31/10/2004 8:48:02 pm
Good News From Iraq. In the media, we constantly see continued problems in Iraq. Violence seems to be everywhere, people die and various organisations are leaving the country. Often, this is also considered to show that the invasion of Iraq and the removal of Saddam Hussein was wrong. But there are numerous other facts from the new Iraq that are seldom shown in the media; positive signs of a free society being built step by step. There is a new currency, schools are being built, more people go to work, ever more companies are listed on the new stock exchange, tens of free newspapers are circulated, elections will be held in January. And don′t forget what is not there any more; no killings of curds, no torture by the regime, no totalitarian oppression. Andrew Cherenkoff gathers such facts, also about the new Afgahnistan (where the first person to vote in their first free elections ever was a 19-year old woman), and it is very useful reading - not least as a balance against the ordinary media.
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