Iraq-From a Soldiers View

Pvt.Pinhead · **Iraq-From a Soldiers View -** 05-11-2004, 08:08 PM

This is a letter from Ray Reynolds, a medic in the Iowa Army National Guard, serving in Iraq. Its 100% real he's from my cousins regiment or platton or something:

As I head off to Baghdad for the final weeks of my stay in Iraq, I wanted to say thanks to all of you who did not believe the media. They have done a very poor job of covering everything that has happened. I am sorry that I have not been able to visit all of you during my two week leave back home. And just so you can rest at night knowing something is happening in Iraq that is noteworthy, I thought I would pass this on to you. This is the list of things that has happened in Iraq recently: (Please share it with your friends and compare it to the version that your paper is producing.)

* Over 400,000 kids have up-to-date immunizations.
* School attendance is up 80% from levels before the war.
* Over 1,500 schools have been renovated and rid of the weapons stored there so education can occur.
* The port of Uhm Qasar was renovated so grain can be off-loaded from ships faster.
* The country had its first 2 billion barrel export of oil in August.
* Over 4.5 million people have clean drinking water for the first time ever in Iraq.
* The country now receives 2 times the electrical power it did before the war.
* 100% of the hospitals are open and fully staffed, compared to 35% before the war.
* Elections are taking place in every major city, and city councils are in place.
* Sewer and water lines are installed in every major city.
* Over 60,000 police are patrolling the streets.
* Over 100,000 Iraqi civil defense police are securing the country.
* Over 80,000 Iraqi soldiers are patrolling the streets side by side with US soldiers.
* Over 400,000 people have telephones for the first time ever.
* Students are taught field sanitation and hand washing techniques to prevent the spread of germs.
* An interim constitution has been signed.
* Girls are allowed to attend school.
* Textbooks that don't mention Saddam are in the schools for the first time in 30 years.

Don't believe for one second that these people do not want us there. I have met many, many people from Iraq that want us there, and in a bad way. They say they will never see the freedoms we talk about but they hope their children will. We are doing a good job in Iraq and I challenge anyone, anywhere to dispute me on these facts. So If you happen to run into John Kerry, be sure to give him my email address and send him to Denison, Iowa. This soldier will set him straight. If you are like me and very disgusted with how this period of rebuilding has been portrayed, email this to a friend and let them know there are good things happening.

Ray Reynolds, SFC
Iowa Army National Guard
234th Signal Battalion

Judas · 05-11-2004, 08:11 PM

i didnt read it cause i could care less about him ...

on a side note : i hope they capture his ass and make him crawl around on all fours, naked, barking like a dog.

strvs · 05-11-2004, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Judas

i didnt read it cause i could care less about him ...

on a side note : i hope they capture his ass and make him crawl around on all fours, naked, barking like a dog.

Ferich · 05-11-2004, 08:15 PM

No Wal Mart or McDonalds yet? Damn.

Short Hand · 05-11-2004, 08:26 PM

so are you 100 % sure this is real ???? not some scasm... i would love to show this to my philosphy teachers and religion teachers. It would make them drop dead.

intrestedviewer · 05-11-2004, 08:30 PM

Is that short list worth hundreds and hundreds of American lives? oOo:

Duke_of_Ray · 05-11-2004, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Judas

i didnt read it cause i could care less about him ...

on a side note : i hope they capture his ass and make him crawl around on all fours, naked, barking like a dog.

Your a sick idiot, maybe this will happen to you. annoy:

Short Hand · 05-11-2004, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by intrestedviewer

Is that short list worth hundreds and hundreds of American lives? oOo:

whats more valuble ? a white life or a brown one ?.. It such a hard thing to think about, we never know all the facts what is really going on is a major mystery to the general public. For all we know Iraq civilians could be getting masscred while US Casulty's may be higher, its so ff-ed up.

Ferich · 05-11-2004, 08:39 PM

You know Corporate America made/distributes photoshop? Probably your shoes, TV, etc etc.

Unless you live in a tent in the middle of the woods, your sig is a failed attempt at being cool.

Eames · 05-11-2004, 08:41 PM

[quote="Short Hand":0469d]so are you 100 % sure this is real ???? not some scasm... i would love to show this to my philosphy teachers and religion teachers. It would make them drop dead.[/quote:0469d]

ha your social study's teachers are raging liberals too? i wouldnt dispute the validity of these facts, but what it fails to mention is that all of this shit was paid for by the us tax payer to the sum of 25 billion dollars....and for what? bringing "democracy" to iraq? at first i thought we would at least be getting something out of this endevure....like exclusive trade rights with iraqi oil companies or something, but no....we get 25 billion dollars to add to the already large defecit thats making the interest rates on my student loans high as fuck, and a bunch of dead soldiers, and tortured iraqi prisoners. we got ourselves into this shit and we cant just turn tail and leave now, but damnit we need to do something different. I read an interesting article in the paper today about new strategies for dealing with iraq, the one that caught my eye as the best solution was to dramaticly reduce the us presense in the country to something like what we have in afganistan....where our guys arent walking around patroling the streets of cities and getting shot in the back, they stay stationed in the countryside and act on intellegince against resistors, there supporters, and there strongholds and are ready to respond to any crisis that happens in the cities, if the need arises-granted afghanistan is still an unsetelled country today.

Tripper · 05-11-2004, 08:58 PM

Reads like bullshit too me.

TonyMontana · 05-11-2004, 09:05 PM

those were 18 good things about iraq, when there are probably 1000 bad things about iraq.

Short Hand · 05-11-2004, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Ferich

You know Corporate America made/distributes photoshop? Probably your shoes, TV, etc etc.

Unless you live in a tent in the middle of the woods, your sig is a failed attempt at being cool.

"I may be a slave to this shit but I ain't afraid of it"
'SweatShopUnion'

The kool kids do all the drugs ferich, then tell everyone on the intranet about it. Ferich you know that good buddy. beer:

If i need to be more selective in what i target with my sigs then maybe...Not all corporations are "bad" its the ones that pedal money into the government influence foreigns affairs, like Shell in Niger Responsible for alot of crap their. What should my sig say Death "name all bad corporations here", it's a general broad statement.

05-11-2004, 09:11 PM

so, 600+ Americans died for Iraqis can have phones... yay

Short Hand · 05-11-2004, 09:13 PM

[quote=Eames]

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Originally Posted by "Short Hand":f90ce

so are you 100 % sure this is real ???? not some scasm... i would love to show this to my philosphy teachers and religion teachers. It would make them drop dead.

ha your social study's teachers are raging liberals too? i wouldnt dispute the validity of these facts, but what it fails to mention is that all of this shit was paid for by the us tax payer to the sum of 25 billion dollars....and for what? bringing "democracy" to iraq? at first i thought we would at least be getting something out of this endevure....like exclusive trade rights with iraqi oil companies or something, but no....we get 25 billion dollars to add to the already large defecit thats making the interest rates on my student loans high as fuck, and a bunch of dead soldiers, and tortured iraqi prisoners. we got ourselves into this shit and we cant just turn tail and leave now, but damnit we need to do something different. I read an interesting article in the paper today about new strategies for dealing with iraq, the one that caught my eye as the best solution was to dramaticly reduce the us presense in the country to something like what we have in afganistan....where our guys arent walking around patroling the streets of cities and getting shot in the back, they stay stationed in the countryside and act on intellegince against resistors, there supporters, and there strongholds and are ready to respond to any crisis that happens in the cities, if the need arises-granted afghanistan is still an unsetelled country today.[/quote:f90ce]

You just can't leave, now that you have fucked u p the nestb you gotta fix it up.