Good stuff indeed.

But where are the WMD's?

He is a 'War President' and this was somehow supposed to help with the 'War
Against Terror' ( TWAT ). Remember? And it's costing a lot of money, or did
you forget this part?

This isn't the 'War Against Tyranny', which is the current spin most of the
NeoCons are trying to put forth. America didn't give a rat's ***** about
Iraqi's under Saddam during Desert Storm when they could've easily
slaughtered his Republican Guard in the open desert as they retreated back
to Baghdad. Instead they sat on their hands while Saddam took his revenge
against the Kurds.

I'm not saying your points should be disregarded. But they have absolutely
nothing to do with the justification for the invasion of Iraq.

-ex


"TonyZ2001" <tonyz2001@aol.com> wrote in message
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This is good news that "hasn't been fit" to print or report on TV. It is

much

easier to point out the errors a man makes when he makes the tough

decisions,

rarely is the positive as aggressively pursued.

Since President Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1, 2003:

a) the first battalion of the new Iraqi Army has graduated and is on

active

duty.

b) over 60,000 Iraqis now provide security to their fellow citizens

c) nearly all of Iraq's 400 courts are functioning.

d) the Iraqi judiciary is fully independent.

e) on Monday 6 Oct, power generation hit 4,518 megawatts = exceeding the

prewar

average.

f) all 22 universities and 43 technical institutes and colleges are open,

as

are nearly all primary and secondary schools.

g) by 1 Oct, Coalition forces had rehab'ed over 1,500 schools - 500 more

than

scheduled.

h) teachers earn 12 to 25 times their former salaries.

i) all 240 hospitals and more than 1,200 clinics are open.

j) doctors salaries are at least 8x what they were under Saddam.

k) pharmaceutical distribution has gone from essentially nothing to
700 tons in May, to a current total of 12,000 tons.

l) the Coalition has helped administer over 22 million vaccinations to

Iraq 's

children.

m) a Coalition program has cleared over 14,000 km of Iraq's 27,000 km of
weed-choked canals which now irrigate tens of thousands of farms. This

project

has created jobs for more than 100,000 Iraqi men and women.

n) we have restored over 75% of prewar telephone services and over
67% of the potable water production.

o) there are 4,900 full-service telephone connections. We expect
50,000 by year-end.

p) the wheels of commerce are turning. From bicycles to satellite dishes

to

cars and trucks, businesses are coming to life in all major cities and

towns.

q) 95% of all prewar bank customers have service and first-time customers

are

opening accounts daily.

r) Iraqi banks are making loans to finance businesses.

s) the central bank is fully independent.

t) Iraq has one of the world's most growth-oriented investment and banking
laws.

u) Iraq has a single, unified currency for the 1st X in 15 years.

v) satellite TV dishes are legal.

w) foreign journalists aren't on 10-day visas paying mandatory and

extortionate

fees to the Ministry of Information for "minders" and other government

spies.

x) there is no Ministry of Information.

y) there are more than 170 newspapers.

z) you can buy satellite dishes on what seems like every street corner.

aa) foreign journalists (and everyone else) are free to come and go.

ab) a nation that had not one single element-legislative, judicial or
executive-of a representative government, now does.

ac) in Baghdad alone, residents have selected 88 advisory councils.

Baghdad 's

first democratic transfer of power in 35 years happened when the city

council

elected its new chairman.

ad) today in Iraq , chambers of commerce, business, school and

professional

organizations are electing their leaders all over the country.

ae) 25 ministers, selected by the most representative governing body in

Iraq 's

history, run the day-to-day business of government.

af) the Iraqi government regularly participates in international events.

