Decaf wrote:Just thought I'd breathe some fresh air in to the stale atmosphere of cynic's paranoia and discontent
Enjoy
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,114684,00.html
Ah, Decaf, nice of you to grace us with a four year old bunch of Republican fluff and puff from Fox News, and I would not be at all surprised if they got their figures from good old Donny Rumsfeld himself. Gee, that brings back memories. Back in March 2004 some people still actually thought there really were WMD's somewhere in Iraq. Imagaine that.

Some people maybe even still thought Bush had a clue too. And we only had a total of 600 or so dead US troops then. 4,000 dead US troops now. Has Fox News been reporting that?
But I digress. Lets take the issue of Iraq's health care. Here's is a piece of supposed data from your article
"240 hospitals and most of Iraq's 1200 clinics have reopened. 70 private hospitals are operating."
Depends on how one defines "opened", I guess. Maybe "opened" means the doors aren't locked. And as for Doctors, that is another story. Here is something more current, from this January.
LONDON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Iraq's healthcare is in disarray with doctors and nurses fleeing abroad and child death rates soaring, according to a report on Wednesday.
Up to 75 percent of Iraq's doctors, pharmacists and nurses have left their jobs since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. More than half of those have emigrated, the report by health organisation Medact said.
"The health system is in disarray, not only because of the underlying security, but owing to the lack of an institutional framework, huge staff shortages, intermittent electricity, unsafe water supply and frequent violations of medical neutrality," the report, "Rehabilitation Under Fire", said.
Iraq has only around 9,000 doctors, giving a ratio of six doctors to every 10,000 people. By comparison, the ratio in Britain is 23 to every 10,000...http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL1682858875% of the doctors, pharmacists and nurses in Iraq have flown the coop. That's progress, Decaf. Bush progress.
Better get some fresh air, Decaf. This post of yours was really stale.
