What exactly is the true story about the war in Iraq that the "liberal" media is not telling us?

Question

to the first answerer- If all this is true, why are we sending more troops over there now? I know it is Clintons fault.

Answer 1

that the iraqi people dont want us there anymore. that the people in the government are making it hard for us because they want us to leave.

Answer 2

When in doubt, throw in National Security. Truth is we have no idea how great things are going in Iraq, our reporters are afraid to leave the compound except under heavily armed convoys. Of course so are our service men and women. Now that's not liberal or Conservative, just a fact. A fact that says that even if only twenty percent of the people left there are fighting, they really really want us out. And almost the whole of the middle and upper class has left the country already. We may be building schools, but the kids are afraid to go out, they have no heavy armor in kindergarten. Voting is nice, Saddam was bad, Shock and Awe destroyed the infrastructure and Iraqis won't be any happier about that than we were about 9/11. People are just like that.

Answer 3

That's a good question. I don't care what the media says or what people's opinions are. The only people that truly know what is happening over there are the Iraqis and the government. 90% of what the government knows is classified for the public's best interest. That's why the Bush administration has made the decision to send more troops, they know what's really going on over there, they came up with a plan, and they think it will solve the problems that are going on. We can criticize, blame Bush, do whatever. But it's not going to do any good. The best and most mature thing to do, is respect the decisions that the leader of this country has made and respect the fact that he could possibly have this nation's best interests in mind. When someone says something or expresses their opinions. It's ok to not agree, but it's only mature to respect their thoughts and opinions. Everyone is supposed to be equal, but unfortunately, in people's minds, it's not that way.

Answer 4

Iran as a client state certainly wasn't good for Iranians or eventually, Americans. Because our own CIA ignored the Islamic groups and concentrated on helping the Shah stamp out democratic groups, when the inevitable overthrow of the Pahlavi family happened, there were no democratic groups to step in. We helped Khomeini seize power by our actions. If we leave Iran alone, its own people will take care of things. We get everything through a media filter here in the west, and don't see the western wear on the young folks, the outright contempt for their government nor the levels of education. A friend who was in Tehran not long ago said she thought she was on L.A. rush hour, hearing "Hotel California" and Led Zeppelin blasting from cars in defiance of the law.

Answer 5

All of the roads, schools, factories, and infrastructure has been rebuilt. There is only sporadic rare acts of violence. The Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds are getting along famously. The Iraqi troops captured and executed Osama Bin Laden. It is a great sunny day in Iraq that only gets better with time.

Answer 6

Only the elite in Iraq want us to stay and fight their war. Isn't it that way world over. Rich man's war and poor man's fight.

The avarage Iraqi has nothing to gain by us staying except what he had before the war - maybe a job, running water, sewage, clean drinking water, passable roads, etc.
More than 330,000 Iraq's are dead since the start of the Bush blood bath.

Answer 7

How about:

Iraq has a successful democratic government.

The growth of the Iraqi economy.

The fact that violence in Iraq is limited to less that 20% of the country.

The fact that the vast majority of the Iraqi people support their elected government.

The fact that the people causing the violence in Iraq do not represent the Iraqi people.

The fact that the US casualty rate has been declining.

If you want the truth about what it is like in Iraq - talk to a veteran.

Answer 8

If it's classified, how do republicans 'know' that there is another story besides the one being reported? *sigh*...I don't know. But when I asked about the republican plan for fighting terrorism, I was also met with the 'national security' argument. I guess it doesn't go both ways

Answer 9

Have you considered that the only people that know the answer to your question are those privy to national security information?

No, I didn't think so.

Anything suggested would be merely a guess, an opinion or idea.

Answer 10

There have been so many success in Iraq there is no way to list them all....... here are a few
The number of trained and equipped Iraqi forces continues to grow.These security forces are becoming increasingly multi-ethnic and "beginning to represent the ethnic balance in the country."
Development of Hydrologic Model of Tigris and Euphrates River Basins. A reservoir simulation model for water allocation and flood control was completed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers/ Hydrologic Engineering Center where MOWR engineers were trained and can train others in turn. Trainings have also been conducted on stream gauging equipment.
Rehabilitated the University of Basra laboratory
Established 72 demonstration farms in the marshes, introducing new crops and improved management practices for sorghum, wheat, barley, and broad beans. Established eight date palm nurseries with 4,500 trees with a 90 percent survival rate.
Fish Restocking.
the Karrada Cultural Centre for Youth Computer Teaching has opened in a villa which once belonged to one of Saddam's bodyguards. Safa el-Din al-Sultani, who runs the centre, "admits that the centre would have not been established without the help of the US military 'The Americans welcomed the idea and they gave us 37 computers and ten play-stations,' he recounts. 'Iraq is considered to be an under-developed country. We have ignorance here and there are no centres to inform adults and youths about computers, which have become an essential element in our life,' he says."
lets see ...

The first battalion of the new Iraqi Army has graduated and is on active d uty (~60,000 Iraqis providing security to citizens).
- Nearly all of Iraq's 400 courts are functioning.
- The Iraqi judiciary is fully independent.
- Power generation hit 4,518 megawatts (Oct), exceeding prewar output.
- All 22 Universities & 43 technical institutes/colleges are open.
- Nearly all primary and secondary schools are open. - Coalition has "rehabbed" 1,500+ schools (500 ahead of schedule).
- Teachers earn from 12-25 times their former salaries.
- All 240 hospitals and more than 1200 clinics are open.
- Doctors salaries are at least 8 times what they were under Saddam.
- Pharmaceutical distribution has gone from almost zero to 12,000 tons.
- Coalition has helped administer 22 million+ vaccinations to children.
- Coalition has cleared 14,000+km of Iraq's 27,000km of weed-choked canals which now irrigate tens of thousands of farms. This project has created 100, 000+ jobs for Iraqi men & women.
- Coalition has restored over 3/4 of prewar telephone services and 2/3+ of p otable water production.
- 4,900+ full-service telephone connections (~50,000 by year-end).
- Commerce is expanding rapidly (bicycles, satellite dishes, cars, trucks, e tc) in all major cities and towns.
- 95% 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 world's most growth-oriented investment and banking la ws.
- Iraq has a single, unified currency for the first time in 15 years.
- Satellite TV dishes are legal.
- Foreign journalists are not on "10-day visas" paying mandatory fees to the Ministry of Information for minders. There is no such Ministry.
- There are 170+ newspapers.
- Foreign journalists (and everyone else) are free to come and go.
- A nation that had not one single element legislative, judicial o r executive of a representative government, now does.
- In Baghdad alone, residents have selected 88 advisory councils.
- Baghdad's democratic transfer of power (1st in 35 years); city council ele cted its new chairman.
- Iraqi Chambers of commerce, businesses, schools and professional organizat ions 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 gov't regularly participates in international events.
- Since July the Iraqi gov't has been represented in 24+ international meeti ngs, including UN General Assembly, the Arab League, the World Bank, IMF and the Islamic Conference Summit.
- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it is reopening 30+ Iraqi e mbassies worldwide.
- Shia religious festivals (all but banned) are no longer illegal.
- For the first time in 35 years, in Karbala, thousands of Shiites celebrate the pilgrimage of the 12th Imam.
- The Coalition has completed 13,000+ reconstruction projects, large and sma ll, as part of a strategic plan for the reconstruction of Iraq.
- Uday and Queasy are dead, and no longer feeding 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 th e government.
- Political opponents aren't imprisoned, tortured, executed, maimed, or forc ed to watch their families die for disagreeing with Saddam.
- Millions of long-suffering Iraqis no longer live in perpetual terror.

And every day the list continues...