Since

July, the Iraqi government has been represented in over two dozen

international

meetings, including those of the UN General Assembly, the Arab League, the
World Bank and IMF and, today, the Islamic Conference Summit. The Ministry

of

Foreign Affairs today announced that it is reopening over
30 Iraqi embassies around the world.

ag) Shia religious festivals that were all but banned, aren't.

ah) for the first time in 35 years, in Karbala thousands of Shiites

celebrate

the pilgrimage of the 12th Imam.

ai) the Coalition has completed over 13,000 reconstruction projects, large

and

small, as part of a strategic plan for the reconstruction of Iraq .

aj) Uday and Qusay are dead ; and no longer feeding innocent Iraqis to the

zoo

lions, raping the young daughters of local leaders to force cooperation,
torturing Iraq's soccer players for losing games, or murdering critics.

ak) children aren't imprisoned or murdered when their parents disagree

with the

government.

al) political opponents aren't imprisoned, tortured, executed, maimed, or

are

forced to watch their families die for disagreeing with Saddam.

am) millions of longsuffering Iraqis no longer live in perpetual terror.

an) Saudis will hold municipal elections.

ao) Qatar is reforming education to give more choices to parents.

ap) Jordan is accelerating market economic reforms.

aq) the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded for the first time to an Iranian - a
Muslim woman who speaks out with courage for human rights, for democracy

and

for peace.

ar) Saddam is gone.

as) Iraq is free.

at) President Bush has not faltered or failed.

au) Yet, little or none of this information has been published by the

Press

corps that prides itself on bringing you all the news that's important.

It took the US over 4 months to clear away the twin tower debris, and
substantially longer to even decide what to put up in it's place, let

alone

attempt to start building something else...

Now, take into account that almost every Democrat leader in the House and
Senate has fought President Bush on every aspect of his handling of this
country's war and the post-war reconstruction, and that they continue to

claim

on a daily basis on national TV that this conflict has been a failure.

Taking everything into consideration, even the unfortunate loss of our

brothers

and sisters in this conflict, do you think anyone else in the world could

have

accomplished as much as the United States and the Bush administration in

so

short a period of time...?

These are things worth writing about. Get the word out.

Above all, be proud that you are a part of this historical precedent.

God bless you all. Semper Fidelis, LtCol Scot S. SeitzGreenville,SC

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Good stuff indeed.

But where are the WMD's?

He is a 'War President' and this was somehow supposed to help with the

Against Terror' ( TWAT ). Remember? And it's costing a lot of money, or

you forget this part?

This isn't the 'War Against Tyranny', which is the current spin most of

NeoCons are trying to put forth. America didn't give a rat's ***** about
Iraqi's under Saddam during Desert Storm when they could've easily
slaughtered his Republican Guard in the open desert as they retreated back
to Baghdad. Instead they sat on their hands while Saddam took his revenge
against the Kurds.

I'm not saying your points should be disregarded. But they have absolutely
nothing to do with the justification for the invasion of Iraq.

-ex


"TonyZ2001" <tonyz2001@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20040605081009.16492.00000490@mb-m10.aol.com...

This is good news that "hasn't been fit" to print or report on TV. It is

much

easier to point out the errors a man makes when he makes the tough

decisions,

rarely is the positive as aggressively pursued.

Since President Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1, 2003:

a) the first battalion of the new Iraqi Army has graduated and is on

active

duty.

b) over 60,000 Iraqis now provide security to their fellow citizens

c) nearly all of Iraq's 400 courts are functioning.

d) the Iraqi judiciary is fully independent.

e) on Monday 6 Oct, power generation hit 4,518 megawatts = exceeding the

prewar

average.

f) all 22 universities and 43 technical institutes and colleges are

as

are nearly all primary and secondary schools.

g) by 1 Oct, Coalition forces had rehab'ed over 1,500 schools - 500 more

than

scheduled.

h) teachers earn 12 to 25 times their former salaries.

i) all 240 hospitals and more than 1,200 clinics are open.

j) doctors salaries are at least 8x what they were under Saddam.

k) pharmaceutical distribution has gone from essentially nothing to
700 tons in May, to a current total of 12,000 tons.

l) the Coalition has helped administer over 22 million vaccinations to

Iraq 's

children.

