Much like the New York Times, the Sun Journal reports negative news about Iraq to the exclusion of almost anything else.

We don’t hear about the 100,000 criminals that Saddam released from jail just prior to the U.S. invasion. Obviously, crime rates are high, almost as high as in New York City.

We don’t hear about the universities and the 43 technical institutes, as well as hundred of elementary and secondary schools, which are now open, or the fact that teachers are now paid 12 to 25 times their former salaries.

We don’t hear that all 240 hospitals and 1,200 primary health clinics are open. We don’t hear or read about 22 million vaccine doses given to children and the drinking water supplies that have been restored.

We don’t hear about oil production having reached about 1.5 million barrels a day, getting closer to the prewar level of 3.5 million. We don’t hear about power generation that is close to prewar levels.

We don’t hear that the courts are in session. We don’t hear much about the new currency and the fact that an independent central bank opened two months after the war ended, unlike the three years it took after World War II in Germany.

Once again, I suggest that we subscribers deserve a more balanced approach to news reporting.

Marcel R. Morin, Lewiston

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