Letter from Medic Serving in Iraq

[pimpshost]

This is a letter from Ray Reynolds, a medic in the Iowa Army
National Guard, serving in Iraq:

As I head off to Baghdad for the final weeks of my stay in
Iraq, I wanted to say thanks to all of you who did not believe the
media. They have done a very poor job of covering everything that
has happened. I am sorry that I have not been able to visit all
of you during my two week leave back home. And just so you can
rest at night knowing something is happening in Iraq that is
noteworthy, I thought I would pass this on to you. 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 400,000 kids ha! ve up-to-date immunizations.
* School attendance is up 80% from levels/* before the war*/.
* Over 1,500 schools have been renovated and rid of the weapons
stored there so education can occur.
* The port of Uhm Qasar was renovated so grain can be off-loaded
from ships faster.
* The country had its first 2 billion barrel export of oil in August.
* Over 4.5 million people have clean drinking water/* for the
first time ever*/ in Iraq.
* 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 patro! lling 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.
* Textbooks that don't mention Saddam are in the schools for the
first time in 30 years.

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

[Internet God]

Sorry.

I don't buy it...at all.

[Internet God]

Textbooks that don't mention Saddam are in the schools for the
first time in 30 years

Smart...you telling me they are trying to change history?


How did this little National Guard medic have access to these stats that even the news stations don't have access to?

He must have been some medic in the National Guard!




I smell BULLSHIT.

[Centurion]

Originally posted by Internet God
Sorry.

I don't buy it...at all.

No shit. For fucking lowly medic, he sure knows a LOT of supposed statistics that I doubt even most people in Congress don't know.

"Don't believe the media"..shit..the only time the media ain't the right wing is when they HAVE to report the truth! And the truth is that a lot of people are dying in Iraq on a daily basis and there is NO plan in place to get our soldiers out of there.

That IS the truth that the media can't even screw up!

[Internet God]

http://www.madkane.com/wwwboard/messages/688.html

This page BUSTS up that bogus email.

This is interesting.. Do a search on any un-common combination of words in that e-mail, and you get about a billion sites repeating it, lamenting the liberal media and it's lack of accurate coverage. There are some people who have actually taken the time to look through this information and surprise surprise, it's not entirely accurate. When I read it, my suspicions were raised when it said that "* The country had its first 2 billion barrel export of oil in August."

That's quite a feat, considering that it was BIG NEWS when OPEC decided to cut product by a mere 1 million barrels a day. With a flush of 2 BILLION barrels in a month into the world market, an announcement by OPEC cutting daily production by 1 million, or about 30 million a month, would hardly be news.

The above is just a SMALL example...


Keep reading...

http://www.madkane.com/wwwboard/messages/688.html

[Internet God]

pimpleshithost - choke on a dick....what do you have to say now that your little right-wing bullshit is busted wide open?!

[theking]

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This is interesting.. Do a search on any un-common combination of words in that e-mail, and you get about a billion sites repeating it, lamenting the liberal media and it's lack of accurate coverage. There are some people who have actually taken the time to look through this information and surprise surprise, it's not entirely accurate. When I read it, my suspicions were raised when it said that "* The country had its first 2 billion barrel export of oil in August."

That's quite a feat, considering that it was BIG NEWS when OPEC decided to cut product by a mere 1 million barrels a day. With a flush of 2 BILLION barrels in a month into the world market, an announcement by OPEC cutting daily production by 1 million, or about 30 million a month, would hardly be news.

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A week or so ago when it was reported that attacks had been made/attempted in the port where oil is exported from Iraq...it was also reported that Iraq has been exporting about 1 1/2 million barrels per month...and the question was posed if they attacks had done any damage that would reduce the amount exported.

[Internet God]

Originally posted by theking
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This is interesting.. Do a search on any un-common combination of words in that e-mail, and you get about a billion sites repeating it, lamenting the liberal media and it's lack of accurate coverage. There are some people who have actually taken the time to look through this information and surprise surprise, it's not entirely accurate. When I read it, my suspicions were raised when it said that "* The country had its first 2 billion barrel export of oil in August."

That's quite a feat, considering that it was BIG NEWS when OPEC decided to cut product by a mere 1 million barrels a day. With a flush of 2 BILLION barrels in a month into the world market, an announcement by OPEC cutting daily production by 1 million, or about 30 million a month, would hardly be news.

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A week or so ago when it was reported that attacks had been made/attempted in the port where oil is exported from Iraq...it was also reported that Iraq has been exporting about 1 1/2 million barrels per month...and the question was posed if they attacks had done any damage that would reduce the amount exported.

Keep reading the fucking page you fucking wacked out brainwashed cum cup.

http://www.madkane.com/wwwboard/messages/688.html

[SleazyDream]

he wrote that letter just before he died didn't he?

[pimpshost]

I dont give a fuck. Just posting a letter I got. Don't hold me responsible for what people say. Believe it or not....just thought I would post it.

[theking]

Originally posted by Internet God
Keep reading the fucking page you fucking wacked out brainwashed cum cup.

http://www.madkane.com/wwwboard/messages/688.html

I have read it...why would I want to keep reading it?

[Centurion]

Originally posted by SleazyDream
he wrote that letter just before he died didn't he?

[Internet God]

Originally posted by SleazyDream
he wrote that letter just before he died didn't he?

[Centurion]

Originally posted by pimpshost
I dont give a fuck. Just posting a letter I got. Don't hold me responsible for what people say. Believe it or not....just thought I would post it.

Except when you post such an idiotic post like that one, you'll soon be keeping a lot of company with theking!

[pimpshost]

If it was up to me, I'd just drop a bomb and start from Scratch.

[Centurion]

Originally posted by Internet God

Damn..you must be my dopplegangler!!

[theking]

Originally posted by Centurion
Damn..you must be my dopplegangler!!

Word of the day program...may just help you improve your level of comprehension...but I doubt it...since it is spelled doppelganger.

[newsdude]

Too long to read.

[rickholio]

Hmmm... I seem to recall something about the bushies starting an astroturf campaign by sending out letters to dozens of newspapers, each of them more or less identical, supposedly signed by people who were in the field.

Except, many of them never signed it, some never even saw the things.

http://www.theolympian.com/home/news...e/121390.shtml

I thought this tactic was recognized as an abject failure back in late 2003... someone not keeping up with current events?

[theking]

Originally posted by rickholio
Hmmm... I seem to recall something about the bushies starting an astroturf campaign by sending out letters to dozens of newspapers, each of them more or less identical, supposedly signed by people who were in the field.

Except, many of them never signed it, some never even saw the things.

http://www.theolympian.com/home/news...e/121390.shtml

I thought this tactic was recognized as an abject failure back in late 2003... someone not keeping up with current events?

Why would you say "the bushies" started a campaign?

[rickholio]

Originally posted by theking
Why would you say "the bushies" started a campaign?

Because you're either for him or against him, and if you're for war you're for bush?

Seriously now, are you going to play closet sophist and try to claim a vast leftwing conspiracy trying to discredit the war by starting an astroturf campaign?

Yes, it's a possibility, just like it's a possibility that little grey aliens spewed purple jizz onto dozens of peices of paper and mentally modified the editors of dozens of newspapers to THINK they all read the same thing.

I think I'll opt for occam's perspective on it: some PR flack charged with the task of putting a friendly face on the war got lazy and fucked up a joe job in a really obvious way. They've done it before, and they'll do it again:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0131/p11s01-coop.html