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Forwarded by James H Booth/RWS/Raytheon/US on 12/17/2003 01:22 PM
Subject: Facts Rarely Reported About Progress in Iraq
From the Commanding Officer at MWSS-171 to his Marines.

Marines and Sailors,
As we approach the end of the year I think it is important to share a few thoughts about what you've accomplished, directly in some cases, and indirectly in many others. I am speaking about what the Bush Administration and each of you has contributed by wearing the uniform, because the fact that you wear the uniform contributes 100% to the capability of the nation to send a few onto the field to execute national policy. As you read about these achievements you are a part of I would call your attention to two things:
1. This is good news that hasn't been "judged" fit to print or report on TV.
2. It is much easier to point out the errors a man makes when he makes the tough decisions, rarely is the positive as aggressively pursued.
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.
... over 60,000 Iraqis now provide security to their fellow citizens.
... nearly all of Iraq's 400 courts are functioning.
... the Iraqi judiciary is fully independent.
... on Monday, October 6 power generation hit 4,518 megawatts-exceeding
the prewar average.
... all 22 universities and 43 technical institutes and colleges are
open, as are nearly all primary and secondary schools.
... by October 1, Coalition forces had rehab-ed over 1,500 schools -
500 more than scheduled.
... teachers earn from 12 to 25 times their former salaries.
... all 240 hospitals and more than 1200 clinics are open.
... doctors salaries are at least eight times what they were under Saddam.
... pharmaceutical distribution has gone from essentially nothing to 700 tons in May to a current total of 12,000 tons.
... the Coalition has helped administer over 22 million vaccinations to Iraq's children.
... a Coalition program has cleared over 14,000 kilometers of Iraq's
27,000 kilometers of weed-choked canals which now irrigate tens of thousands of farms. This project has created jobs for more than 100,000 Iraqi men and women.
... we have restored over three-quarters of prewar telephone services and over two-thirds of the potable water production.
... there are 4,900 full-service telephone connections. We expect 50,000 by year-end.
... 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.
... 95 percent of all prewar bank customers have service and first-time customers are opening accounts daily.
... Iraqi banks are making loans to finance businesses.
... the central bank is fully independent.
...Iraq has one of the worlds most growth-oriented investment and banking laws.
...Iraq has a single, unified currency for the first time in 15 years.
... satellite TV dishes are legal.
... foreign journalists aren't on 10-day visas paying mandatory and extortionate fees to the Ministry of Information for "minders" and other government spies.
... there IS no Ministry of 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, now does.
... 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.
... today in Iraq chambers of commerce, business, school and professional organizations are electing their leaders all over the country.
... 25 ministers, selected by the most representative governing body in Iraq's history, run the day-to-day business of government.
... 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.
... Shia 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.
... Uday and Queasy are dead - and no longer feeding innocent Iraqis to the zoo lions, raping the young daughters of local leaders to force cooperation, torturing Iraq's soccer players for losing games, or murdering critics.
... children aren't imprisoned or murdered when their parents disagree with the government.
... political opponents aren't imprisoned, tortured, executed, maimed, or are forced to watch their families die for disagreeing with Saddam.
... millions of longsuffering Iraqis no longer live in perpetual terror.
... Saudis will hold municipal elections.
...Qataris reforming education to give more choices to parents.
...Jordanis accelerating market economic reforms.
... 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.
... Saddam is gone.
... Iraq is free.
... President Bush has not faltered or failed.
... Yet, little or none of this information has been published by the Press corps that prides itself on bringing you all the news that's important. Iraq under US lead control has come further in six months than Germany did in seven years or Japan did in nine years following WWII. Military deaths from fanatic Nazi's, and Japanese numbered in the thousands and continued for over three years after WWII victory was declared.
It took the US over four months to clear away the twin tower debris, let alone attempt to build something else in its place.
Now, take into account that Congress fought President Bush on every aspect of his handling of this country's war and the post-war reconstruction; and that they continue to claim on a daily basis on national TV that this conflict has been a failure.
Taking everything into consideration, even the unfortunate loss of our brothers and sisters in this conflict, do you think anyone else in the world could have accomplished as much as the United States and the Bush administration in so short a period of time?
These are things worth writing about. Get the word out. Write to someone you think may be able to influence our Congress or the press to tell the story. Above all, be proud that you are a part of this historical precedent.


I wonder why you haven't heard about this??????????? Maybe because it doesn't fit the liberal media's agenda!!!!

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lots of good stuff there!~
 

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87 billion dollars buys a lot of stuff. It would have bought a lot of stuff for America's own inner cities as well.
 

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Or the inner city folks can take some responsibility,find a job and take care of themselves.

