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  • In Bid to Shape a Postwar Iraq, U.S. Goes by the Schoolbook

    04/05/2003 10:07:41 PM PST · by Diddley · 6 replies · 147+ views
    Washington Posst ^ | Apr 6, 2003 | David B. Ottaway and Joe Stephens
    <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>