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I believe Bush41 stopped chlorine shipments to Iraq causing over 500,000 (based on increased death rate) children's deaths. So the saying that the 30 million population now has Over 4.5 million people who have have clean drinking water for the first time ever in Iraq is a ... shall we say ... not the whole story.
Since we ran Iraq for the past year, I guess we can take credit for the usual yearly shots - although 400,000 kids getting a shot in a population of 30 million seems low.
Give the number of schools we destroyed, having 1500 schools back in action with the damage we caused repaired is a good thing - and indeed removing the excess weapons in Iraq that were stored in various locations was a good thing - too bad we are re-supplying weapons to 200,000 police who every few months "lose" them via selling them or via the 40% who quit and take those weapons - it seems likely there are more weapons in Iraq than ever - but they are new and are made in America - or at least by American corporations who outsources the work to China and India.
Again it is true that the port of Uhm Qasar was renovated - mainly to get water and food in after we had destroyed the capacity of the harbor to handle the need - a need we cause by taking out a bit of the water infrastructure.
A partial truth is that the School attendance is up 80% from levels before the war - of course that reflects school closings just before the war as folks waited for the bombs.
Another partial truth is the "first 2 billion barrel export of oil in August" which could not be sustained at that time and indeed a large part of the pull was put back in the ground - and we imported oil and oil products into Iraq.
And yet another partial truth is the that the country now receives 2 times the electrical power it did before the war - seems we fixed war damage and put in new electrical in areas outside Sunni/Baghdad areas - but since even in Sunni/Baghdad areas the electrical is back to the inadequate levels they had pre-war - this one is more truth than lie.
Now 100% of the hospitals are open and fully staffed compared to 35% before the war is a flat out lie on many levels.
And another lie is the Elections are taking place in every major city and city councils are in place - but there have been some elections and some councils set up.
To say "Sewer and water lines are installed in every major city" is to both claim credit for work done before we got there, and to raise the question of "what is a major city".
The next part is actually an understatement - the truth is that 400,000 former police have been replaced by 200,000 - not just 160,000 - as implied by "Over 60,000 police are patrolling the streets...Over 100,000 Iraqi civil defense police are securing the country". Sadly our experience has been that when we confront bad folks, 10% JOIN the bad folks and fight us!!!!! - and of course there is that 40% drop out rate.
I do not know that we really graduated in our 30 day course not open to Sunni's in the former government 80,000 soldiers -"Over 80,000 Iraqi soldiers are patrolling the streets side by side with US soldiers" seems high, and the patrolling side by side we know is a lie.
But why doubt that cell phone sales may have reached 400,000 - although the "for the first time" is silly - and we have put in no new land lines.
Thank God we have taught the Iraqi folks to do hand washing - what can I say!
And the 25 folks that we more or less brought in and paid for did indeed sign an interim constitution - and it actually is a good compromise document - but I wonder if it will prevent a second Iran in Iraq - run by the US hating mullahs?
A lie - amusing because the writer confuses Afghanistan with Iraq - is of course the "Girls are allowed to attend school for the first time ever in Iraq" - but the statement makes one cry for the Afghanistan girls who have begun to commit suicide as womens rights are ended and the beatings and the ending of school for women again becomes the norm.
And Finally - A TOTAL TRUTH - -Text books that don't mention Saddam are in the schools for the first time in 30 years - worth using war and death and destruction instead of UN inspections - inspections that appear to have removed all WMD before the war - and economic sanctions - which again had Saddam in a vice - to achieve change.
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