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DougieZero Donating Member (372 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 12:59 AM
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Iraqi Schools (now repeat that 1 million times)
This is my own personal pet peeve... Anyone else besides me catch that phrase used almost every time when a pro-war person explains the war? It's usually used like this:

"The media reports all the bad stuff, but what about the schools we've built"

Listen, Iraq did have SOME schools before we invaded right? Are all the US servicemen part time carpenters? The phrase "Iraqi schools" is used so much to explain progress, you would think we have built like 3 million of them over the last few years.

I'm sure we have probably refurbished a school somewhere in Iraq, we might have built one or two in a symbolic gesture of a starting over for the Iraqi people.... but seriously... how many schools can we build?!?!?
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 01:04 AM
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1. We building future madrasses.
Where the kids will learn how evil we are.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 01:07 AM
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2. My favorite is "You don't hear about how we restored their...
water system"
And just how did it "get broken", you idiot?
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 01:08 AM
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3. The school deal was debunked by the msm years ago.
The most they did was fix a few broken windows and paint some walls.
The contractors fraudulently charged millions for it.
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 01:20 AM
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4. I still get that line from a number of my soldier students a lot.
Edited on Sat Aug-27-05 01:23 AM by Hissyspit
I just figure they are desperate to find something positive in the sacrifices they have made and the militaristic manipulation they have been caught up in, so I don't say anything. Funny it is almost word-for-word how you have written it there: "The media keeps reporting on all the bad stuff, but they don't report on all the schools we've built." I figure they hear it from the Fox commentators.

Imagine! The media reporting on all this bad stuff! My response to that is always, well, for about a year or so there, they weren't reporting any of the bad stuff. Nor did they go in-depth in analysis about the potential for and likeliness of the bad stuff before the war started, so I guess it is all balancing out, hunh?
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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 01:29 AM
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5. What they're not telling us
is that everyone's afraid to USE the schools...they might get blown up.

If we've built so many damn schools, why haven't we seen pictures of them?

In fact, why haven't we seen ANY pictures of all these alleged positive things we're doing? It's not as though they don't have any damn digital cameras over there. There are probably hundreds of amateur photographers who AREN'T working at Abu Graib. Where are THEIR pics?

Oh--wait. They can't afford to take pictures, can they? That would require them to take their attention away from the possible suicide bombers and snipers surrounding them anywhere but in the heart of the Green Zone.

Consider me an Missourian at this point...SHOW ME.

If they want to contradict all the bad news stories out there, how 'bout they post evidence that it's not all bad.

If they can't, for whatever reason, we should all be asking 'why?'
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