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MagicMtnDan
02-06-2004, 06:59 AM
From the Commanding Officer at MWSS-171 to his Marines.
Marines and Sailors,
As we approach the end of the year I think it is important to share a few thoughts about what you've accomplished directly, in some cases, and indirectly in many others. I am speaking about what the Bush Administration and each of you has contributed by wearing the uniform, because the fact that you wear the uniform contributes 100% to the capability of the nation to send a few onto the field to execute national policy. As you read about these achievements you are a part of I would call your attention to two things:
1. This is good news that hasn't been fit to print or report on TV.
2. It is much easier to point out the errors a man makes when he makes the tough decisions, rarely is the positive as aggressively pursued. Since President Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1...
... the first battalion of the new Iraqi Army has graduated and is on active duty.
... over 60,000 Iraqis now provide security to their fellow citizens.
... nearly all of Iraq's 400 courts are functioning.
... the Iraqi judiciary is fully independent.
... on Monday, October 6 power generation hit 4,518 megawatts-exceeding the prewar average.
... all 22 universities and 43 technical institutes and colleges are open, as are nearly all primary and secondary schools.
... by October 1, Coalition forces had rehab-ed over 1,500 schools - 500 more than scheduled.
... teachers earn from 12 to 25 times their former salaries.
... all 240 hospitals and more than 1200 clinics are open.
... doctors salaries are at least eight times what they were under Saddam.
... pharmaceutical distribution has gone from essentially nothing to 700 tons in May to a current total of 12,000 tons.
... the Coalition has helped administer over 22 million vaccinations to Iraq's children.
... a Coalition program has cleared over 14,000 kilometers of Iraq's 27,000 kilometers of weed-choked canals which now irrigate tens of thousands of farms. This project has created jobs for more than 100,000 Iraqi men and women.
... we have restored over three-quarters of prewar telephone services and over two-thirds of the potable water production.
... there are 4,900 full-service telephone connections. We expect 50,000 by year-end.
... the wheels of commerce are turning. From bicycles to satellite dishes to cars and trucks, businesses are coming to life in all major cities and towns.
... 95 percent of all prewar bank customers have service and first-time customers are opening accounts daily.
... Iraqi banks are making loans to finance businesses.
... the central bank is fully independent.
... Iraq has one of the worlds most growth-oriented investment and banking laws.
... Iraq has a single, unified currency for the first time in 15 years.
... satellite TV dishes are legal.
... foreign journalists aren't on 10-day visas paying mandatory and extortionate fees to the Ministry of Information for "minders" and other government spies.
... there is no Ministry of Information.
... there are more than 170 newspapers.
... you can buy satellite dishes on what seems like every street corner.
... foreign journalists (and everyone else) are free to come and go.
... a nation that had not one single element - legislative, judicial or executive - of a representative government, now does.
... in Baghdad alone residents have selected 88 advisory councils. Baghdad's first democratic transfer of power in 35 years happened when the city council elected its new chairman.
... today in Iraq chambers of commerce, business, school and professional organizations are electing their leaders all over the country.
... 25 ministers, selected by the most representative governing body in Iraq's history, run the day-to-day business of government.
... the Iraqi government regularly participates in international events. Since July the Iraqi government has been represented in over two dozen international meetings, including those of the UN General Assembly, the Arab League, the World Bank and IMF and, today, the Islamic Conference Summit. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs today announced that it is reopening over
30 Iraqi embassies around the world.
... Shia religious festivals that were all but banned, aren't.
... for the first time in 35 years, in Karbala thousands of Shiites celebrate the pilgrimage of the 12th Imam.
... the Coalition has completed over 13,000 reconstruction projects, large and small, as part of a strategic plan for the reconstruction of Iraq.
... Uday and Queasy are dead - and no longer feeding innocent Iraqis to the zoo lions, raping the young daughters of local leaders to force cooperation, torturing Iraq's soccer players for losing games, or murdering critics.
... children aren't imprisoned or murdered when their parents disagree with the government.
... political opponents aren't imprisoned, tortured, executed, maimed, or are forced to watch their families die for disagreeing with Saddam.
... millions of longsuffering Iraqis no longer live in perpetual terror.
... Saudis will hold municipal elections.
... Qatar is reforming education to give more choices to parents.
... Jordan is accelerating market economic reforms.
... the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded for the first time to an Iranian -- a Muslim woman who speaks out with courage for human rights, for democracy and for peace.
... Saddam is gone.
... Iraq is free.
... President Bush has not faltered or failed.
... Yet, little or none of this information has been published by the Press corps that prides itself on bringing you all the news that's important.
Iraq under US lead control has come further in six months than Germany did in seven years or Japan did in nine years following WWII. Military deaths from fanatic Nazi's, and Japanese numbered in the thousands and continued for over three years after WWII victory was declared.
It took the US over four months to clear away the twin tower debris, let alone attempt to build something else in its place.
Now, take into account that Congress fought President Bush on every aspect of his handling of this country's war and the post-war reconstruction; and that they continue to claim on a daily basis on national TV that this conflict has been a failure.
Taking everything into consideration, even the unfortunate loss of our brothers and sisters in this conflict, do you think anyone else in the world could have accomplished as much as the United States and the Bush administration in so short a period of time?
These are things worth writing about. Get the word out. Write to someone you think may be able to influence our Congress or the press to tell the story.
Above all, be proud that you are a part of this historical precedent. God Bless you all. Have a great Holiday.
Semper Fidelis,

