, or especially that fountain of truth and righteousness, Err America.
Anybody have a statistical average of the # of births of Iraqi children each day???
Anybody have a statistical average of the # of births of Iraqi children each day???
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?FORM=MSNH&srch_type=0&q=Iraqi+Births
Then use this.
By using these statistics, it is reasonable to extapolate this out. But I am not a math guy so I am unsure how to do it. I come up with a number that seems absurdely high.
2,321 births a day.
I have a weird idea about the Iraq good news/bad news stuff. I'm almost glad some of the stuff Chenkoff lists isn't covered on the news because he lists all these $amounts for aid and building (US and foreign). Couple million here. Couple million there. Couple more millions over there. I think after a while some people would get angry about this. Not that they want to hear about bombings all the time. But money, money, money could drive them crazy. Weird, I know.
"Anybody have a statistical average of the # of births of Iraqi children each day???"
OOOPs, forgot one link in the 1st post.
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?FORM=MSNH&srch_type=0&q=Iraqi+Births
Then use this.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/iz.html
By using these statistics, it is reasonable to extapolate this out. But I am not a math guy so I am unsure how to do it. I come up with a number that seems absurdely high.
2,321 births a day.
But money, money, money could drive them crazy. Weird, I know
Funny how the nearly useless spending of tens of billions into domestic Homeland Security doesn't drive them nuts.
Yeah -- but homeland security money is please-please-please-save-my-ass money. It's the my ass versus their ass school of economics.
Hmmm. 26 million people so divide by 70 (avg life expectancy),
and each age cohort could be 350,000.
Divide by 365 and you get about 1,000 births a day.
This is surely a low-ball estimate as age cohorts gets smaller with age and it doesnt account for population growth.
I feel *alot* safer from knowing we are kicking butt in Iraq than the billions we spend on TSA employees wanding grandmas and making people take off shoes at the airport.
This is surely a low-ball estimate as age cohorts gets smaller with age and it doesnt account for population growth
Thanks WOSG!
spend on TSA employees wanding grandmas and making people take off shoes at the airport.
And don't forget feeling up every attractive female in sight.
The time has come to change course in Iraq
By TONY MAGLIANO
In his latest address the president rhetorically asked: “Is the sacrifice worth it? It is worth it, and is vital to the future security of our country.”
Well, what has been gained? One brutal dictator is in jail. Now, what have we lost?
We have lost more than 1,740 American troops, 100,000 innocent Iraqi civilians, the infrastructure of Iraq, more than $220 billion, numerous nonviolent possibilities to reduce terrorism and the respect of most of the world.
Furthermore, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has warned that this war may last 12 years!
What a mess. And most of it is the result of a manipulation of the facts.
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Click the link above for more.
Ping
"Tony Magliano is a columnist for Catholic News Service."
And that is my beef. Being from a "Catholic" organization (read:Christian) you'd think they'd at least try to be honest. Instead, he spews twisted information and half-truths to fit his rant against this "unjust" (in his eyes) war.
The facts are there for these liberal reporters (or columnists) to see but they ignore them.
At this time, I'm thinking about writing a letter to the publisher of the Texas Catholic but at the same time, he's so darn liberal and anti-Bush that he probably would never print it.
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