How Iraqis really feel about our troops. May Shock You!!

[chadtm80]

Sadly, this is something you'd never see in the papers. Only the Iraqis that don't like us deserve to make the front page.




Its funny how many people in this country are lemmings. Its not too difficult to figure out that a group of people who have been mistreated for so long would embrace their liberators. Somehow the media likes to focus on the bad...hmmm, imagine that. Its unfortunate that our media doesn't show more of the good things happening in Iraq.

The Iraqis that like us = good for Bush.

The Iraqis that don't like us = bad for Bush.

Not hard to figure out which one the lib*** media will cover.

[pawlee]

true that...

[Lindaloo]

I NEVER saw this image on the lib*** media either.

[Rainband]

Excellent!!!!! and TRUE Chad. Not hard too figure out

[Stephanie]

Was that liberal?

Good pictures.

[chadtm80]

LOL.. uhh..

[azskyman]

In 1970 I was featured in a Stars and Stripes (the military newspaper) newspaper distributed throughout Vietnam. The headline read, "Signalman Teaches To Keep In Practice." There I was, sitting before a class of teachers and principals where I spent my time assisting them with their written and oral understanding of the American language.

Interesting that the regular newspaper of the Armed Forces in Vietnam saw fit to highlight such material (I was but one among many who took the opportunity before them and built relationships with a people, and a country). Mine was no big accomplishment, yet it was recognized in a meaningful way by the military media.

Strange how few photos like these, stories like these, make the mainstream when I am absolutely certain that many wonderful things are being done unselfishly by those who are volunteering their off time to further the cause of what America REALLY stands for.

Thanks for sharing the pictures. There is SO much more to the story that doesn't get told!

[Guest]

Thanks Chad and Lindaloo for showing those pictures. To see the good makes me feel a little better about the whole Iraq situation. Steve, thanks for sharing your story. I'm quite impressed that the media picked up the story. It is a great one.

I am so sick of the media presenting information in whatever light they choose to. What ever happened to the telling the whole truth? This is one of the reasons I don't watch much television/news. I want reality, not their version of it.
...Jennifer...

[Lindaloo]

More than 400,000 children receive immunizations-Truth! But his figure is low!
According to a UNICEF report at the end of 2003, more than 3 1/2 million children had been immunized.

School Attendance is up 80%-Truth!
Again, according to an April, 2004 report from UNICEF, school attendance in Iraq increased by 60 percent shortly after the war to more than 95 percent during the recent national exam week.

More than 1,500 schools renovated-Truth!
UNICEF says that as of April, 2004, more than 2,500 schools have been renovated with the goal of 4,000 being completed by the end of the year, but 10,000 more need repair.

The Port of Uhm Qasar [sic] renovated so grain can be offloaded faster-Truth!
In a November, 2003 interview on National Public Radio, Andrew Natsios of the U.S. Agency for International Development said that the port at Umm Qasar, Iraq's largest, is modern and functioning for the first time in 20 years.
All of the hospitals operating-Truth!
Because of disrepair and looting, it took a lot of work to get hospitals back up to speed but according to James Haverman, the Coalition Provisional Authority Senior Advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Health, all 240 hospitals in Iraq as well as 2400 primary health care clinics were operating as of December, 2003.
Textbooks that don't mention Saddam are in the schools for the first time in 30 years-Truth!
According to published reports, a team of U.S. appointed Iraqi educators combed through more than 500 Iraqi textbooks and removed every mention of Saddam Hussein and the Baath
party including pictures.
The texts will probably be revised by the Iraqis at some point in the future, but the pre-war texts were dominated with Saddam Hussein.