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December 2003
Iraq
Hey, aren't things
in Iraq supposed to be getting worse?
Since President
Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1...nearly all of Iraq’s
400 courts are functioning.
Since President
Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1... the Iraqi judiciary
is fully independent.
Since President
Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1...on Monday, October 6
power generation hit 4,518 megawatts—exceeding the pre-war average.
Since President
Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1...all 22 universities
and 43 technical institutes and colleges are open, as are nearly all
primary and secondary schools.
Since President
Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1, by October 1, Coalition
forces had rehabbed over 1,500 schools - 500 more than their target.
Since President
Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1... teachers earn from
12 to 25 times their former salaries.
Since President
Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1...all 240 hospitals and
more than 1200 clinics are open.
Since President
Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1...pharmaceutical distribution
has gone from essentially nothing to 700 tons in May to a current total
of 12,000 tons.
Since President
Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1...the Coalition has helped
administer over 22 million vaccination doses to Iraq’s children.
Since President
Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1...a Coalition program
has cleared over 14,000 kilometers of Iraq's 27,000 kilometers of weed-choked
canals. They now irrigate tens of thousands of farms. This project has
created jobs for more than 100,000 Iraqi men and women.
Since President
Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1...we have restored over
three-quarters of pre-war telephone services and over two-thirds of
the potable water production.
Since President
Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1... Iraq (has) a single,
unified currency for the first time in 15 years.
Since President
Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1...satellite dishes are
legal.
Since President
Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1... there is no Ministry
of Information.
Since President
Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1...there are more than
170 newspapers.
Since President
Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1... foreign journalists
and everyone else are free to come and go.
Since President
Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1...a nation that had not
one single element—legislative, judicial or executive-- of a representative
government, does.
Since President
Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1...Shia religious festivals
that were all but banned, aren't.
Since President
Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1...the Coalition has completed
over 13,000 reconstruction projects, large and small, as part of (a)
strategic plan for the reconstruction of Iraq.
Since President
Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1...Uday and Queasy are
dead - and no longer feeding innocent Iraqis to his zoo lions, raping
the young daughters of local leaders to force cooperation, torturing
Iraq's soccer players for losing games...murdering critics.
Since President
Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1...children aren't imprisoned
or murdered when their parents disagree with the government.
Since President Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1...political
opponents aren't imprisoned, tortured, executed, maimed, or are forced
to watch their families die for disagreeing with Saddam.
Since President Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1...millions
of longsuffering Iraqis no longer live in perpetual terror.
Since President Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1...Saddam
is gone.
Since President Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1... Iraq
is free.
This is maybe half
the list. Go read the rest and remind me again why invading Iraq was a
humanitarian disaster.
Not that this will
prevent the leftist "peace" crowd from wishing Saddam was still
in power. Coz they really really care about innocent people man.....
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Scum
Moral equivalency
galore over at Islamonline.net,
in Kareem M. Kamel's sickening justification for Palestinian suicide bombings:
In this regard,
one must note that Israel’s military strategy had always been to
export fear into neighboring countries, and the Israeli military always
made sure that the battleground for any Arab-Israeli conflict would
be outside the borders of Israel. This was exemplified by the Arab-Israeli
wars of 1956, 1967, 1973 and 1982, all of which took place on Arab territory.
On the other hand, all the military operations during the Intifada took
place within the borders of Israel, with many Palestinian bombings and
guerilla operations taking place inside Israeli towns, cities and settlements.
Nice huh? The Arabs
start wars of extermiantion against Israel, then complain the Jews fight
back against them on "Arab territory". The
peace-loving arabs then conduct their "military operations"
by targeting civilains, then claim they are only doing what the
horrible Jewboys have done.
Nice people.
Also, be sure not
to miss their fabulously delusional "Islamic
Viewpoint" Q&A page.
Or their views on
homosexuality:
the punishment here
is the burning of both homosexuals (the actor and acted upon) or stoning
them with rocks till death because Allah Most High stoned the people
of Lot after demolishing their village.
This gives "compassionate
conservatism" a whole new meaning.
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Essential reading for the day
Damian Penny's brilliant
mini-screed on Islamic hatred:
If Israel leaves
the West Bank and Gaza, the Arabs will complain that Palestinian "refugees"
haven't been allowed to return to Israel. If Israel, heaven forbid,
decided to let these "refugees" return, they will complain
about the "economic inequality" between the Arabs and the
Jews. If the Jews gave all their money, property and power to the Palestinians,
the complaint will be that the "legacy of oppression" makes
it impossible for Palestinians to share a country with Israelis. And
if the Jews were ethnically cleansed from the area altogether, they'll
complain that the rest of the world is still "controlled"
by them.
Barring military
conquest and "de-Nazification" of the Middle East, this pathological
hatred will not end until every Jew in the world - not just Israel,
but the world - is slaughtered. And when the Jews can't be blamed anymore,
they'll turn on Westerners. Then the Christians. Then the Sufis. Then
the Shi'ites. And so on. (Why do I write about the Jews so often? Because
eventually their persecutors, regardless of how much we try to appease
them today, will come for the rest of us.)
Make sure to read
the report that precedes this piece. Frightening.
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The joys of farm subsidies
John Humphreys at
libertarian.org.au site argues
that not only are they economically foolish, they're
bad for the environment.
(Warning: The ALS
still seems to be using a webserver they found in a public toilet somewhere,
so you may need to try the link more than once to get it to load)
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