Good news in Iraq now out-weights the bad. :)

[GGaia]

These days the world hears only the news stories from Iraq regarding citizens and servicemen of the U.S. and our Allies being attacked, of assassinations, and of insurgents attempting to destroy oil pipelines. Many news organizations have said that they would like to get the good news from Iraq out to the public but that the stories of explosions, deaths and the current problems get in the way of telling the stories about the good that is happening.

Here is an excerpt from “FAIR, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (112 W. 27th Street, New York, NY 10001):

“ABC 's Baghdad correspondent Neal Karlinsky told Nightline (10/15/03) that "there's a lot of good news stories here that we are trying to get out. And, quite frankly, news events sometimes get in the way of that. It's hard to work on a feature story about life in Baghdad getting back to normal when there is suddenly a car bombing that kills a half dozen people nearby." Karlinsky seems to be complaining that breaking news keeps getting in the way of reporting the news. CNN 's Bill Hemmer (10/14/03) wondered if life in Iraq could "also be better than what's being reported also. If you consider that these reporters, many of them tell us they want to go cover the new school opening, but they can't because there's another bombing or shooting and that prevents them from sending that story?"”

We want to provide a venue for the stories about the good that is happening in Iraq. We are not trying to sugar coat what is happening or even hide the fact that there are still problems in Iraq. We feel that there are already plenty of options open to people in regards to getting the stories of the problems in Iraq. That the United States and the World could use a site that tells the good news of what the U.S. and our Allies are doing in Iraq and throughout the Arab world. A site that reminds people that most Iraqis are not fighting us; that most Iraqis are working to rebuild their country and to make it a better place.

Our website is interested in showing the good being done in Iraq because of the sacrifice of the men and women of the Armed Forces of the U.S. and our Allies. The sacrifice that is giving the Iraqi people the chance to live in a country that is freer than anything they ever dreamed possible; a freedom that many of the young people who grew up under Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship have never known.

http://goodnewsiraq.com/index2.htm