Here is gunny’s quote (
Iraqis are of the most educated people in the Middle East.)Note the underlined words.
Now here is your quote. (So where is the proof Iraq
is better educated.) I left out your meaningless references to the Taliban and beheading, as they have no bearing on what were discussing.
Do you see the difference in the term (
Iraqis are of-Gunny) and (
Iraq is better- you)?
As for as the education in the Middle East, you think of literacy, not Universities and Colleges. I imagine that before the war, the Iraq’s were more than likely in the middle of the pack.
According to this article, sometime between 1969 and1976, he instituted a nation-wide literacy project, non-attendance punishable by three years in jail. Man that’s an incentive to learn to read. :shock:
<He instituted a nation-wide literacy project, non-attendance punishable by three years in jail. Hundreds of thousands of illiterate Iraqi men, women and children learned to read. >
CBC News In Depth: Iraq