If so, how many did we bomb in the first place?
2006-12-13 06:01:32 · 17 answers · asked by Poop Hole 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
no 4500 is too high but between 1000 and 2000 sounds right. and dont say it is because we blew them up. some we did but before we got there only boys ages 8-16 went to school. now boys and girls 6-17 go so there are a lot more kids in school. plus so many of the schools were falling apart when we first got there.
2006-12-13 07:05:21 · answer #1 · answered by sand runner 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
First off, the US media can choose to have you hear and see what they want you to see for governmental reasons. Which in essence means, through hand-in-pocket deals, the media will say that the US Armed Forces has built 4500 new schools in Iraq. Something of which I do not believe. First, what qualifies a building over there as a school? Two desks and a roof. All kidding aside, standards overseas in a nation that barely has clean running water, what does a schoolhouse qualify as. Last time I read and heard, there were 120 new schools that had been built by US Armed Forces.
2006-12-13 14:45:09 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not sure of the number but US troops are rebuilding schools, and other infrastructure to areas of Iraq that never had such things under Saddam. You never hear of these things because the media would prefer to talk about death and destruction. Most of these good will gestures are performed out in the countryside away from Baghdad and other dangerous locations.
2006-12-13 14:16:13 · answer #3 · answered by fortyninertu 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not. First of all, contractors who were supposed to be restoring infrastructure have been to busy swindling money out of the U.S. government to restore power, water, or even roads. Secondly, the entire country is in civil war and anything that does get built is immediately bombed by us or some group of insurgents. Schools? They don't even have power in parts of Baghdad, much less the outer limits where groups of Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites have cleaved out territories.
2006-12-13 14:58:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I saw the numbers for the Salad-al-Din province (where I was stationed during my tour there). Despite being in the middle of the 'Sunni triangle and in Saddam's hometown - we had built/restored/remodeled every school there.
Based my my observations - I would say that those numbers sound right.
BTW - we did not bomb any schools. If you think we did - name one.
2006-12-13 15:28:25 · answer #5 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They rebuilt/restored 4500 schools that were closed down/destroyed when the invasion began.
2006-12-13 16:00:38 · answer #6 · answered by LaissezFaire 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I do believe it. Nearly all the violence in Iraq occurs in and around Baghdad, one city. Iraq is a fairly large country. We never hear any of the good stuff that is going on over there.
2006-12-13 14:37:03 · answer #7 · answered by Jon M 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
By built, they mean that we have restored or made ready 4500 schools.
2006-12-13 14:03:49 · answer #8 · answered by Wocka wocka 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
built 4500, bombed 0.
2006-12-13 14:05:32 · answer #9 · answered by Zee HatMan 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Do you really believe that 450,000 Iraqis have been killed since Operation Iraqi Freedom started?
The US doesn't bomb schools on purpose...and those mass graves shouldn't count on the total number of Iraqis dead.
2006-12-13 14:19:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