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Does the MSM (with very, very few exceptions) just sit on anything positive coming out of Iraq? Or am I too cynical?

When I think that in just over one year, all this has been achieved while simultaneously fighting a war, these men and women are AMAZING!!! Let's spread the word!


Facts and Figures
Education
3300 Iraqi schools renovated, or soon to be completed, since the overthrow of Saddam
("What We've Accomplished," Fox News Sunday, April 30, 2004)

9 Million New math and science textbooks printed and distributed with pro-Saddam propaganda extracted
("What We've Accomplished," Fox News Sunday, April 30, 2004)

85% Primary and secondary schools that have re-opened since the overthrow of Saddam
("Free After 50 Years of Tyranny," The Observer, October 5, 2003)

159,000 Student desks distributed to Iraqi schools
("Countdown to Sovereignty," Coalition Provisional Authority)

81,735 Teaching kits distributed to Iraqi primary school teachers
("Countdown to Sovereignty," Coalition Provisional Authority)

Human Rights
71% Proportion of Iraqis in a February 2004 survey that said they expected their lives to be even better in a year
("National Survey of Iraq," Oxford Research International, February 2004)

76,000 New jobs created by the Iraqi National Employment Program
("Countdown to Sovereignty," Coalition Provisional Authority)

600 New judges presently working in Iraqi Courts of Law
("What We've Accomplished," Fox News Sunday, April 30, 2004)

170 Newspapers currently published in Iraq
("Countdown to Sovereignty," Coalition Provisional Authority)

33% Percentage of Iraqis that receive worldwide information via satellite
("What We've Accomplished," Fox News Sunday, April 30, 2004)

70 Mosques refurbished by coalition forces
("Countdown to Sovereignty," Coalition Provisional Authority)

Healthcare
$1 Billion Current budget for the Iraqi Ministry of Health; 25 times greater than the $16 million annual budget under Saddam's reign
("A Year After Liberation," The Washington Post, April 9, 2004)

25% Increase in immunization rates among Iraqi children
("What We've Accomplished," Fox News Sunday, April 30, 2004)

75 Iraqi medical facilities refurbished by the Coalition Provisional Authority
("Countdown to Sovereignty," Coalition Provisional Authority)

700,000 Pregnant Iraqi women received a tetanus toxoid vaccination to improve their pre-natal healthcare
("Countdown to Sovereignty," Coalition Provisional Authority)

Infrastructure
500,000 Average increase in the daily number of oil barrels produced
("What We've Accomplished," Fox News Sunday, April 30, 2004)

16 Average number of hours of electricity for Iraqi citizens; a 40 percent increase from levels under Saddam
("What We've Accomplished," Fox News Sunday, April 30, 2004)

20 Million Iraqis of the country's 27 million citizens receive clean water due to new water and sanitation projects
("Countdown to Sovereignty," Coalition Provisional Authority)

1,005,580 Iraqi telephone subscribers; a 20 percent increase from under Saddam
("Countdown to Sovereignty," Coalition Provisional Authority)

Government and Politics
67 Iraqi cities with fully functioning municipalities only four months after the beginning of the war
("The Real Iraq," The New York Post, July 17, 2003)

85% Percentage of small Iraqi towns that had fully functioning municipalities only four months after the beginning of the war
("The Real Iraq," The New York Post, July 17, 2003)

81 Iraqi women serve on neighborhood and district councils around Baghdad
("U.S. Commitment to Women in Iraq," Office of International Women's Issues, May 24, 2004)

6 Iraqi women appointed as Cabinet-level ministers in the newly-formed Iraqi Interim Government
("The Interim Iraqi Government," Coalition Provisional Authority, June 1, 2004)

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