Did You Know?

[Irish]

DID YOU KNOW !!

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 IraqâEUR(tm)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 IraqâEUR(tm)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 DIDNâEUR(tm)T KNOW!

WHY DIDNâEUR(tm)T WE KNOW?*OUR MEDIA WOULDNâEUR(tm)T TELL US!
:hair:

[Irish]

Instead of shouting these accomplishments from every rooftop, they would
rather show
photoâEUR(tm)s 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
worldâEUR(tm)s perception of the United States and our soldiers.

I AM ASHAMED OF MY FELLOW AMERICANS WHO WOULD RATHER SEE
TERRORISM SUCCEEDTHAN A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT.

This is verifiable on the Department of Defense website. Pass it on!
Best Regards,

[Cjack]

Do you have a link where you got this info from?

[Irish]

I got it from an e-mail!I apoligise for any political reference.I cut & pasted it in two parts,to avoid anything political!Evidently,I failed.I must be human!I am,very,patriotic.My wife & I are registered independants.I could never under-
stand how anyone could put a party first.Sorry! Irish
P.S.It is on the Dept of Defense website.I don't know what the WWW is.

[Sharni]

Rebuilding Iraq (http://www.defendamerica.mil/iraq/rebuilding.html)

Some of what Irish has posted is here....i believe someone may have gone through the entire Department of Defence website and collected the above forwarded email

[Irish]

Sharni---Thanks!The website,is posted right there.Usually you just hear the BAD news,because it is more "newsworthy"! Irish