From the
White House website's "Renewal in Iraq" section: selected excerpts from Voices of Freedom.
"Down Saddam the infidel and long live Bush the believer!" --Graffiti slogans on a Baghdad wall, Newsday, November 19, 2003
"Within two to six months, US soldiers should be positioned at their bases outside the cities and the [Iraqi] police would call on them if they need help."
-- Ibrahim Junbari, aid to Iraqi Governing Council President, Agence Free Press, October 21, 2003
"We used to sit and dream about people with satellite television. Now I have it so the kids can watch sports. Before I had a wreck of a car. Now I bought a nice used one. We fixed up the house, too. I guess I'm rich."
--Mohamed, a schoolteacher, whose salary rose from $30 a month to $300 under the Coalition Provisional Authority, The New York Times, November 11, 2003
"This city in southern Iraq [Nasiriyah] saw some of the fiercest fighting of the U.S.-led war to oust Saddam Hussein. Yet today the most visible uniform here is not military, but the bright blue overalls of new municipal workers on an urban beautification project. Life, residents say, is getting better."
-- Tyler Marshall and John Daniszewski, The Los Angeles Times, October 19, 2003
"Before the war, the main [race horse] track in Baghdad was run as a private club by a group of Saddam's cronies. Today, the crowd is much more eclectic, some Iraqis said, with Arabs in traditional robes, Shias in Iraqi dress and men dressed like American racetrack touts milling about. One group was missing. There were no American soldiers who had been providing security at the track until recent days. Now, Iraqi policemen were watching."
-- Micheal Hedges, The Houston Cronicle, October 5, 2003
"I hope women will have a good future in Iraq. They are tired, they are sad, they are trapped in the house . . . We have a lot of women who are educated, active, who quit college because society was so repressive. Now they are coming back."
-- Munther Gorbas Hussein, 45, who attended a meeting of the League of Iraqi Women, a women’s rights group, with his wife, The Miami Herald, October 19, 2003
And finally: a little something about oil exports"We are exporting 1 million barrels [of oil] a day, and it will be double that by the end of the second quarter of next year. It will be 6 million barrels a day by the end of the decade. We have the human resources in Iraq to achieve that, and the international investment will also be there."
-- Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum, Iraqi oil minister, The Houston Chronicle, October 19, 2003
Well not quite. Twenty-one months later, at the time production was halted briefly in mid July 2005 by a workers' strike, Iraq was exporting 1.2 million barrels a day (
Reuters).
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