Save Iraq

[Alborz Taha]

Thousands of orphaned children,
Thousands of unattended families,
Streets covered with corpses of innocent civilians,
4-5 million Iraqis displaced inside Iraq and refugees in neighboring countries,
Full devastation of Iraq's social and economical infrastructure
………
Please join our campaign to save Iraq at this very crucial moment.
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[Stoner]

Save Iraq

We are making great leaps and bounds putting a country back together after decades of war, torture and murder. Here's some great acheivements we've accomplished.

- 98% of Iraqi children are now vaccinated against polio.

- 4,500 schools built and stocked with over 8 million textbooks.

- Iraqi special forces have 19,000 newly-trained soldiers.

- 18,000 new Iraqi border agents.

- 33,000 new businesses.

- Under Sadam virtually no one owned a cell phone. Now they have over 8 million subscribers.

- 25% of the Iraqi Parliment is made up of women...the highest percentage in the Arab world.

- Over 150 radio and television stations discuss politics openly and freely.

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[AnnEsthesia]

Source please.

[exigent]

Save Iraq

We are making great leaps and bounds putting a country back together after decades of war, torture and murder. Here's some great acheivements we've accomplished.

- 98% of Iraqi children are now vaccinated against polio.

- 4,500 schools built and stocked with over 8 million textbooks.

- Iraqi special forces have 19,000 newly-trained soldiers.

- 18,000 new Iraqi border agents.

- 33,000 new businesses.

- Under Sadam virtually no one owned a cell phone. Now they have over 8 million subscribers.

- 25% of the Iraqi Parliment is made up of women...the highest percentage in the Arab world.

- Over 150 radio and television stations discuss politics openly and freely.

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Fantastic, pat yourself on the back, even if half of those arent lies. But who cares? So what? My number one concern always has been and always will be my safety.

Diverting our money and resources outside our contry takes away from those available to provide my protection. who cares who has cell phones? How does that right any wrongs?

How many working hospitals are there in Iraq? How many doctors are in Iraq now compared to 7 years ago?

What is the mortality rate in Iraq now compared to 7 years ago?

You care about who has cell phones? Our presence in Iraq has raised the mortality rate in Iraq. Our presense in Iraq has caused doctors to flee the country and what few hospitals are left are overrun with patients injured by violence...

...but at least they can use their cell phones to call an ambulance...oh wait, no ambulances either.

[Questerr]

- 98% of Iraqi children are now vaccinated against polio.

I'd like to see the pre-war percentage.

- 4,500 schools built and stocked with over 8 million textbooks.

And a declining attendance rate as parents are too scared to send their kids down bomb-laden roads to school. Also, I remember an article that said the textbooks are supplied by an Arab company and have a distinctly anti-US and anti-Israeli theme.

- Iraqi special forces have 19,000 newly-trained soldiers.

Which even our own officers say that upwards of 50% will dissert and most units sit around 1/3 strength due to the inability to keep troops with their units.

- 18,000 new Iraqi border agents.

For the Shiite dominated Ministry of the Interior. I'm sure they'll stop Iranians with no problem.

- 33,000 new businesses.

I do remember reading an article about growing jobs in Iraq...jobs like ferrymen, midwives, horse drawn cart drivers, and the like. Jobs that haven't been used in mass in the Western world for a century. Jobs that weren't needed in pre-Saddam Iraq. Not to mention, the vast majority of Iraqi refugees are from the Middle class.

- Under Sadam virtually no one owned a cell phone. Now they have over 8 million subscribers.

And providing perfect resources for Insurgents. Most IED's are now linked to easily disposable cell phones.

- 25% of the Iraqi Parliment is made up of women...the highest percentage in the Arab world.

Who, since Saddam was ousted, now have to wear headscarves or else get death threats, if they aren't getting death threats already for being women "in a man's profession".

- Over 150 radio and television stations discuss politics openly and freely.

Most of them are Sectarian propaganda pieces and are owned by the militia supporting politicians.

[jafar00]

Stoner, you are forgetting of course that Iraq was one of the most prosperous nations in the Arab world before the US started 2 wars and instigated crippling sanctions against them.

Sure it's good that a few things are being rebuilt, but it's too little, too late. It's like putting a band-aid on a gaping flesh would spurting blood from a severed artery and telling the victim to take an aspirin and call you in the morning.

Edit: I just visited the petition site and realised it's just propaganda from the terrorist Iyad Allawi. Don't sign it.