Laveyman
02-06-2004, 07:10 AM
AMEN!!!

Blown 472
02-06-2004, 07:49 AM
And they are building a pepsi plant there.

Laveyman
02-06-2004, 08:11 AM
Originally posted by Blown 472
And they are building a pepsi plant there.
Now even Iraqi's can enjoy the pleasures of Mountain Dew! Life is good!
All they need now is a Starbuck's on every friggin corner and they'll be living the high life!

HyRider15
02-06-2004, 08:14 AM
Our Liberal media is a goddam joke.
They do the same thing with most issues.

Dave C
02-06-2004, 08:22 AM
saw this one today, one of my favorites:
You know, it is easy to forget the 'promises' that Bill and Hillary Clinton made while in office. It strikes home when it is listed like this:
After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six and
injured 1000; President Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
BUSH DID IT!
After the 1995 bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed five U.S.
military personnel; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
BUSH DID IT!
After the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 and injured 200 U.S. military personnel; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
BUSH DID IT!
After the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa, which killed
224 and injured 5,000; Clinton promised that those responsible! would be hunted down and punished.
BUSH DID IT!
After the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 and injured 39 U.S. sailors; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
BUSH DID IT!
Maybe if Clinton had kept his promise, an estimated 3,000 people in New York and Washington, D.C. that are now dead would be alive today.
BUSH TOLD THOSE FIREMAN: "THEY WOULD HEAR US TOO!"
And, now that Bush is taking action to bring these people to
justice, we have Democrats charging him with being a war monger.
AN INTERESTING QUESTION: This question was raised on a Philly radio call-in show. Without casting stones, it is a legitimate question. There are two men, both extremely wealthy. One develops relatively cheap software and gives billions of dollars to charity. The other sponsors terrorism. That being the case, why was it that the Clinton administration spent more money
chasing down Bill Gates over the past eight years than Osama bin Laden?
THINK ABOUT IT!
It is a strange turn of events. Hillary Clinton gets $8 Million for
her forthcoming memoir. Bill Clinton gets about $12 Million for his memoir yet to be written. This from two people who have spent the past 8 years being unable to recall anything about past events while under oath!

Dave C
02-06-2004, 08:23 AM
and from the WSJ:
All of this anti-WMD progress contrasts dramatically with what took place during the late 1990s, when the U.S. was supposedly just as worried about nuclear proliferation. We now know that those were the years when Mr. Khan spread his nuclear wares, when Gadhafi gathered his centrifuges, when Iraq kicked out U.N. inspectors and Iran deceived the world, and when North Korea was preparing to enrich uranium even while it negotiated new "disarmament" deals with the Clinton Administration. One obvious conclusion is that none of these proliferators believed the U.S. or U.N. were serious about confronting them. And at the time they were right.
All of that changed with the Bush policy of challenging terrorists and the states that support them after 9/11. With the fall of the Taliban and Saddam, the world's dictators have learned that protecting terrorists or pursuing WMD can interfere with lifetime tenure. So they are deciding to turn state's evidence, against themselves and others. Or to put it in terms even Washington may understand: The Bush strategy is working.

