There must be millions of new schools in Iraq

SHRED

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Thu Mar-23-06 08:34 AM
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There must be millions of new schools in Iraq

And think of the millions more that have been freshly painted!

3 years into Iraq and the RW talking heads are still using these tired talking-points about the "schools".
Have you noticed?

They are looking and sounding like fools.

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proud2BlibKansan

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Thu Mar-23-06 08:35 AM
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1. Do they have electricity yet?

That would be kinda important.

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godai

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Thu Mar-23-06 09:06 AM
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9. No, last I heard, less than under Saddam (eom)

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CTyankee

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Thu Mar-23-06 08:36 AM
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2. It's a tired old talking point but

they are trotting it out nonetheless. Nothin left to throw at us. We should ask them about electricity, water, sanitation and just plain personal safety. They don't want to go there!

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GreenPartyVoter

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Thu Mar-23-06 08:40 AM
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3. What good are freshly painted schools if the families are too

scared to send their kids there?

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ChairmanAgnostic

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Thu Mar-23-06 09:03 AM
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8. the fresh paint makes them easier to hit from the air with an AC-130

Electricity? What's that? Why would they need that in schools?

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vi5

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Thu Mar-23-06 08:44 AM
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4. Plus, wasn't Iraq a fairly educated country beforehand?

They make it seem like Iraqis were sitting around scratching rudimentary letters in the sand to teach their kids to read or something.

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BOSSHOG

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Thu Mar-23-06 08:44 AM
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5. A terrible conundrum for "conservatives"

They don't care that our kids are getting killed in Iraq, after all more people die in auto accidents in this country, just ask any right wing jackass with a microphone. So what would be bad news coming out of Iraq for a conservative? They don't care that our military and our economy is being eroded in the sand thousands of miles away. Deficits don't matter and we'll just build more tanks. They sure as hell don't care that innocent Iraqis are being killed.

So how can a group of people with the mindset of 16th century puritans think any news coming out of Iraq is bad?

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noamnety

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Thu Mar-23-06 08:52 AM
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6. school being reopened (photo from this last Sunday):

It's in the lower 9th ward, in New Orleans. It's being opened by Common Ground, not FEMA, not the US Government, and until now there has been no school in that neighborhood since Katrina.

Where the hell are OUR schools, if they are so damned good at building them?

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GreenPartyVoter

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Thu Mar-23-06 01:03 PM
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10. Amen!

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jbnow

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Thu Mar-23-06 09:02 AM
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7. My head spins when I hear bush say

"and now girls can go to school". Did he know anything about Iraq? They did no favors for girls or women there, they sent them back a century.

But for all kids in the troubled areas...how much has the chance of them being killed on the way to school gone up? How about the murdered teachers? He really, really should not bring up schools. This was not an uneducated nation.

And lwfern, your post really struck home.

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