A challenge...show good things in Iraq.

[shawmutt]

I know this won't go far, because it's not extreme, but I have a challenge for you all. Post 1 (just ONE) video of a positive clip in Iraq. Show your support of the troops by not just focusing on every negative media sensationalist story. If you can't find a movie, find a short story. Here's mine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3sxop1-PkI&mode=related&search=

[Colzi]

Nice! Good idea btw Shaw!


Should send this into the TV stations- though they'd likely take one look n trash it. ( ass holes!)

[shawmutt]

Not a very good idea I guess. Post a video about soldiers teasing kids with water and there's 13 pages of posts. Post a video about soldiers playing with the kids and nobody says a word...

I'll give ya'll the benefit of the doubt and assume the title wasn't specific enough.

Guess ya'll aren't up for the challenge, you'd rather not cast doubt on your suppositions.

[Colzi]

Finding such clips is not an easy task!

Just let the thread flow u only posted this yesterday.

[jaba]

Not a very good idea I guess. Post a video about soldiers teasing kids with water and there's 13 pages of posts. Post a video about soldiers playing with the kids and nobody says a word...

One vid is easy to accept the other isn't...was waiting to see what came in Shawmutt. :wink:

[Colzi]

I'll be honest i aint searched but if i googled The UK US ARMY BEING NICE IN IRAQ - it'll say WTF U ON !

I'll start searching .

[Quackers]

The incident with the children throwing grenades at US soldiers comes to mind...

[jaba]

:shock:

[Colzi]

heartwarming.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtxfJYOxJtk

[asdf]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBTQcZ2gBTQ

[shawmutt]

When the facility opens in December, it is expected to provide sanitary drinking water for 3.2 million people
in Baghdad.
http://www.defendamerica.mil/articles/oct2006/a100406sj2.html

U.S. builds water treatment plant in Dibis, Iraq. 25,000 Iraqis gain access to fresh drinking water.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2005/20050929_2881.html

...helping to provide sustainable sources of drinking water for almost 500,000 people in Basra by the summer of 2006.
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/casestudies/files/asia/iraq-water.asp

In Basra, where more than half of the water treatment facilities were not working before the conflict water supplies are now reaching 90 percent of the city.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/04/20030428-3.html

For a little more than $38 billion, the United States and its contractors in Iraq have provided 4.6 million people with access to water. They have distributed seeds to Iraqi farmers, improving wheat harvests. With electricity-generating capacity now above prewar levels, they have given many Iraqis more daily hours of power. They have repaired more than 5,000 schools and vaccinated 4.6 million children against polio.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/11/AR2006111101076.html?nav=rss_email/components

I know its not fun to read about good things that happen, but its important to balance your knowledge of any subject.