Iraq

If you want to know more about memogate or rathergate, please see Tuesday's entry and visit the blogs listed, they all have a fair amount of commentary.

How is the reconstruction going in Iraq? Well here it or rather read it first hand from Rick Sackett who has spent a year in Iraq working for an NGO (meaning he and his wife were civilians and not making the big bucks more then likely) doing many of the things we don't hear about on the media. Hat tip Winds of Change.

I appreciate his last paragraph of his column and have reprinted it in full. No things are not perfect in Iraq but they do seem to be better then most in the media want to believe.

So what is the truth? Am I telling you the truth when I say the vast majority of Iraqi people are thankful to the United States? Recently I met with a reporter at Applebee’s restaurant. As we started the interview I decided rather than tell her what I was doing, that I would just show her, and so I stood up as I had done many other times in the last month and asked for the diner’s attention. When the people heard that I had been in Iraq the restaurant grew quiet, but forty-five seconds later broke into applause at the brief message I had brought them. As you can imagine the ensuing interview was quite animated and for the next hour diners dropped by with words of appreciation for what I had said. In the course of our conversation something happened that should give us all hope and a little more insight into what is the truth about the situation in Iraq. I told the reporter, “The most interesting thing that I have found is that everywhere I go and speak, people come up and tell me that their cousin in Iraq (or whoever they might know in Iraq) is telling them the very same thing that I am saying.” Two minutes later a woman came over to our table and said, “You know my cousin in Iraq…” The interview appeared on the front page of the paper the next day. Take heart America. The truth will set you free.