In Rewriting Its History, Iraq Treads Cautiously
Looking back at Iraq and all the mess that we went through, its very hard to take sides or be objective and academic about this because in every level you can have 2 opposing views that make sense.
Source NYtimes:
Iraq’s cultural history stretches back thousands of years, and its land comprises much of ancient Mesopotamia. But its historical memory has been clouded by its upheavals.
“They removed any mention of the Saddam era in the history books, but the result has been that these books became worse than before,” said Mohammed Kamil, the chairman of the history department at Mustansiriya University in Baghdad.
Even at the college level, Mr. Kamil said, Mr. Hussein or the Baath Party is not part of history.
While the 20th-century Iraqi history that was taught under Mr. Hussein may have been mere propaganda — the dictator’s picture adorned every book — some teachers say that the ancient history taught before was much deeper than that taught under the new curriculum.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/world/middleeast/30iraq.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