Blown 472
02-06-2004, 08:25 AM
Originally posted by HyRider15
Our Liberal media is a goddam joke.
They do the same thing with most issues.
The media didn't say anything other than they interviewed a engineer that got hurt in a bombing that was building a pepsi plant.

HighRoller
02-06-2004, 09:28 AM
This whole affair has shown one thing clearly. The U.N. is a worthless organization that couldn't stop a dog from peeing on a tree, much less stare down a ruthless dictator. We were the ones that got the job done when the U.N. was once again proven impotent by Saddam, raising the question of why we even participate in this sham organization? We pay more than 50% of the money into the U.N. yet receive only 20% representation. In addition, we provide a majority of the military force that they use for pizze delivery..oops I mean peacekeeping missions. We need to tell them to get stuffed because the U.N. only serves to try and equalize our power by giving piss ant countries like France the power to veto us. But when the shit hits the fan everyone comes running to us!
Also, I crack up at the left wingers who are hating on Bush because he waged an "illegal and immoral war". I don't remember hearing these people saying a single word when Clinton bombed Bosnia and killed innocent people. They aren't against the war per say, they just use it as a hammer because they hate Bush and his politics. And the media truly is a joke, because had this war been waged by Clinton he would have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize while the press hailed him as "courageous" for standing up to Saddam. Of course, if this were Clinton's war, the Army would still be trying to FIND Iraq.

mirvin
02-06-2004, 09:52 AM
Did anyone hear Jane Harmon babbling yesterday? I swear to god she said this regarding WMD in Iraq:
"Well we certainly won't be finding a smoking gun in the form of a mushroom cloud"
HOLY SHIT!! That's right, there will be no mushroom cloud coming from Iraq because we put a stop to it before it happened.
What an idiot. I just about crashed my truck when I heard her say that.
Mirvin:eek:

eliminatedsprinter
02-06-2004, 10:07 AM
I heard an idea the other day (I think it was from Dennis Miller) on how to get the UN to have a more realistic view of the middle east. Move there headquarters to some middle eastern 4th world country and make the UN reps live there among the people, under their laws, and let them see first hand how they live and how they feel about how those of us in the west live. :idea: Make those UN reps live under islamic law and then lets here all their cultural relativism BS.....

BUSTI
02-06-2004, 10:14 AM
Mirvin,
Oh my God where did she say that ...on talk radio? what a moron that bitch is! You are lucky you didn't crash!!!!

mirvin
02-06-2004, 10:20 AM
Originally posted by BUSTI
Mirvin,
Oh my God where did she say that ...on talk radio? what a moron that bitch is! You are lucky you didn't crash!!!!
Busti, yes it was on the radio!! It was on just a random hourly news report and she was talking about how the war was based on lies and there are no wmd and she acted like she was saying something intellegent.
The best part was that it became obvious that she wasn't going to feel good about invading Iraq unless there was a terrible battlefield tradgedy thus prooving to her that they had/ have the bad stuff :eek:
I wish I had recorded the interview somehow:confused:
Mirvin

Backtanner
02-06-2004, 10:47 AM
Originally posted by eliminatedsprinter
I heard an idea the other day (I think it was from Dennis Miller) on how to get the UN to have a more realistic view of the middle east. Move there headquarters to some middle eastern 4th world country and make the UN reps live there among the people, under their laws, and let them see first hand how they live and how they feel about how those of us in the west live. :idea: Make those UN reps live under islamic law and then lets here all their cultural relativism BS.....
They did set up an office in Baghdad and look what happened....
UN envoy blasted (http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/08/19/sprj.irq.main/)

Dave C
02-06-2004, 01:45 PM
Did you guys here about all the kickbacks those working for the Iraq's UN oil for food program received?
They got millions through payments of oil. Annan, Arafat, the list goes on.
I will see if I can find the link.