No....what is obscene is your eagerness to remain ignorant.
My proof is my experience and my knowledge in my decade's worth of study. My proof is also common sense...something you are obviously sorely lacking. It doesn't take a genius to know that life today is far better than a life under a dictator. But then...what would you know about it? You were born a life of priviledge and have no idea what the third world lives like. It's easy for someone like you to dismiss reality. The need to criticize your own country alongside the worthless masses around the world that need us as a scapegoat to explain away their own inadequicies, speaks volumes on you more than it does about the masses. While reflecting on the evilness of the war "whores" and how they benefit....make sure you fill your car up with gas....hypocrit.
REPOST - Despite the risk of death, Iraqis of every background came out to vote on two separate significant occasions this year. Despite the fear and the grim picture being painted on the situation in Iraq, the terrorists proved powerless to halt the country's progress. Despite the murder and the terror to instill deep fear upon people who would be free, the Iraqi people continue to send a clear mission to Islam’s most perverted adherents and the Arab elite throughout the region. Never before in the Arab world have a country's citizens been permitted to vote on the laws that would govern them. Even if Iraq must endure further blood shed, this is a historic moment in the Middle East. One that will prove to be a turning point for the Arab and Persian future and one that will be a historical era for our future security. Our media's response? These votes don't matter. The Iraqi government is a puppet government. Their new constitution's flawed. Iraq's Sunni Arabs will resort to civil war. The voices of doom are always in a hurry to turn any bit of light into the grimmest story line. Currently, while the media and the negative frenzied viewers embrace the notion that after two years, only “one” battalion of Iraqis are acting on their own (thanks to the misinformation given by a certain Army Generel who’s loyalty was more for his political masters rather than his troops or the truth), they dismiss that there are over 58,000 Iraqi soldiers trained and fighting along side Americans. By contrast, it took 14 months to establish a police force in Germany and 10 years to begin training a new German army. The media will quickly point out the destroyed schools from our bombing and our fighting with their region’s extremists, yet, dismiss the fact that most of the decay is the result of over a decade of neglect and under-funding following the imposition of UN sanctions after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, as well as the impact of three wars starting with the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war. Despite the global left wishing and giving impressions that “we” are to take credit for all of this destruction, the truth is that we are funding and building schools, through contractors and Seabees, all over Iraq and despite much of the current poor facilities, a recent survey by UNICEF found that overall enrollment has surged from 3.6 million youngsters in primary school in 2000 to some 4.3 million at present. Levels of satisfaction in Iraq vary by region. Among the Kurds, 85 percent think life has improved since the fall of Saddam. In the Mid-Euphrates region and the south, 52 percent are more satisfied. In Baghdad there was a three-way split between better, worse, and don't know. And in the Sunni Triangle only 12 percent think things have gotten better, understandable given both the fact that they had enjoyed special privileges under Saddam, and those who are now denied those privileges are making life difficult for everybody. Naturally, the security situation is on people's minds. Around 70 percent of respondents either agreed or strongly agreed with the statements, "Life today is full of uncertainty" and "I am afraid for myself and my family." However, there were similar high scores agreeing to the statement "I am hopeful for the future," and the highest scoring statement of all was "I think things will slowly get better."
When the Marines took Fallujah at the end of last year, they began the strategically important process of interdicting the insurgents' infiltration routes from the Syrian border into the heart of Iraq. One ratline follows the Euphrates River corridor — running from Syria to Husayba on the Syrian border and then through Qaim, Rawa, Haditha, Asad, Hit, and Fallujah to Baghdad. The other follows the course of the Tigris — from the north through Mosul-Tel Afar to Tikrit and on to Baghdad. Operations followed throughout the spring and summer of 2005. While the earlier operations succeeded in keeping the pressure on the insurgents in Al-Anbar province they could not prevent the insurgents from abandoning one town and moving to another not threatened by allied forces.
That has begun to change lately (around September) and one of the reasons is that our forces are able to apply simultaneous force against the insurgent strongholds and, more important, to stay in the area because many Iraqi units are now able to conduct combat operations with minimal U.S. support. This kind of information is usually not a matter for public attention, because every time a soldier of “Allah” decides to get to heaven faster, he destroys civilian lives for the entertainment of media cameras.
You won’t hear any of this though, because Al-Queda doesn’t need to know of the Iraqi successes (which offers the devils of progress fresh targets) and despite them knowing just how badly their murderous rampages are failing to inspire fear, the media isn’t interested. The intelligence community always offers consistency by doing as they always do - covering their asses. Every so often, National Intelligence Reports that are released reveal a bleak picture regarding Iraq’s future that counteracts the reality of military reports and current events. Why? Because intel bureaucrats don’t want to be blamed if things go wrong. There’s nothing safer than assuming failure.
Regarding UNICEF:
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news..._IN_IRAQ_LACK_BASICS_FOR_DECENT_EDUCATION.asp
Nothing that has come out of this administration is brand new. If you took the time to read on the subject and the situation, instead of hiding from the voices in your head, you would find a wealth of books and documentation written by intelligence officers in all levels going back to the mid 80's concerning the need for a changed Middle East. If you weren't determined to be obtuse and ignorant, you wouldn't have to ask me to "prove" my business. Every President has known it and none did anything about it. Your entire post was ignorant. You're the only one parading around that Iraq was solely about "liberation." Talk about a fantasy world.:roll:
