I received this from a friend. I am not including the name of the sender, as I don't have his permission to do so.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

This is a letter from a medic in the Iowa Army National

Guard, serving in Iraq:


As I head off to Baghdad for the final weeks of my stay in Iraq, I

wanted to say thanks to all of you who did not believe the media. They

have done a very poor job of covering everything that has happened. I am

sorry that I have not been able to visit all of you during my two week

leave back home. And just so you can rest at night knowing something is

happening in Iraq that is noteworthy, I thought I would pass this on to

you. This is the list of things that has happened in Iraq recently:

(Please share it with your friends and compare it to the version that

your paper is producing.)




* Over 400,000 kids have up-to-date immunizations.


* School attendance is up 80% from levels before the war.


* Over 1,500 schools have been renovated and rid of the

weapons stored there so education can occur.


* The port of Uhm Qasar was renovated so grain can be

off-loaded from ships faster.


* The country had its first 2 billion barrel export of oil

in August.


* Over 4.5 million people have clean drinking water for the

first time ever in Iraq.


* The country now receives 2 times the electrical power it

did before the war.


* 100% of the hospitals are open and fully staffed, compared

to 35% before the war.


* Elections are taking place in every major city, and city

councils are in place.


* Sewer and water lines are installed in every major city.


* Over 60,000 police are patrolling the streets.


* Over 100,000 Iraqi civil defense police are securing the

country.


* Over 80,000 Iraqi soldiers are patrolling the streets side

by side with US soldiers.


* Over 400,000 people have telephones for the first time

ever


* Students are taught field sanitation and hand washing

techniques to prevent the spread of germs.


* An interim constitution has been signed.


* Girls are allowed to attend school.


* Textbooks that don't mention Saddam are in the schools for

the first time in 30 years.




Don't believe for one second that these people do not want us there. I

have met many, many people from Iraq that want us there, and in a bad

way. They say they will never see the freedoms we talk about but they

hope their children will. We are doing a good job in Iraq and I

challenge anyone, anywhere to dispute me on these facts. So if you

happen to run into John Kerry, be sure to give him my email address and

send him to Denison, Iowa. This soldier will set him straight. If you

are like me and very disgusted with how this period of rebuilding has

been portrayed, email this to a friend and let them know there are good

things happening.

...Hmmmm couldn't possibly be fake could it??? Or do you have the same friends.....

__________________
The last time this country mixed politics with religion, people got burned at the stake.

http://www.politicalforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=1002

Yup, REMARKABLY similar....

__________________
The last time this country mixed politics with religion, people got burned at the stake.

__________________
"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)

But makes me laugh.....

A journalist had done a story on gender roles in Iraq several years before the Gulf War, and she noted then that women customarily walked about 10 feet behind their husbands.

She returned to Iraq recently and observed that the men now walked several yards behind their wives.

She approached one of the women for an explanation. "This is marvelous," said the journalist. "What enabled women here to achieve this reversal of roles?"

To which the Kuwaiti woman replied: "Land mines."

__________________
"They misunderestimated me."
--George W Bush

What kind of insane idea is it to ignore Saddam in history books? That is like saying we should forget Hitler existed.

Another flaw in this hoax.

__________________
"They misunderestimated me."
--George W Bush

I know I keep posting with more thoughts on this... but I really can't get over how people could think this is real.

Don't you think CNN (pro war) would be blasting all this "factual" information every day if it were true? Don't you think GWB would be reading them out in his speeches?

If anyone thought for a second even one of these statistics was true, they need to see a doctor.

Fact: GWB authorized the fleeing from the US of rich Saudi's who were related to Bin Laden by planes, in otherwise no fly zones, soon after 9/11.

Fact: There were warnings of planes flying into the WTC before it happened.

Fact: As soon as 9/11 happened Blair was asked by Bush if they could use this an excuse to go into Iraq.


Opinion (not mine): Some people in the Bush administration let 9/11 happen, in order to go into Iraq for material gain.

__________________
"They misunderestimated me."
--George W Bush

__________________
"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)

While the effects of U.S. policy on daily life go largely unseen in the U.S. media, anyone walking the streets of Baghdad cannot miss them. Children sleep on the sidewalks. Buildings that once housed many of the city's four million residents, or the infrastructure that makes life in a modern city possible, remain burned-out ruins a year after the occupation started. Rubble fills the broad boulevards that were once the pride of a wealthy country, while the air turns gritty and brown as thousands of vehicles kick up the resulting dust. Sewage still pours into the Tigris River, and those who must depend on it for drinking or cooking continue to get sick.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarti...15&ItemID=5349

__________________
"They misunderestimated me."
--George W Bush

..letters being written by soldiers, UNDER ORDERS, to mail back to the States "accentuating" ( ) the positive...

There may well be some positive things going on in Iraq, and I sincerely hope there are, but the over-riding reality is that with today's corporate media "If it bleeds, it leads" is the mantra....No-one wants to hear about some youths helping an old lady crossing the street...they want to hear about some youths beating the snot out of the old lady, taking her Giro check and going down the pub to get pissed...

Overall a very sad commentary...

__________________
The last time this country mixed politics with religion, people got burned at the stake.