Depends on how you define good.
Full authority of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was formally handed back to the Iraqi people today at a ceremony held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building. Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, III, Coalition Provisional Authority Administrator, congratulated Mr. Hoshyar Zebari, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and his staff for their many accomplishments, including Iraq’s reinstatement into the Arab League, the United Nations, and Organization of the Islamic Conference.
“Already for months, the professionals of the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs have been making their own decisions and acting upon them,” Ambassador Bremer remarked.
Sunday, May 9 -- Today Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) Administrator Ambassador L. Paul Bremer congratulated the Iraqi Minister of Water Resources, Dr. Abdul Latif, for his Ministry’s important advance and progress on the road to sovereignty. Today’s transfer is part of the return of control over Iraq’s ministries to the Iraqi people.
Amb. Bremer Transfers Full Sovereignty to Ministry of Industry and Minerals
Baghdad -- "The return of one of Iraq’s largest employers to Iraqi hands marks a significant milestone on Iraq’s path to sovereignty now just 51 days away" said Ambassador Paul Bremer, Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in a ceremony held on May 11th. Bremer went on to congratulate the Iraqi Minister of Industry and Minerals for his exemplary transparency and public spiritedness.
Its doing far better than what the press doom and gloom is making out but it could have been far far better if Bush and his idiots had not screwed it up as they did. They had no real plans after the war.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has according to Andrew S. Natsios, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development,
We have rehabilitated eight power plants and are installing three new ones. We are also replacing towers, stringing wires, rebuilding lines and installing new generators.
-- We have played a key role in restoring Iraq's transport and communication systems. Among other things, we have repaired the Baghdad airport and the country's deep-water port. We have rebuilt bridges, improved rail service and repaired the fiber optic network.
-- We expect child mortality and water-borne disease to drop sharply as a result of our commitment to repair and rehabilitate the water and sewerage system throughout the whole of the country. We are in the process of vaccinating 3 million Iraqi children. We are reequipping 600 health-care clinics, training doctors and nurses and distributing high-protein supplementary food rations to hundreds of thousands of pregnant and nursing mothers.
-- USAID has also helped uncover mass graves where as many as 400,000 Iraqi victims of Saddam's genocide campaigns lie buried. Hundreds of thousands of others, including untold numbers of children, died from deliberate neglect, indifference and politically motivated deprivation.
And we're helping the Iraqi Human Rights Association inventory the mass murder that took place under Saddam. A spokesman of the group put things very well when he said that what Iraq needs most of all is "not technicians and engineers" -- "but someone to rebuild our souls."
-- Which brings us to USAID's efforts to rehabilitate and restructure the Iraqi educational system so that it can shed the legacy of four decades of totalitarian rule and enter the ranks of the civilized world as a fully modern and productive nation.
-- We're also working to build democracy at the grassroots, empowering the many enlightened and talented people of Iraq, men and women, who were repressed and silenced under Ba'athist rule.
We have built local governments throughout the country, so they can deliver the essential services a modern Iraq needs. Our efforts have resulted in the formation of councils in 16 governates, 78 districts, 192 cities and sub-districts and 392 neighborhoods representing 80 percent of the country's population.
We've got a lot yet to do -- but what USAID's dedicated workers have achieved so far, sometimes at considerable personal risk, should be a source of pride for every American.
my friend, iraq is not near as bad as sudan and some others. Just because the bbc and others only report the bad newss and ignore the good hardly makes your point.
Hundreds of thousands of children who had not received proper medical care now have up-to-date immunizations and other medical care.
* School attendance, by some estimates, is up 80% from levels before the war. Among those being educated are young girls who previously may not have received proper education.
* Despite much publicity early in the war that power plants had been bombed or sabotaged, what hasn’t received wide publicity is that today Iraq now has more electrical power than it did before the war.
*Hundreds of thousands of people have telephones for the first time ever.
* Textbooks that don't mention Saddam are in the schools for the first time in 30 years.
Finally, by the way, Saddam Hussein himself, one of the most murderous despots of the 20th century, is in prison, awaiting trial for genocide and crimes against humanity.
All can be found at
http://www.cpa-iraq.org/