CTH Public Relations

• Torture by CO2HOG [May 02, 2012, 10:19:42 PM]
• China by CO2HOG [March 31, 2012, 02:24:13 PM]
• Global Warming Watch by TonyBlair [October 09, 2011, 06:41:37 PM]
• Solar Panel Doubts by TonyBlair [September 02, 2011, 08:25:23 AM]
• Barack Hussein Obama, Emp... by TonyBlair [August 10, 2011, 08:57:54 PM]
• National Debt Clocks and ... by Counter [August 08, 2011, 10:30:42 AM]
• Scanner or Pat Down? by Vocal Observer [June 28, 2011, 01:09:51 PM]
• Rise of the Police State by Vocal Observer [June 28, 2011, 01:01:03 PM]
• Who can we trust? by Vocal Observer [June 08, 2011, 01:07:59 PM]
• Anthony Wiener's wiener i... by CarolinaBuckeye [June 01, 2011, 11:29:22 PM]
• Democrat's Culture of Cor... by TonyBlair [May 18, 2011, 06:55:46 AM]
• Hey Obama..You want Taxes... by Vince the Fox [April 21, 2011, 03:12:25 AM]
• Obama Policy Watch by TonyBlair [April 20, 2011, 06:56:14 AM]
• George W. Obama by TonyBlair [April 19, 2011, 06:11:57 AM]
• The Religion of Peace Upd... by TonyBlair [April 12, 2011, 06:43:20 AM]

[Guest]

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever

Login with username, password and session length

Members

• Total Members: 329
• Latest: boborians

Stats

• Total Posts: 40602
• Total Topics: 5158
• Online Today: 18
• Online Ever: 252
• (April 10, 2011, 07:49:21 AM)

Users Online

Users: 0
Guests: 21
Total: 21

EducateWorthington.org

The 912 Project - Glenn Beck

912 Group of Central Ohio

Please let me know if you'd like your link added

Iraq's postwar oil exports exceed $7.5 billion

UNITED NATIONS, April 13 (Reuters) - Baghdad has exported more than $7.5 billion in crude oil since last year's invasion of Iraq, the U.S.-led authority governing Iraq said on Tuesday.
Site
 

FEATURE-Marshes revive in postwar Iraq, but old ways gone
By Alistair Lyon

HWAIR, Iraq, April 15 (Reuters) - Water is reflooding parts of the Iraqi wetlands drained by Saddam Hussein to deny refuge to Shi'ite rebels, but the communities displaced by war and oppression may never recreate their ravaged way of life.

Ole Jepsen, an adviser in Iraq's Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in the south, said 30 to 40 percent of the marshes had been reflooded since U.S.-led forces toppled Saddam a year ago. "This is more than anyone expected."

Jepsen said some 200,000 refugees from southern Iraq had returned, though not all to their ancestral homes.

Webpage

My Webpage

Decades of mismanagement and neglect by Saddam Hussein’s regime, coupled with the effects of war, have left the Iraqi people without essential services at acceptable levels. Restoring and improving these basic services helps prevent unrest and keeps Iraq from becoming another breeding ground for terrorism.

The President has requested $15 billion to speed repairs to Iraq’s dilapidated infrastructure, and help the Iraqi people with the most basic of human needs.

The coalition has completed over 13,000 reconstruction projects, large and small.

ELECTRICITY: The coalition has achieved the initial goal of surpassing pre-war peak output levels of 4,400 MW by Fall 2003. The next goal is to build to 6,000 MW by summer 2004.

OIL PRODUCTION: Decades of poor maintenance coupled with looting and sabotage have crippled Iraq’s oil industry. Repairing and securing Iraq’s oil infrastructure will raise oil production and help establish an oil industry that is essential to Iraq’s long-term economic development, making it less dependent on foreign assistance.

Oil output is averaging 1.9 million barrels per day. The pre-war production capacity was 3 million barrels per day (though average production in 2002 was only 2.2 million barrels per day).

The goal is to reach 2 million barrels per day by December 2003, and a sustainable production level of 3 million barrels per day by the end of 2004.

Iraq will receive approximately $2.7 billion in oil revenue in 2003. With improvements to the infrastructure, Iraqi oil revenues should grow to about $12 billion in 2004, and should reach roughly $18.5 billion by 2005.

WATER AND SANITATION: Under Saddam Hussein’s regime, water shortages and poor sanitation were constant problems for the people of Iraq. Remedying them is critical to supporting economic recovery and preventing disease.

2,000 repairs have been made to 143 water networks in Iraq.

