Textbooks will give Iraqi children incomplete version of the past

[G_j]

A new history of Iraq

Hurriedly produced textbooks will give Iraqi children an incomplete version of their past, says Christina Asquith

Tuesday November 25, 2003
The Guardian

Sitting in the teachers' lounge in Al Huda high school in the wealthy Al Jadriya district of Baghdad, history teacher Abstam Jassom says she will tell her students: "Americans are occupiers. They only want our oil."
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http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,5500,1092069,00.html

[MadHound]

1. Well, I suppose it is only fair

After all, American schoolbooks give our children an incomplete version of the past.

[G_j]

3. that's certainly true

as they say, history is written by the winners.

[PunkinPi]

2. I presume the same thing will happen in America from opposite perspective

history has always been revised, though in this case, the history teacher is right on the money.

[Loonman]

4. So do Japanese and German textbooks

Nothing new.