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kman why would they want to get a job then they stop getting free money from all us hard working gambleing americans , why do you think they all want dean the more gov programs the better
 

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whyguy - I hear ya...... Frustrating isn't it!

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it is a scarry world we live in to think what if gore was pres and sep 11th happend , we would have just sat on our asses and waited for the next terror attc. and done nothing but make more dept. to find out why, and sell it to the american people.tell them they are working on it but all they are doing is spending more money of the people that work and still letting warefair and inner city get bigger and bigger and tax us more and more reduce our military and spend on gov dept see what color our toliet paper should be
 

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Liberal media? The American corporate-controlled media are nothing but a bunch of GW Bush asslickers and that's a fact. Bush is an incompetent liar but they won't hammer him with the truth because they're scared to death of Karl Rove.
 

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KMAN

Please, enough of your crying about a liberal based media agenda. The radio blast all day long with your ultra-conservative viewpoints expounded by table pounding George Bush supporters. Aren't they part of the media?
Is there something wrong with everyone that disagrees with your opinion? Do you think everyone that has a different viewpoint than you or the Republican Party is stupid or ignorant? Some people (including myself) believe this war is not worth the price that we are paying in human life and dollars and cents.
Most of the people we've "liberated" hated us before we blew the hell out of "their" country, they hate us while we are occuping "their" country, and they'll hate us when we leave "their" country.
Iraq has the largest reserves of oil in the world, but the taxpayers of the U.S. have to pay to rebuild the infrastructure that we destroyed. I'm sure this war makes sense to you, but maybe you would feel diferent if one of the soldiers that have died in this tragic war was your son or daughter.
But I guess it's all worth the price because they can now get satellite dishes, get loans from banks restocked with our money, and 10% of the phones are working.
 

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Whyguy

Maybe if Al Gore had been president while you were in school you would have learned to put a sentence together and spell correctly.
 

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I post this long post about how much we are doing in Iraq and the only liberal response is "Liberal Media? What Liberal media? All of the media is conservative"

Atleast libs are accepting the fact that we are doing great things for Iraq and the rest of the world.


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i get so fed up with you libs this is why i dont use sentence structure. why dont you go start another gov program to understand why i dont use spell check, that sounds like a good way for you dems to make hard working people spend more tax dollars
 

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by whyguy:
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i get so fed up with you libs this is why i dont use sentence structure. why dont you go start another gov program to understand why i dont use spell check, that sounds like a good way for you dems to make hard working people spend more tax dollars<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I don't know buddy, I'm not sure we could think of enough programs to waste 87 billion like your fearful appointed monarchist has.
 

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whyguy - that was a good one! it's just like libs to change arguments as soon as one of them fails. they can't find any problems with my original post so they go to spelling. it's not the first time and unfortunately won't be the last. LMFAO!!!!!



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I call bullshit.

As a former officer in the Marine Corps, I can tell you that nobody is gonna tell his Marines what a great job George Bush is doing, or what a great job any politician is doing because the service is supposed to be apolitical. Never have I seen that happen and if it did, the Marine would be reprimanded.

He might have said something to the effect of what a great job the military is doing, but that stuff about George Bush has not faltered, has not failed, that was made up by some hack writer.
 

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Are Marines trained to question leadership?
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Aside from the blind worship of our commander and thief I noticed something odd in this thread. KMan's title says, "Facts the Liberal media has failed to report about the progress in Iraq", yet the actually fabricated article reads, "Facts Rarely Reported About Progress in Iraq".

I'm a bit unclear on what you're trying to fabricate here - are you falsely claiming that the liberals simply not reporting? Are they only rarely reporting? Or did you just assume that the author was saying that it has been reported by every that is not a liberal?
 

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by lander:
Aside from the blind worship of our commander and thief I noticed something odd in this thread. KMan's title says, "Facts the Liberal media has _failed to report_ about the progress in Iraq", yet the actually fabricated article reads, "_Facts Rarely Reported_ About Progress in Iraq".

I'm a bit unclear on what you're trying to fabricate here - are you falsely claiming that the liberals simply not reporting? Are they only rarely reporting? Or did you just assume that the author was saying that it has been reported by every that is not a liberal?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Kman, haven't you read Lander's Rules of Forum Posting that states "the title of any post made must match precisely the title of any article quoted in said post".

Sure it is petty KMan, but rules are rules.
 

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Brilliant incite. Mocking my question sure beats addressing the misleading title
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by lander:
Brilliant incite. Mocking my question sure beats addressing the misleading title
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Lander, if you address a bit of the substance in KMan's post, I will address your 'misleading' title complaints.
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And community college smack was always funny back in the day. Glad to see you bringing it back into style.
 

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