Access to water and sewer services have been restored to at least pre-war levels.

Today, more Iraqis have access to clean water than before the war, but that is only 60% of the population.

The goal is to provide potable water to 90 percent of the people.

TRANSPORTATION: The Ministry of Transportation is working to establish a transportation network for efficient movement of essential products such as fuel, wheat, water, construction materials and equipment, and other supplies which drive Iraq’s economy.
Baghdad and Basra airports are again operational, now receiving Coalition and non-commercial charter flights.

The Umm Qasr sea port has been re-opened to commercial traffic, with 50,000-ton cargo ships able to load and off-load.

Despite lack of past maintenance, trains are running daily across Iraq, and major track improvement projects are underway.




 

My Webpage

EDUCATION: Under Saddam Hussein, children were forced to learn regime propaganda and taught to hate enemies of the regime—including America. We are working with Iraqis to reform and improve the nation’s education system. Education will help the Iraqi people acquire the skills to develop their economy and reform their society.

Virtually all universities have been re-opened, and hundreds of secondary schools—some of which were used to store weapons before the war —have been re-opened.

By the time school opened in October, more than 1,500 schools had been refurbished with the help of 36,000 Iraqi workers.

Reprinted textbooks that do not contain pro-Saddam propaganda are being provided.
Training has started that connects Iraqi teachers with effective teaching methods aimed at providing students with solid academic knowledge, understanding, reasoning skills, and familiarity with rights and responsibilities.

HEALTH: Under Saddam, one in eight Iraqi children died before the age of five and infant mortality was among the highest in the Arab world. Quality healthcare was reserved for Baath party officials and others connected to the regime. During the 1990’s, Saddam cut spending on public health by over 90%. Today, working closely with the Iraqi Health Ministry and other Iraqi medical professionals, the Coalition is restoring and expanding basic health care services.
 
All of Iraq’s 240 hospitals have been re-opened, and 95% of Iraq’s health clinics are open and accepting patients.

More than 22 million doses of vaccines have been delivered to support vaccinating 4.2 million children and 700,000 pregnant women. By the end of 2004, more than 90 percent of Iraqi children under age five will have been immunized against preventable diseases such as polio, tuberculosis, and measles. There are no signs of epidemics.

The Coalition delivered more than 12,000 tons of pharmaceuticals and medical supplies in the last 120 days.

Next year, the goal is to provide backup power systems to every Ministry of Health hospital in Iraq, provide medical-grade oxygen to all hospitals, and establish a healthcare facility replacement program.



 

Robot plane drops bomb in test
Another step for remote-control warfighting

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4779727/

Fallujah's civic leaders called for enemy fighters to surrender their heavy weapons in return for an end to the U.S. siege of the city.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,117467,00.html

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

From Chicago-born US Marine, Lance Corporal Ryan Christiansen, when asked if he was concerned that a ceasefire would allow Saddamite forces to regroup:

"I really don't care; they're all gonna die."

 

["The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."]

Here's an interesting prospective from none other than Geraldo, the former very liberal Democrat!

Interesting, isn't it? Surprising would be more like it.

The buildings that AREN'T burning in Iraq. "They have a saying in the news business," Geraldo Rivera related this week. "Reporters don't report buildings that don't burn." And with that introduction, he told a TV audience about the story that is being systematically denied to our entire nation: the success story of post-Saddam Iraq.

Are we losing some soldiers each week? Yes. Is there some frustration in the public about electricity and water service? ! Yes. Are some Saddam Hussein loyalists throughout the land, making trouble? Yes. Has this opened a window for some terrorist mischief? Yes. But that's ALL we hear. No wonder the country is in a mixed mood about Iraq. If you hear about the buildings that are not burning, though, it is a di fferent story indeed.

Rivera is no shill for George W. Bush. But Bush, Condi Rice and Colin Powell together could not have been as effective as Geraldo was Thursday night on the Fox News Channel's Hannity and Colmes program.

"When I got to Baghdad, I barely recognized it," he began, comparing his just-completed trip to two others he made during and just after the battle to topple Saddam. &! nbsp;"You have over 30,000 Iraqi cops and militiamen already on the job.

This is four months after major fighting stopped. Can you imagine that kind of gearing up in this country? Law and order is better; archaeological sites are being preserved; factories, schools are being guarded." But what about the secondhand griping that the media have been so efficiently relating about power, water and other infrastructure?

