Speakeasy forum: An interesting read -- 'Iraq History Lesson'

A Familiar Place
It got ugly in postwar Germany, too.

Wouldn't it be nice if the media REPORTED the news rather than trying to MAKE it?

It would be nice if the media reported all of the news instead of just reporting the bad news.

I can't remember the last time, if ever, that I saw a smiling Iraqi citizen in the news, particularly the american news. We've been bombarded for weeks on end over the horrendous actions of a half a dozen soldiers (cretins) at Abu Ghraib but we hear nothing of the positive efforts of the other 160,000 troops in Iraq.

The media fails to reports that all 240 hospitals and 95% of the clinics have reopened with health care spending 26 times what it was under Saddam.

The media fails to report that the CPA has spent $9 million to clear over 18,500 kilometers of irrigation canals that were previously weed choked from years of neglect to bring water thousands of farmers.

The media fails to report that the CPA has provided funding to repair more than 1,040 schools, built playgrounds and sports fields, provided youth centers, and repaired child care centers. The Coalition Provisional Authority and Iraqi workers built a new school in Hilla, Babil Province. Liberation School, so named by local school officials, will provide more than 400 boys and girls an opportunity to attend primary school in their own neighborhood.

The media fails to report that the Humanitarian Assistance Coordination Center (HACC), operated by the Polish Army, has provided medicine, food, and toys to the Iraqi people. The HACC donated 450 cartons of antibiotics and painkillers to hospitals in Hilla and Al Kut. Toys collected by Polish children were distributed by HACC to Iraqi children at a primary school in Hilla. The Polish Army also donated 1,200 kg of food to villages near Karbala and an orphanage in Hilla.

The media fails to report anything even remotely positive achieved by the majority of troops in Iraq. Why doesn't the media report the on progress made for the benefit of the Iraqi people? Why does the media seem intent in smearing america at every chance it gets? Me thinks the media is a disgrace and should be ashamed of itself. I, for one, turned away from the TV and radio media for my news long ago. I would just as soon spend my time searching for the news that interests me instead of taking the crap they want to feed me.

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any comment on the history lesson or its accuracy in remarking the inaccuracies of your past comments regarding quagmire, no government, etc.? (I say YOUR because you were the only self proclaimed nay sayer who had the courage of his convictions to answer even if in joshing.)