m) a Coalition program has cleared over 14,000 km of Iraq's 27,000 km of
weed-choked canals which now irrigate tens of thousands of farms. This

project

has created jobs for more than 100,000 Iraqi men and women.

n) we have restored over 75% of prewar telephone services and over
67% of the potable water production.

o) there are 4,900 full-service telephone connections. We expect
50,000 by year-end.

p) the wheels of commerce are turning. From bicycles to satellite dishes

to

cars and trucks, businesses are coming to life in all major cities and

towns.

q) 95% of all prewar bank customers have service and first-time

are

opening accounts daily.

r) Iraqi banks are making loans to finance businesses.

s) the central bank is fully independent.

t) Iraq has one of the world's most growth-oriented investment and

laws.

u) Iraq has a single, unified currency for the 1st X in 15 years.

v) satellite TV dishes are legal.

w) foreign journalists aren't on 10-day visas paying mandatory and

extortionate

fees to the Ministry of Information for "minders" and other government

spies.

x) there is no Ministry of Information.

y) there are more than 170 newspapers.

z) you can buy satellite dishes on what seems like every street corner.

aa) foreign journalists (and everyone else) are free to come and go.

ab) a nation that had not one single element-legislative, judicial or
executive-of a representative government, now does.

ac) in Baghdad alone, residents have selected 88 advisory councils.

Baghdad 's

first democratic transfer of power in 35 years happened when the city

council

elected its new chairman.

ad) today in Iraq , chambers of commerce, business, school and

professional

organizations are electing their leaders all over the country.

ae) 25 ministers, selected by the most representative governing body in

Iraq 's

history, run the day-to-day business of government.

af) the Iraqi government regularly participates in international events.

Since

July, the Iraqi government has been represented in over two dozen

international

meetings, including those of the UN General Assembly, the Arab League,

World Bank and IMF and, today, the Islamic Conference Summit. The

of

Foreign Affairs today announced that it is reopening over
30 Iraqi embassies around the world.

ag) Shia religious festivals that were all but banned, aren't.

ah) for the first time in 35 years, in Karbala thousands of Shiites

celebrate

the pilgrimage of the 12th Imam.

ai) the Coalition has completed over 13,000 reconstruction projects,

and

small, as part of a strategic plan for the reconstruction of Iraq .

aj) Uday and Qusay are dead ; and no longer feeding innocent Iraqis to

zoo

lions, raping the young daughters of local leaders to force cooperation,
torturing Iraq's soccer players for losing games, or murdering critics.

ak) children aren't imprisoned or murdered when their parents disagree

with the

government.

al) political opponents aren't imprisoned, tortured, executed, maimed,

are

forced to watch their families die for disagreeing with Saddam.

am) millions of longsuffering Iraqis no longer live in perpetual terror.

an) Saudis will hold municipal elections.

ao) Qatar is reforming education to give more choices to parents.

ap) Jordan is accelerating market economic reforms.

aq) the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded for the first time to an Iranian -

Muslim woman who speaks out with courage for human rights, for democracy

and

for peace.

ar) Saddam is gone.

as) Iraq is free.

at) President Bush has not faltered or failed.

au) Yet, little or none of this information has been published by the

Press

corps that prides itself on bringing you all the news that's important.

It took the US over 4 months to clear away the twin tower debris, and
substantially longer to even decide what to put up in it's place, let

alone

attempt to start building something else...

Now, take into account that almost every Democrat leader in the House

Senate has fought President Bush on every aspect of his handling of this
country's war and the post-war reconstruction, and that they continue to

claim

on a daily basis on national TV that this conflict has been a failure.

Taking everything into consideration, even the unfortunate loss of our

brothers

and sisters in this conflict, do you think anyone else in the world

have

accomplished as much as the United States and the Bush administration in

so

short a period of time...?

These are things worth writing about. Get the word out.

Above all, be proud that you are a part of this historical precedent.

God bless you all. Semper Fidelis, LtCol Scot S. SeitzGreenville,SC

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