"To say that Iraq is being rebuilt is not true," answered Rivera. "IRAQ IS BEING BUILT". There was no infrastructure before; we are doing it. I just thin k the good news is being underestimated and underreported." At this juncture, one must evaluate how to feel about the voices telling us only about the bad news in Iraq, whether from the mouths of news anchors or Democratic presidential hopefuls. At best, they are underinformed. At worst, their one-sided assessments of post-Saddam ! Iraq are intentional falsehoods for obvious reasons.

If I hear one more person mock that "Mission Accomplished" banner beneath which President Bush thanked a shipload of sailors and Marines a few months back, I'm going to spit. That was a reference to the ouster of Saddam's regime, and that mission was indeed accomplished, apparently to the great
chagrin of the American left. No one said what followed would be easy or cheap, and that's why the dripping-water torture of the cost and casualty stories is so infuriating.

Remember we pay our soldiers whether they are in Iraq or in Ft Bragg, North Carolina.

We should all mourn the loss of every fallen soldier. But context cries out to be heard. Our present news media is not performing this task. As some dare to wonder if this might become a Vietnam-like quagmire, I'll remind whoever needs it that most of our 58,000 Vietnam war toll died between 1966 and 1972, during which we ! lost an average of about 8,000 per
year. That's about 22 per day, every day, for thousands of days on end.

Let us hear NO MORE Vietnam comparisons. They do not equate. What I hope to hear is more truth, even if we have to wrench it from the mouths of the media and political hacks predisposed to bash the remarkable job we are doing every day in what was not so long ago a totalitarian wasteland. Local elections are under way across Iraq, Rivera reported. "Where Kurds and Arabs have been battling for decades, things have been settling down. Administrator Paul Bremer is doing a great job.

So does Geraldo think his media colleagues are intentionally painting with one side of the brush? "I'm not into conspiracy theories,..but there's just more bang for your buck when you report the GI who got killed rather than the 99 who didn't get killed, who make friends, who helped schedule elections, who helped shops get open for business, who helped traffic flow again.

"The vast majority of Iraqis are very happy to have us there. I would like to see a bit more balance." This needs to be reported to the American Public who are presently being duped. I expect the dominant media culture to nitpick a! nd attack Bush, and Democrats to blast him with reckless abandon. But when that leads to the willful exclusion of facts that would shine truthful light on the great work of the American armed forces, that level of malice plumbs new depths.
 

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/TV is putting out.)

* 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
234th Signal Battalion
 

Hidden from the front pagehttp://www.amvets-ct.org/Audio_Edwin_Starr-War.html

http://www.conservativetruth.org/article.p...d4f390be98bd78d

Bush Didn’t Lie About Weapons Of Mass Destruction I
May 24, 2004
 

President Bush shakes hands with Qasim Ghida Kadhim, one of the seven Iraqis that received medical care for his amputated hand.  

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/20...bush-iraq_x.htm

http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/terroris...m/frameset.html

[terrorist training camp called Solman Pac]

MIKE BOETTCHER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Viewed from this satellite image, this patch of land inside a river bend south of Baghdad seems like an odd place for a jetliner to be parked. There's no passenger airport around, but anti-terror coalition intelligence analysts familiar with this place a few miles southeast of Baghdad say it is not so odd.

They tell CNN they strongly suspect that this old Boeing 707 fuselage, highlighted here, is part of a terrorist training camp called Solman Pac (ph), a place where, among other things, terrorists practice hijacking techniques.

Ten years after the end of the Gulf War, Solman Pac is a major piece of evidence for those who want to make Saddam Hussein's Iraq the next target in the war against terror. Iraq claims the fuselage is used for anti-terror training.

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0112/29/cst.07.html
 

Saddam's Terror Ties - Iraq-war critics ignore ample evidence.
National Review Online ^ | October 21, 2003 | Deroy Murdock - NRO Contributing Editor


Posted on 10/21/2003 9:20:00 PM PDT by Matchett-PI


As President Bush more robustly promotes his Iraq policy, he should confront directly those who dismiss Saddam Hussein's ties to terrorism and, thus, belittle a key rationale for Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Bush's critics employ a flimsy argument that nonetheless enjoys growing appeal among a largely hostile press corps. Since Hussein did not order the September 11 attacks — the fuzzy logic goes — he has no ties to terrorists, especially al Qaeda. Therefore, the Iraq war was bogus, and Bush should be defeated.

"Iraq was not a breeding ground for terrorism. Our invasion has made it one," said Senator Ted Kennedy (D., Mass.) on October 16. "We were told Iraq was attracting terrorists from al Qaeda. It was not...We should never have gone to war in Iraq when we did, in the way we did, for the false reasons we were given."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1005579/posts