kathsua...do you know the date of this?
I received this list of facts about Iraq in an email from my beloved mother-in-law. You should be able to verify all of these facts on the Department of Defense website: http://www.defenselink.mil/
Facts: - 47 countries’ have reestablished their embassies in Iraq. –
The Iraqi government currently employs 1.2 million Iraqi people. –
3100 schools have been renovated, 364 schools are under rehabilitation,
263 new schools are now under construction; and
38 new schools have been completed in Iraq. –
Iraq’s higher educational structure consists of 20 Universities,
46 Institutes or colleges and
4 research centers, all currently operating. –
25 Iraq students departed for the United States in January 2005 for the re-established Fulbright program. –
The Iraqi Navy is operational. They have 5 - 100-foot patrol craft, 34 smaller vessels and a naval infantry regiment. –
Iraq’s Air Force consists of three operational squadrons, which includes 9 reconnaissance and 3 US C-130 transport aircraft (under Iraqi operational control) which operate day and night, and will soon add 16 UH-1 helicopters and 4 Bell Jet Rangers. –
Iraq has a counter-terrorist unit and a Commando Battalion. –
The Iraqi Police Service has over 55,000 fully trained and equipped police officers. –
There are 5 Police Academies in Iraq that produce over 3500 new officers every 8 weeks. –
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. –
That 96% of Iraqi children under the age of 5 have received the first 2 series of polio vaccinations. –
4.3 million Iraqi children were enrolled in primary school by mid October. –
There are 1,192,000 cell phone subscribers in Iraq and phone use has gone up 158% -
Iraq has an independent media that consists of 75 radio stations, 180 newspapers and 10 television stations. –
The Baghdad Stock Exchange opened in June of 2004. –
2 candidates in the Iraqi presidential election had a televised debate recently.
What this shows is that Iraq is becoming a well developed country with many opportunities and freedoms afforded to the people. America has not acted imperialistically, on the contrary, we have acted benevolently. Our brave men in women in uniform have done the world a great service by fighting the forces of Islamism, which teaches that men and women do not have equal rights, that freedom in America is evil, and that is praiseworthy to murder infidels in the name of Islam. You want to talk about hope America? Look to the military for providing it through the sacrifice of their lives.
Pelosi and Reid need to see this along with the lib news stations and oh ya The View and Oberbite
2006
The MNF-I has not updated those Factsheets since Jun2006.
E.G.
There are seven sq in the IqAF now.
The number of schools for IPs is a bit more as well...
Thank you for the formatting. I was going to skip reading the thread altogether.