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an oxymoron, as long as the US continues to control the government in Iraq
the US government wanted to call it "operation iraqi liberation," but that stands for OIL
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1. A US military operation that is designed to bring peace to the Iraqi people and restore an economic infrastructure. (Theoretically)
2. Stepping into a hornet's nest. (Thanks to the almost daily suicide bombings)
3. A slaughter of innocent civilian and soldier lives; waste of tax dollars out of your pocket to pay for bombs and other weapons designed to kill, kill, kill.
4. The door that opens the way to generate more wealth for the miserable and unfortunate billion dollar corporations (because the CEOs need bigger mansions and another yacht... boo hoo).
1. Operation Iraqi Freedom will be one of the best things the US has done for a foreign country since the Marshall Plan. (Ideally)
2. Bad idea.
3. Soldiers die (with honor I hope) and the ones that do survive go without pay while their family back home is starving. (Source: NBC News)
4. Greedy, money hungry corporations bid on another country that they get to exploit to fatten up their wallets.
Good idea or bad idea? I hope going after Saddam Hussein was worth the costs.
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A cop out name chosen because Operation Iraqi Liberation has the initails O.I.L.
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Most pointless military operation since the Cursades.
Just goes to show you that one man playing with fire can get an entire country burned.
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A Bullshit, manufactured catchphrase used by the Bush administration to deceive the American Public.
In truth, it refers to Mr. Bush's personal crusade to avenge his father's inability to capture Saddam.
It is the Bullshit operation by the US Military to invade Iraq - which all began when Mr. Bush started lying about "weapons of mass destruction."
What a coincidence that these supposed weapons DIDN'T EVEN EXIST after we sent our troops to DIE in the Middle East.
The same type of political bullshit which came to define the Vietnam War era
There goes Mr. Bush lying to us again. Oh well, just another "Operation Iraqi Freedom"
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All: This comes from retired Admiral Martin Carmody and has some bona fides associated with it as he still is "connected" in Washington circles. Take it for what it is worth to your particular point of view.
SINCE MAY 1, 2003 Interesting points to remember when we read all the negatives that are printed daily. 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 rehabbed 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 vaccination doses 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 world’s 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 bring 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 almost every Democrat leader in the House and Senate has 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 sons and daughters 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?
I think my point has been made clear enough.
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