liveinfreedom .'s List: IRAQ Improvements

• The Baghdadis caught between these extremes know that the only thing standing in the way of another sectarian conflagration is the U.S. military. This may explain why every Iraqi who offers me a view on American politics seems to be praying for a McCain victory. A 100-year American military presence, of which McCain once spoke, may seem a bit much; I suspect most Iraqis would be happy with five.
• in the Jadriyah district, we get four to six hours of electricity a day, up from just two hours.
• Many are former insurgents who are happy to accept salaries ($300 per month, paid by the U.S., not the Iraqi government)
• from the men they once hoped to kill.
• Now, says Ali al-Dabbagh, spokesman for the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, all the credit for the decline in violence is going to the U.S. military: "People think the Americans are like Superman, who can do anything."
• . But colleagues recently embedded with U.S. troops in Baghdad tell stories of soldiers being received with smiles and waves, even cups of tea. Driving through the city,

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• Sadam's regime wanted to kill 20 million Iraquis.
  - liveinfreedom . on 2008-03-08

• Story on Baqubah.
  - liveinfreedom . on 2008-02-19

• Walk through Anbar province with an independent reported named Michael Totten who reports the news that "main street media' (msm) won't report to the public.
  - liveinfreedom . on 2008-02-20

• Kirkuk is a reasonably stable province in Iraq. Read the story reported by an independent reporter named Michael Totten
  - liveinfreedom . on 2008-02-20

• MIichael Totten reports what other "main street media" (msm) will not report to the public anything that is devoid of "violence" because anything that is "peaceful" won't sell newspapers or magazines or TV advertising. 
  
  Remember this phrase used by (msm) "it it bleeds it reads" meaning that people will spend money for "msm" material if it contains blood and guts, scandal, or some out of good moral standards behaviors.
  - liveinfreedom . on 2008-02-20

• Who says that America tells the Iraqi govenment what to do?
  - liveinfreedom . on 2008-02-20

• The troops don't have enough to deal with when they remove terrorist from Iraq...now they have this virulent bacteria to deal with. 
  - liveinfreedom . on 2008-02-23

• WOW! and the presidential candidates are speaking of cutting taxes!
  - liveinfreedom . on 2008-02-23

• Turkey is attacking the PKK using cross border pursuit of the PKK terrorist.
  - liveinfreedom . on 2008-02-23

• What an insame part of th world it is in the MID-EAST; can anyone believe that this crap actually occurs because of some stupic ideology adherence to cause these problems to exist.
  - liveinfreedom . on 2008-02-24

• Resolution 1302 is a continuation of the Oil-for-Food programme, which was not designed to resolve the crisis in Iraq. When it was assembled in 1996, it was designed to stop further deterioration. But the fact is that Oil-for-Food has sustained the humanitarian crisis. Mortality rates of children under five years of age still remain at 5,000 per month, plus an additional 2,000-3,000 people per month among adults, other children and teenagers. These people are dying because of bad water, inadequate diets, broken down hospital care and collapsed systems.   

  We have massive malnutrition in Iraq, despite the Oil-for-Food programme. There is a huge social collapse, families falling apart with children out of school taking to the streets. The electric power is 35 per cent of what it was in 1990. So the Oil-for-Food programme has totally failed to bring about the well being of the Iraqi people. Having said that, it has, however, provided something like 20 million tonnes of basic food. It does make a huge difference in keeping the Iraqi people alive -- but only barely alive.   

  The conditions in Iraq today under the UN economic sanctions and the Oil-for-Food programme constitute famine conditions. The average birth weight of a child in Iraq today is less than five pounds. That is an indicator of famine. The Oil-for-Food programme is something that the UN should be ashamed of. It is a continuation of the genocide that the economic embargo has placed on Iraq.

• While there are many controversies regarding U.N. resolutions and sanctions placed by the U.N. against Iraq it remains a fact that Sadam's beligerent attitude to the U.N. documents and to the IAIE (Unscom) caused the death of the people and children identified in the data below.
  
  
  Resolution 1302
  is a continuation of the Oil-for-Food programme, which was not designed
  to resolve the crisis in Iraq. When it was assembled in 1996, it was
  designed to stop further deterioration. But the fact is that
  Oil-for-Food has sustained the humanitarian crisis. Mortality rates of
  children under five years of age still remain at 5,000 per month, plus
  an additional 2,000-3,000 people per month among adults, other children
  and teenagers. These people are dying because of bad water, inadequate
  diets, broken down hospital care and collapsed systems.

  We
  have massive malnutrition in Iraq, despite the Oil-for-Food programme.
  There is a huge social collapse, families falling apart with children
  out of school taking to the streets. The electric power is 35 per cent
  of what it was in 1990. So the Oil-for-Food programme has totally
  failed to bring about the well being of the Iraqi people. Having said
  that, it has, however, provided something like 20 million tonnes of
  basic food. It does make a huge difference in keeping the Iraqi people
  alive -- but only barely alive.

  The
  conditions in Iraq today under the UN economic sanctions and the
  Oil-for-Food programme constitute famine conditions. The average birth
  weight of a child in Iraq today is less than five pounds. That is an
  indicator of famine. The Oil-for-Food programme is something that the
  UN should be ashamed of. It is a continuation of the genocide that the
  economic embargo has placed on Iraq.
  

  - liveinfreedom . on 2008-02-22

• Clinton on 'no fly zone"  resolution UUn 986 food for oil interrupted by Sadam 1996
  - liveinfreedom . on 2008-02-28

• Sadam you cannot defy the "will" of the world.
  - liveinfreedom . on 2008-02-28

• Weapons of Mass Destruction speech by Clinton
  - liveinfreedom . on 2008-02-28