Here’s a good article about the truth in Iraq, by Helle Dale, who writes for the Heritage Foundation, called Biased coverage in Iraq.
…And the fact is that for all the unrelenting drumbeat of bad news, there is much good to be told as well, only you don’t hear it much. Agreement has so far been reached with Iraq’s Russian and European debtors to forgive $33 billion of Iraq’s debt, about a quarter of the total. Some 45,000 Iraqi police and 48,000 Iraqi army and National Guard troops have now been trained. $5 billion in U.S. aid alone has been disbursed and oil revenue, which flows into Iraqi accounts via an U.S. government trust reached $1.9 billion in October.
A weekly update of reconstruction projects in Iraq can be located on the website of the U.S. Agency for International Development, http://www.usaid.gov/Iraq. Much of this good work you will never find reported, precisely because no news is good news for much of the U.S. media. And the foreign media is even worse.
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Or how about the constantly cited figure of 100,000 Iraqis killed by Americans since the war began, a statistic thrown about with total and irresponsible abandon by war opponents. That number, which should be disputed at every turn by those who care about the truth of what is going on in Iraq, came from a controversial study by the British journal of medicine The Lancet.
It is five to six times higher than the highest estimates from other sources of all Iraqi deaths, either military or civilian. The Lancet study relied on reporting of deaths self-reported by 998 families from clusters of 33 households throughout Iraq, a very limited sample from which to generalize.
As a recent article in the Financial Times reported on Nov. 19, even the Lancet study’s authors are now having second thoughts. Iraq’s Health Ministry estimates by comparison that all told, 3,853 Iraqis have been killed and 15,517 wounded.
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