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Not that you want to see it, but I had to share it with my comments...
> This is for those who are discouraged at the constant bombardment of
> negative news about Iraq from the liberal, anti-Bush media and those who just want to
> be critical for their various reasons.
HH: Where is this liberal, anti-Bush media? I'd like to listen to it.
>
> SINCE PRESIDENT BUSH DECLARED AN END TO MAJOR COMBAT ON MAY 1:
>
> . . . the first battalion of the new Iraqi Army has graduated and is on active duty.
HH: All of them former members of Saddam's old army that we disbanded back in May.
>
> . . . over 60,000 Iraqis now provide security to their fellow citizens.
HH: The same security they provided before?
>
> . . . nearly all of Iraq's 400 courts are functioning.
HH: With judges we appointed, or ones Saddam appointed?
>
> . . . the Iraqi judiciary is fully independent.
HH: As long as they behave themselves.
>
> . . . on Monday, October 6 power generation "hit 4,518 megawatts, exceeding the
> pre-war average."
HH: Not bad, considering how many times we bombed it since Gulf War I. BTW, is this the pre- Gulf War I average, which would be before we bombed it, or the pre GWII average?
>
> . . . all 22 universities and 43 technical institutes and colleges are open,
> as are nearly all primary and secondary schools.
HH: Complete with history books re-written to erase Gulf War I and the Arab-Isreali wars.
>
> . . . by October 1, Coalition forces had rehabbed over 1,500 schools - 500 more than
> their target.
HH: Shoot first, call whatever you hit the target.
>
> . . . teachers earn from 12 to 25 times their former salaries.
HH: In money printed in the US.
>
> . . . all 240 hospitals and more than 1200 clinics are open.
HH: Good thing too, with all the war injuries we caused.
>
> . . . doctor's salaries are at least eight times what they were under Saddam.
HH: Anything to keep the doctors from fleeing the country, eh?
>
> . . . pharmaceutical distribution has gone from essentially nothing to 700 tons in
> May to a current total of 12,000 tons.
HH: Gee, Iraq has better health care than we do. And the reason it was nothing before May is because of the embargo.
>
> . . . the Coalition has helped administer over 22 million vaccination doses to
> Iraq's children.
HH: That's good, since without proper sanitation (destroyed by bombing) disease could run rampant.
>
> . . . a Coalition program has cleared over 14,000 kilometers of Iraq's 27,000
> kilometers of weed-choked canals. They now irrigate tens of thousands of farms. This
> project has created jobs for more than 100,000 Iraqi men and women.
HH: They started to get weed choked after we bombed the pumping stations in 1991.
>
> . . . we have restored over three-quarters of pre-war telephone services and over
> two-thirds of the potable water production.
HH: Pre GWI or II?
>
> . . . there are 4,900 full-service connections. We expect 50,000 by January first.
HH: Wow, over 4,900 telephone connections.
>
> . . . the wheels of commerce are turning. From bicycles to satellite dishes to cars
> and trucks, businesses are coming to life in all major cities and towns.
HH: When they aren't looting, that is.
>
> . . . 95 percent of all pre-war bank customers have service and first-time
> customers are opening accounts daily.
>
> . . . Iraqi banks are making loans to finance businesses.
HH: With our money.
>
> . . . the central bank is fully independent.
HH: Under the American banking commission.
>
> . . . Iraq has one of the world's most growth-oriented investment and banking laws.
HH: Written by us. Now American businesses can get great loans (backed by American taxpayers) to rebuild Iraq infrastructure (destroyed by American bombs).
>
> . . . Iraq (has) a single, unified currency for the first time in 15 years.
HH: yes, no unified currency since GWI.
>
> . . . satellite dishes are legal.
HH: Were they before?
>
> . . . foreign journalists aren't on 10-day visas paying mandatory and
> extortionate fees to the Ministry of Information for minder's and other government
> spies.
HH: Meanwhile, thier minders from the US military aren't charging them.
>
> . . . there is no Ministry of Information.
HH: We call it something different; the 'Office of Strategic Information.
>
> . . . there are more than 170 newspapers.
>
> . . . you can buy satellite dishes on what seems like every street corner.
>
> . . . foreign journalists and everyone else are free to come and go.
>
> . . . a nation that "had not one single element ”legislative, judicial or
> executive -- of a representative government," does.
HH: Apointed by us.
>
> ...in Baghdad alone residents have selected 88 advisory councils.
> Baghdad's first democratic transfer of power in 35 years happened when the city
> council elected its new chairman.
HH: Approved by us.
>
> . . . today in Iraq chambers of commerce, business, school and professional
> organizations are electing their leaders all over the country.
HH: If they pick someone we don't like, we nullify the election.
>
> . . . 25 ministers, selected by the most representative governing body in
> Iraq's history, run the day-to-day business of government.
HH: Ministers selected by us.
>
> . . . the Iraqi government regularly participates in international events.
> Since July the Iraqi government has been represented in over two dozen
> international meetings, including those of the UN General Assembly, the Arab League,
> the World Bank and IMF and, today, the Islamic Conference Summit. The Ministry of
> Foreign Affairs today announced that it is reopening over 30 Iraqi embassies around
> the world.
HH: They would have done that before the war, but we wouldn't let them.
>
> . . . Shia'a religious festivals that were all but banned, aren't.
>
> . . . for the first time in 35 years, in Karbala thousands of Shiites
> celebrate the pilgrimage of the 12th Imam.
>
> . . . the Coalition has completed over 13,000 reconstruction projects, large and
> small, as part of (a) strategic plan for the reconstruction of Iraq.
HH: Rebuilding things we bombed.
>
> . . . Uday and Queasy are dead - and no longer feeding innocent Iraqis to his zoo
> lions, raping the young daughters of local leaders to force cooperation, torturing
> Iraq's soccer players for losing games . . . murdering critics.
HH: Good, I'm glad they are dead. Too bad they couldn't be taken alive, since Uday was in charge of the Chemical Weapons program, though. Of course, if he had been they might have had him say something like they didn't have any.
>
> . . . children aren't imprisoned or murdered when their parents disagree with the
> government.
HH: A great improvement, I'll admit.
>
> . . . political opponents aren't imprisoned, tortured, executed, maimed, or are
> forced to watch their families die for disagreeing with Saddam.
>
> . . . millions of long-suffering Iraqis no longer live in perpetual terror.
HH: They just have to worry about airstrikes.
>
> . . . Saudis will hold municipal elections.
HH: Really?
>
> . . . Qatar is reforming education to give more choices to parents.
HH: Excuse me, but they've been doing that for 10 years.
>
> . . . Jordan is accelerating market economic reforms.
HH: Ever since the old king died 5 years ago, they've been doing that.
>
> . . . the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded for the first time to an Iranian -- a Muslim
> woman who speaks out with courage for human rights, for democracy and for peace.
HH: Good for her.
>
> . . . The current White House administration has not faltered or failed.
HH: Yawn.
>
> . . . Saddam is gone.
>
> . . . Iraq is free.
HH: Free from Saddam, not free from us.
>
> NOT BAD FOR AN ADMINISTRATION WITH NO PLAN, NO DIRECTION, WAS GOING TO BE
> SLAUGHTERED GOING INTO BAGHDAD, AND WAS ONLY IN THIS FOR THE OIL.
HH: 400+ American servicemen dead.
2000+ American servicemen injured.
8000+ dead Iraqis.
And we are shipping oil into Iraq.
But that will change when (if) Halliburton (who just payed Cheney a bonus) gets the oil pipeline running.
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