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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: NickSE who wrote (90600)4/6/2003 10:49:04 AM
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In Bid to Shape a Postwar Iraq, U.S. Goes by the Schoolbook
washingtonpost.com

When the new Iraqi school year begins in five months, the Bush administration hopes to have in place wholesale revisions to textbooks that have taught a generation of Iraqis to be ready to die for Saddam Hussein.

The revisions are part of an ambitious U.S. effort to demilitarize a school curriculum that has touted Iraqi battlefield prowess and weaponry and demonized the United States as a fearsome enemy.....

.....In February, USAID announced a new, $60 million project to rebuild 1,000 Afghanistan schools, print 15 million textbooks and train 30,000 teachers.....
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