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Letter: Iraq situation not as grim as advertised

Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2006 | 7:09 a.m.

Right now in Iraq, Sunnis, Shiites and even some Christians are training in the newly formed Iraqi military, side by side, learning how to protect their country.

According to commentator Glenn Beck, since the toppling of Saddam Hussein, 98 percent of all Iraqi children have been vaccinated; 4,500 schools have been built or rebuilt and furnished with 8 million books; 33,000 new businesses have been started; newspapers and television shows flourish throughout Iraq in a freedom of the press they have never known; one out of four members of parliament is a woman.

Most astonishing of all, it took The Washington Post, no friend to the administration, to recently ask the ones with the most at stake in Iraq, our brave soldiers, how they feel about their mission. A vast majority of them said they do not want to leave until they feel the country has been secured.

But none of this really matters to the "if it bleeds, it leads" mainstream media.

Ken Lucas, Las Vegas

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