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scubadiver
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 Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:14 pm Post subject: Disturbing New Statesman article: Iraq and GCSEs |
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http://www.newstatesman.com/200708060004
| Quote: | Few would now dispute the case for the US-led invasion of Iraq was built on misinformation and half-truths but nearly five years on from the dodgy dossier, the government’s propaganda offensive has opened on a new front: the classroom.
"After Iraq was expelled from Kuwait, the United Nations passed a cease-fire resolution. This resolution obligated Iraq to discontinue its nuclear weapons program. Iraq did not honour the cease-fire agreement by surrendering their weapons of mass destruction, and so resolution 678 was revived by the US government."
"Invasion was necessary to allow the opportunity to remove Saddam Hussein, an oppressive dictator, from power, and to bring democracy to Iraq."
This isn’t an extract from Blair’s diaries or a White House press release. It comes from Defence Dynamics, an online teaching resource of forty lesson plans produced by the Ministry of Defence, which it hopes will reach thousands of GCSE classes from this September. |
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marky 54
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| Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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| it makes you wonder how many other things have been phased in, in the same manner. our whole history could be a lie. |
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eogz
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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History is written by the winners. You only get their version of the events.
I was always taught that WW1 was started due to the assasination of Arch Duke Ferdinand.
It turns out it was more to do with oil and european political manouvering. I always wondered how any Arch Duke could be that popula, that his assasination would cause a war!
What a surprise! |
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levin
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:00 am Post subject: |
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| Like Henry Ford said, 'history is bunk'. Probably because he knew that his foundations would be tearing it up and sending it down the memory hole. |
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