From our visit to People’s Daily this week, we give you this account of 5 million children returning to school in Iraq. Parents are justifiably worried about the security situation, which delayed the opening of schools for a time, as did waiting for new text books that purged reference to the Saddam/Baathist regime to arrive from their printers in Jordan and the UAE.
Well, this will be a huge test for the new interim government, and its American allies. I fear that we will see schools routinely targeted by Saudi nihilists… I mean, “Insurgents”, and many (more) children will become casualties.
Still, anything reflective of “life going on” in Iraq should be construed as a good thing. Let’s just hope it does.
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What are the chances of CBS covering the reopening of schools in Iraq? ok, ok, just asking.
Talking Dog? Ha Ha Ha!!
I like mine with pork fried rice
And blond hooker
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I hope these kids’ dress code includes flak jackets. I know if I were a parent there I’d be manning a post around my kid’s school instead of a pipeline terminal or oil ministry.
Untill those children got blasted last week I would have thought the insurgents would have shown a school the same deference they do to mosques, but now I’m not so sure.