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President Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1:

• The first battalion of the new Iraqi Army has graduated and is on active duty.
• Over 60,000 Iraqis now provide security to their fellow citizens.
• Nearly all of Iraq's 400 courts are functioning.
• The Iraqi judiciary is fully independent.
• On Monday, October 6 power generation hit 4,518 megawatts-exceeding the pre-war average.
• All 22 universities and 43 technical institutes and colleges are open, as are nearly all primary and secondary schools.
• By October 1, Coalition forces had rehab-ed over 1,500 schools - 500 more than scheduled.
• Teachers earn from 12 to 25 times their former salaries.
• All 240 hospitals and more than 1200 clinics are open.
• Doctor’s  salaries are at least eight times what they were under now captured Saddam.
• Pharmaceutical distribution has gone from essentially nothing to 700 tons in May to a current total of 12,000 tons.
• The Coalition has helped administer over 22 million vaccination doses to Iraq's children.
• A Coalition program has cleared over 14,000 kilometers of Iraq's 27,000 kilometers of weed-choked canals which now irrigate tens of thousands of farms.
 
• This project has created jobs for more than 100,000 Iraqi men and women.
• We have restored over three-quarters of pre-war telephone services and over two-thirds of the water production.
• There are 4,900 full-service telephone connections.
 
• We expect 50,000 by year-end.
• The wheels of commerce are turning. From bicycles to satellite dishes to cars and trucks, businesses are coming to life in all major cities and towns.
• 95 percent of all pre-war bank customers have service, and first-time customers are opening accounts daily.
• Iraqi banks are making loans to finance businesses.
• The central bank is fully independent.
• Iraq has one of the world’s most growth-oriented investment and banking laws.
• Iraq has a single, unified currency for the first time in 15 years.
• Satellite TV dishes are legal enabling something besides Moslem propaganda to be piped into homes of everyday Iraqis.
• Foreign journalists aren't on 10-day visas paying mandatory and extortionate fees to the Ministry of Information for  minders  and other government spies.
• There is no Ministry of Information.
• There are now more than 170 newspapers.
• Today in Iraqi chambers of commerce, business, school and professional organizations are electing their leaders all over the country.
• Twenty-five ministers, selected by the most representative governing body in Iraq's history, run the day-to-day business of government.
• The Coalition has completed over 13,000 reconstruction projects, large and small, as part of a strategic plan for the reconstruction of Iraq.
• Uday and Quesay, Sadam’s demon-possessed sons are dead - and no longer feeding innocent Iraqis to the zoo lions, raping the young daughters of local leaders to force cooperation, torturing Iraq's soccer players for losing games, or murdering critics.
• Saddam is gone, is jailed, and is being forced by the CIA to watch captured video tapes of people he tortured.
• Iraq is free.

President Bush has not faltered or failed. Yet, little or none of this information has been published by the Press corps that prides itself on bring you all the news that's important. Iraq under US lead control has come further in six months than Germany did in seven years or Japan did in nine years following WWII.   Military deaths from fanatic Nazis and Japanese numbered in the thousands and continued for over three years after WWII victory was declared.

Don’t be brainwashed by our Press!

Trumpet Editor