Thought you might enjoy some observations from a sane Canadian.
MARK STEYN
HERE are 10 facts about Iraq today:
1) Saddam Hussein is in jail, his sons are in ‘paradise’, and of the 52 faces on the Pentagon’s deck of cards, all but nine are now in one or other of those locations.
2) The coalition casualties in February were the lowest since the war began.
3) Attacks on the Iraqi oil pipelines have fallen by 75% since last autumn, and crude oil production in British-controlled southern Iraq is at 127% of the target set immediately after the war.
4) The pre-war potable water supply - 12.9 million litres - has been doubled.
5) The historic marshlands of southern Iraq, environmentally devastated by Saddam, are being restored, and tens of thousands of marsh Arabs have returned to their ancient homeland.
6) Public healthcare funding in Iraq is more than 25 times higher than it was a year ago and child immunisation rates have improved by 25%.
7) Iraq’s only international port has been modernised and de-silted so that it is now able to take large ships without waiting for the tide, and commercial aircraft departures are 100 times higher than pre-war figures.
8) School attendance in Iraq is 10% higher than a year ago.
9) Despite Saddam emptying his prisons of cutpurses and other ne’er-do-wells just before the war, crime in Basra has fallen by 70%.
10) The interim Iraqi constitution is the most liberal in the Arab world.
The only pulling out that needs to occur is your head from your ***. We've always had to put up with insignificant ankle biters and bedwetters who can't handle their position in the world so you'll have to try harder.
