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11 April 2005, 08:34

Well, another redneck weighs in...helloooooo, the people in Iraq are highly educated and many of them speak English.

Why don’t you educate yourself in order to protect yourself with the truth....as my mother used to tell me, education is a gift to myself and truth is my protection and heavy artillery.

I also suggest you go read Riverbend’s blog. She is a young Iraqi woman and I bet her English puts yours to shame. You are apparently not very educated or sophisticated, and you probably have not traveled much, because you do not realize Iraq is full of some of the best doctors, professors, even best engineers in the world. Her blog is called "Baghdad Burning." If you can google, you can find it. Start from the beginning. You might learn something. And as my mother said - you don’t learn for me or for your teacher, you do it for YOURSELF, my friend.

That kid can probably not only read that sign but he probably wrote it, and he would probably score higher on an English (and history and geography) test than you.

Get yourself educated and stop embarrassing the rest of the Americans who know Iraq is full of intelligent people, and many of them are fluent in English.

Sharin Bowers
Southern California