10.08.07
Debunking Lies: The Polls v. Real Numbers
If you ask any liberal, liberal organization or media outlet, they will tell you that the war is lost. That Americans are fed up with the war in Iraq and the War on Terror. They will tell you that the Military is exhausted. They will tell you all sorts of negative facts and figures that prove that most Americans want en immediate end to the war and want all of our troops to come home no later than noon today.
With this sort of inundation of bad and worse news, you could only assume that any sort of Patriotism or American Pride is long gone and that people are just sitting at home with their heads in their hands waiting for a heroic congress to swoop in a save the day. After all, the war is lost and the Military forces are exhausted and demoralized. What have we got left to do other than to throw our hands up in the air and just give up, right?
Oh, you couldn’t be more wrong.
At a time when congress and the media is telling us that the American majority want out, the Marine Corps is actually exceeding their recruitment goals for the year. But the mainstream media isn’t telling that story, is it? Yet here it is, in black and white compliments of Military.com. According to the article, the Marines set a goal of 184,000 Marines for 2007 and ended up with 186,000. They signed up 35,603 (109% over goal) new recruits and reenlisted 7,668 first term Marines and 10,027 who were on their second or more reenlistment. If you ask my opinion, that is a whole lot of fine men and women volunteering to join or reenlist in the Marines considering almost certain combat duty in Iraq. Many more than I would have guessed given the dismal outlook on American attitude right now.
What’s even better is that the Marines are on track to see 202,000 Marines come 2011 which will give them sufficient enough numbers to give everybody two-months off for every month deployed. That’s good news.
But the good news just keeps on coming. Marines aside, all active duty components met or exceeded their recruitment goals for 2007. The Navy recruited 33,543 (100%), Army recruited 71,987 (102%), Air Force recruited 25,417 (100%). In fact, the only component that really missed its mark was the Air Guard, but they still brought in 93% of the goal. In fact, all tallied up between active and reserve, the US Military brought 288,678 new recruits into service in 2007. And for all those nay sayers out there, according to the DOD the Armed Forces increased their total numbers since the end of FY06 by 4,298 people which means that new recruiting and reenlistment are still exceeding separations.
So with all of this in mind, how can we really believe that things are as bad as we are being told they are? After all, if congress and the media is indeed accurately representing the American majority, shouldn’t we be seeing a decline in voluntary enlistments and reenlistments? Shouldn’t our young men and women be out protesting and burning their draft cards instead of joining up? I mean, it might just be me, but doesn’t this go right in the face of so-called “public opinion?” I guess that’s why these numbers aren’t making headlines and I had to dig through Military and DOD sites to get them. Personally, I would like congress or any of the liberal nutballs out there to ask the 289,000 new recruits just what they think about our “defeat.”
Could it be that maybe, just maybe things aren’t as bad as the liberals and their little minions and cover organizations are telling us? It really makes you stop and think, doesn’t it? Unless of course you’re a liberal doomsayer, in which case you’re probably just working on figuring out how the Military is using mind control to recruit unwilling new soldiers into signing their name.
mpinkeyes said,
October 8, 2007 at 8:56 am
Thanks for those numbers. I hear on the news every so often that the military isn’t reaching their recrutement goals, then when the reports come out I hear Rush mention it, but nobody else. It would hurt their blame America agenda.
Considering we keep hearing about how our reputation is being hurt worldwide and Americans aren’t proud, these numbers proove just the opposite, Americans are still willing to volunteer their service to the country. Because they believe in America.
micky2 said,
October 8, 2007 at 10:30 am
Hey, I live 5 miles from Kaneohe Marine Air base in Hawaii. And these guys are always telling me first hand what its like in Iraq and how the media only gets it 20 % of the time.
But of course when I debate moonbats they borderline tell me the troops are lying.
The Iraqia dont hate us, not the majority. And the succeses far outweigh the set backs.
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 prewar 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 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 prewar telephone services and over two-thirds of the potable 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 prewar 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.
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 more than 170 newspapers.
You can buy satellite dishes on what seems like every street corner.
Foreign journalists (and everyone else) are free to come and go.
A nation that had not one single element — legislative, judicial or executive — of a representative government now does.
In Baghdad alone residents have selected 88 advisory councils. Baghdad’s first democratic transfer of power in 35 years happened when the city council elected its new chairman.
Today in Iraq chambers of commerce, business, school and professional organizations are electing their leaders all over the country.
25 ministers, selected by the most representative governing body in Iraq’s history, run the day-to-day business of government.
The Iraqi government regularly participates in international events. Since July the Iraqi government has been represented in over two dozen international meetings, including those of the UN General Assembly, the Arab League, the World Bank and IMF and, today, the Islamic Conference Summit. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs today announced that it is reopening over 30 Iraqi embassies around the world.
Shiva religious festivals that were all but banned, aren’t anymore.
For the first time in 35 years, in Karbala thousands of Shiites celebrate the pilgrimage of the 12th Imam.
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 Queasy 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.
Children aren’t imprisoned or murdered when their parents disagree with the government.
Political opponents aren’t imprisoned, tortured, executed, maimed, or forced to watch their families die for disagreeing with Saddam.
Millions of long-suffering Iraqis no longer live in perpetual terror.
Saudis will hold municipal elections.
Qatar is reforming education to give more choices to parents.
Jordan is accelerating market economic reforms.
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded for the first time to an Iranian
- A Muslim woman who speaks out with courage for human rights, for democracy and for peace.
Saddam is gone.
Iraq is free.
Terrorists are being drawn to an arena in which our military can kill or capture them
Sovereignty is restored to Iraq”
THERE ! Chew on that moonbats
arclightzero said,
October 8, 2007 at 10:43 am
“when I debate moonbats they borderline tell me the troops are lying.”
How could anybody accuse these guys of lying? Do they think that the troops like risking their lives and getting shot at/blown up all the time? So much so that they would lie so they get to go back? And even if they were lying to make things sound better, why then would they continue to reenlist and enlist? The moonbats have their heads too far up their asses to know what’s right or wrong any more.
Like Pinkeyes says, Americans continue to fight, to enlist, to reenlist and to do their duty because they believe in what they are doing. Screw the media and screw congress. They are no longer in touch with reality anyway.
micky2 said,
October 8, 2007 at 10:54 am
The only reason moonbats say that our guys and gals are lying is because its the line of defense. At that point all is lost because everthing you present is a so called fabrication, even documents. Which reminds me , the list above should be credited to this guy and his link
http://sangjmoon.blogspot.com/2006/12/list-of-iraq-successes.html
micky2 said,
October 8, 2007 at 10:59 am
brainfart correction.
“because its the LAST line of defense”
This first accusation of our boys lying in a debate came from Jro at the Seminal. He didnt come right out and say it that way. He claimed the Wash. Post and Huff. Post were better sources, I went of the deep end and started searching miltary blogs so I could shut him down and actually ended up at this one somehow.
micky2 said,
October 8, 2007 at 11:00 am
It’s been love ever since.
in2thefray said,
October 8, 2007 at 12:59 pm
ALZ C’mon the liberals have the answer. The Bush tax cuts have affected the economy so monstrously the “poor” people have to reluctantly enlist to feed their families and provide health care.
arclightzero said,
October 8, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Ah! silly me, ya know, I must be drinking the mind control kool aide. I’ll try to make more sense in the future. After all, what you’re saying is the only reasonable explanation for increase military enlistment.
And I’m sure Haliburton and Blackwater have their dirty fingers in it too.
micky2 said,
October 8, 2007 at 3:02 pm
yeah right, and its only a coincidence that the majority of those poor folks that enlisted are conservatives ( 80%)