Email correspondence provided by Bill Sharpsteen VP
- OTOW
This is the list of things that has happened in Iraq
recently: (Please share it with your friends and compare it to the version that
your paper is producing):
Over 4.5 million people have clean drinking water for the first time ever
in Iraq.
Over 400,000 kids have up to date immunizations.
Over 1500 schools have been renovated and ridded of the weapons that were
stored there so education can occur.
The port of Uhm Qasar was renovated so grain can be off loaded from ships
faster.
School attendance is up 80% from levels before the war.
The country had its first 2 billion barrel export of oil in August.
The country now receives 2 times the electrical power it did before the
war.
100% of the hospitals are open and fully staffed compared to 35% before
the war.
Elections are taking place in every major city and city councils are in
place.
Sewer and water lines are installed in every major city.
Over 60,000 police are patrolling the streets.
Over 100,000 Iraqi civil defense police are securing the country.
Over 80,000 Iraqi soldiers are patrolling the streets side by side with
US soldiers.
Over 400,000 people have telephones for the first time ever.
Students are taught field sanitation and hand washing techniques to
prevent the spread of germs.
An interim constitution has been signed.
Girls are allowed to attend school for the first time ever in Iraq.
Textbooks that don't mention Saddam are in the schools for the first
time in 30 years. Ed note:
Impressive set of accomplishments under our great leader President George W.
Bush
Don't believe for one second that these people do not want us there.
I have met many, many people from Iraq that want us there and in a bad way.
They say they will never see the freedoms we talk about but they hope their
children will. We are doing a good job in Iraq and I challenge anyone, anywhere
to dispute me on these facts. So if you happen to run into John Kerry, be sure
to give him my email address and send him to Denison, Iowa. This soldier will
set him straight. If you are like me and very disgusted with how this period of
rebuilding has been portrayed, email this to a friend and let them know there
are good things happening.
Ray Reynolds, SFC
Iowa Army National Guard
234th Signal Battalion
