Do You Ever Wonder Why?, News from Iraq Options

[maxnmike]

Do you ever wonder why you hear little or no good news from Iraq? I know that doom and gloom sells but it wouldn't kill the media to report some good news every now and then would it? Well here's a little good news.

Did you know that 47 countries have re-established their embassies in Iraq?

Did you know that the Iraqi current 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, all
currently operating?

Did you know that 25 Iraq students departed for the United States in

January 2005 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 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?

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?!

All of the above facts are verifiable on the Department of Defense
website.

Yes I know some will think that this is nothing more than Department of Defense propaganda. Perhaps it is, but at least it's good news.

[bozodog]

You bet things are going on over there. Why does the media just report the doom and gloom? Because that's what sells. The minority against that war are the vocal ones. And they are the ones who see that media crap and keep up the mantra of "see, we told you so"
And, what about Afganistan?? Things are going well there too.

[robroy]

If this information got published then the anti involvement groups would find other reasons to bitch, such as the cost of doing all this good. I think that these are people that are only happy when they are complaing about something.