A letter from a solider in Iraq
 

Interesting facts you don't really hear about that often. Guess the media finds car bombs more important than the actual quality of life in Iraq....


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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 have 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 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.
* 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

well that's new information thanks for that

It's old (Notice they mention August, which hasn't occured yet this year) ... And it's probably a hoax.

Hate to burst the bubble.

some of that is accurate, some is plainly not.

http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusi...yreynolds.html

OH JESUTH CHRISTH NO!

MY WORLD IS CRUMBLING!

EVERYTHING I BELIEVED IN IS GONE!

:sleep :sleep :sleep

Nothing says entertainment like a chain letter.

horrible

Where's that timeline pic?

This thing was proven bullshit a year ago.

Read a fucking newspaper sometime. Jeesh. :321GFY

OHHH what a fucking bullshit!!!! hhahahaha

If you believe this your are an moron sir!

:321GFY

And a couple of days ago they found 3 nukes. :1orglaugh

Some people want to believe so bad that Bush didn't make a major cluster fuck that they will believe anything.

http://www.jerkit.net/forums/uploads/images/827.jpg

:Graucho :Graucho :Graucho

:1orglaugh YEA SURE TO THE USA FOR FREE :1orglaugh

Gotta love republican propaganda... They used the good ol' homeboy approach on this one.

Not surprising.

Actually it would be very surprising.

"The sabotage attacks, which spread this year to include oil installations in the country's mostly Shi'ite south, has helped prevent Iraq from reaching the prewar export level of around 2.2 million bpd. " - Reuters

So even if there are no holes blasted in the pipeline they are only pumping 66 million barrels per month.

The Bushies better get this guy working on the budget to make things look good before the election. :1orglaugh

2 Billion Barrels of Oil * $30+ per barrel = $60 Billion To Repay US Taxpayers

:1orglaugh - Like this will ever happen.

thats news

bullshit propaganda without a doubt

Ahhhh there we go. Thanks mate. :thumbsup