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Thread #69095   Message #1172903
Posted By: Metchosin
27-Apr-04 - 11:33 PM
Thread Name: Hide The Dead Soldiers!
Subject: RE: Hide The Dead Soldiers!
"What makes you think Iraq will be able to maintain a democracy? They do not have the experience or the education."

Dianavan, I beg to differ with you, Iraq may not have had experience with democracy, as we like to believe it should be, but the Iraqi people were hardly without education and training,

"At the beginning of the 1980s Iraq had one of the best education systems in the Arab world. Gross Enrollment Rate for primary schooling was around 100%. The Higher Education, especially the scientific and technological institutions were of international standard, staffed by high quality personnel. " UN information