Did you know that 47 coun­tries have re-established their embassies in Iraq?

Did you know that the Iraqi gov­ern­ment employs 1.2 mil­lion Iraqi people?

Did you know that 3100 schools have been ren­o­vated, 364 schools are under reha­bil­i­ta­tion, 263 schools are now under con­struc­tion and 38 new schools have been built in Iraq?

Did you know that Iraq’s higher edu­ca­tional struc­ture con­sists of 20 Uni­ver­si­ties, 46 Insti­tutes or col­leges and 4 research centers?

Did you know that 25 Iraq stu­dents departed for the United States in Jan­u­ary 2004 for the re-established Ful­bright program?

Did you know that the Iraqi Navy is oper­a­tional? They have 5– 100-foot patrol craft, 34 smaller ves­sels and a navel infantry regiment.

Did you know that Iraq’s Air Force con­sists of three oper­a­tion squadrons, 9 recon­nais­sance and 3 US C-130 trans­port air­craft which oper­ate day and night, and will soon add 16 UH-1 heli­copters and 4 bell jet rangers?

Did you know that Iraq has a counter-terrorist unit and a Com­mando Battalion?

Did you know that the Iraqi Police Ser­vice has over 55,000 fully trained and equipped police officers?

Did you know that there are 5 Police Acad­e­mies in Iraq that pro­duce over 3500 new offi­cers each 8 weeks?

Did you know there are more than 1100 build­ing projects going on in Iraq? They include 364 schools, 67 pub­lic clin­ics, 15 hos­pi­tals, 83 rail­road sta­tions, 22 oil facil­i­ties, 93 water facil­i­ties and 69 elec­tri­cal facilities.

Did you know that 96% of Iraqi chil­dren under the age of 5 have received the first 2 series of polio vaccinations?

Did you know that 4.3 mil­lion Iraqi chil­dren were enrolled in pri­mary school by mid October?

Did you know that there are 1,192,000 cell phone sub­scribers in Iraq and phone use has gone up 158%?

Did you know that Iraq has an inde­pen­dent media that con­sist of 75 radio sta­tions, 180 news­pa­pers and 10 tele­vi­sion stations?

Did you know that the Bagh­dad Stock Exchange opened in June of 2004?

Did you know that 2 can­di­dates in the Iraqi pres­i­den­tial elec­tion had a recent tele­vised debate recently?

OF COURSE, WE DIDN’T KNOW!

WHY DIDN’T WE KNOW? OUR MEDIA WOULDN’T TELL US!

Instead of shout­ing these accom­plish­ments from every rooftop, they would rather show killings and bombs.