ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN IRAQ            
Monday , December 15, 2003

Since President Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1st: 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 6th, 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. Teachers earn from 12
to 25 times their former salaries.

All 240 hospitals and more than 1,200 clinics are open. Doctor’s 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 weed-choked canals; they now irrigate tens of thousand of farms and create jobs for more than 100,000 Iraqi men and women. They have restored telephone services and water production.

The wheels of commerce are turning, from bicycles, to satellite dishes, to cars,
and trucks, business are coming to life in all major cities and towns.

Children are not raped, 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 long-suffering Iraqis no longer live in perpetual terror.

Saudis will hold municipal elections.

Qatar is reforming education to give more choices to parents.

The brave young men and women of our Armed Forces are doing a great job,
are making it possible to accomplish these happenings in the name of freedom and human decency.

Pray for them.

May we never forget: “Where the spirit of the Lord is there is Liberty.” II Cor.3: 17