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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"JustLooking" |
| Date: |
07 Sep 2006 08:25:14 PM |
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Scholastic my a s s |
Read it all at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-boehlert/scholastic-and-abc-team-u_b_28879.html
As Media Matters for America first reported, the ABC and Scholastic-produced
"Discussion Guide for the Classroom" that provides background information to
students about 9/11 and the Middle East, is "rife with conservative
misinformation." For instance, there's this reference to the invasion of
Iraq:
The dictatorial government of Saddam Hussein was overthrown in 2003,
following an invasion led by the United States.The U.S. government believed
that Hussein had been developing weapons of mass destruction that he planned
to use against American and other targets.
That's it, period. No mention of the glaringly obvious point that no WMD's
were ever found in Iraq and that the Bush administration entire rationale
for war turned out to be a fallacy. Yet this slick classroom guide is
supposed to help 16, 17, and 18-year-olds better understand American
history?
And there's this:
Bush has led the United States into Afghanistan and Iraq and reorganized
the national government in an attempt to combat terrorist activity.
The classroom guide for "The Path to 9/11" clearly ties the attacks of Sept.
11, the Taliban and Iraq all together. In fact, the Scholastic text states
at the very beginning:
The information below will help you become familiar with the people,
places, and organizations that played a role in the events of 9/11 and those
that led up to that tragic day.
But what does Iraq have to do with the events "that led up to that tragic
day"? The answer, of course, is nothing. But that doesn't stop Scholastics
from informing students:
Following are short descriptions of some of the countries [i.e. Iraq] and
groups that were involved in some way with the terrorist attacks. [Emphasis
added.]
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