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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (37435)	2/16/2005 10:32:23 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Orc: solved no freedom issues. Currently there are little or no services in Iraq These are straight from Democrat talking points. See below for rebuttal to second point. The first is false on the face and requires no rebuttal. A better opportunity for freeing the Iraqi people was tossed away when the Shia were encouraged to rise up against Saddam, and then we did not support the uprising resulting in a slaughter of many people and another 12 years of Saddam. All it would have taken is some air support. Let Iraqis free themselves. The best revolution for freedom comes from within...not from outside The issue was so much more complex than you understand. It would take several thousand words to do it justice. Here is a highly condensed version. 1) Iraq invaded Kuwait. 2) Arab neighbors agreed to fund military reaction. 3) Coalition (oops US and the coerced) poised military on the border. 4) Iraq looted Kuwait, raping, murdering, and planting fake identities. 5) Coalition invaded, routing Iraqis from Kuwait. 6) Coalition followed Iraqis into Iraq. 7) Arabs threatened to withdraw committed funding if coalition removed Saddam from power. 8) Coalition stopped advance. 9) PResident Bush 41 and others encouraged Shiite revolt. A) Chemical Ali gamed US by using helicopters to deploy chemical WMDs. B) With nascent revolution stopped, Saddam won that round. You are right that we failed our moral test to support freedom loving people after Gulf War I. That wrong has been righted. Good News from Iraq: Not mine but kind of lays it out there. Did you know that 47 countries have re-established their embassies in Iraq? Did you know that the Iraqi government employs 1.2 million Iraqi People? Did you know that 3100 schools have been renovated, 364 schools are under rehabilitation, 263 schools are now under construction and 38 new schools have been built in Iraq? Did you know that Iraq's higher educational structure consists of 20 Universities, 46 Institutes or colleges and 4 research centers? Did you know that 25 Iraq students departed for the United States in January 2004 for the re-established Fulbright program? Did you know that the Iraqi Navy is operational? They have 5- 100-foot patrol craft, 34 smaller vessels and a navel infantry regiment. Did you know that Iraq's Air Force consists of three operation squadrons, 9 reconnaissance and 3 US C-130 transport aircraft which operate day and night, and will soon add 16 UH-1 helicopters and 4 bell jet rangers? Did you know that Iraq has a counter-terrorist unit and a Commando Battalion? Did you know that the Iraqi Police Service has over 55,000 fully trained and equipped police officers? Did you know that there are 5 Police Academies in Iraq that produce over 3500 new officers each 8 weeks? Did you know 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. Did you know that 96% of Iraqi children under the age of 5 have received the first 2 series of polio vaccinations? Did you know that 4.3 million Iraqi children were enrolled in primary school by mid October? Did you know that there are 1,192,000 cell phone subscribers in Iraq and phone use has gone up 158%? Did you know that Iraq has an independent media that consist of 75 radio stations, 180 newspapers and 10 television stations? Did you know that the Baghdad Stock Exchange opened in June of 2004? Did you know that 2 candidates in the Iraqi presidential election had a recent televised debate recently? OF COURSE WE DIDN'T KNOW! WHY DIDN'T WE KNOW? BECAUSE OUR MEDIA WOULDN'T TELL US! Because the media and Democratic Party would rather see the world blow up than lose their power. Instead of shouting these accomplishments from every rooftop, they would rather show photos of what a few perverted malcontent soldiers have done in prisons in many cases never disclosing the circumstances surrounding the events. Instead of showing our love for our country, we get photos of flag burning incidents at Abu Ghraib and people throwing snowballs at presidential motorcades. The lack of accentuating the positive in Iraq serves only one purpose. It undermines the worlds perception of the United States and our soldiers. I AM ASHAMED OF MY FELLOW AMERICANS WHO WOULD RATHER SEE TERRORISM SUCCEED THAN A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT. ---- This was verifiable on the Department of Defense website.