In this 3 minute clip of McMaster interview with Charlie
Rose (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgY_vjyFCxk&feature=youtu.be)
McMasters made the
following claim: We underestimated the
trauma the Iraqis lived in under Saddam, the poor social services, the poor
healthcare, and the education! And that
it was these, and the lack of education of the younger generation that led to
them being influenced by Zarqawi.
Seriously?!
According to UNESCO, that prior
to the first Gulf War
in 1991 Iraq had one of the best educational performances in the region.
Primary school Gross Enrollment Rate was 100% and literacy levels were high.
Since that time education has suffered as a result of American-led domination,
sanctions, and instability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Iraq
Its healthcare was enviable. “Iraq had
developed a centralized free healthcare system in the 1970s using a hospital
based, capital-intensive model of curative care. The country
depended on large-scale imports of medicines, medical equipment and even
nurses, paid for with oil export income, according to a “Watching Brief” report
issued jointly by the United Nations
Children’s Fund and the World Health
Organization in July 2003. Unlike other poorer countries, which
focused on mass health care using primary care practitioners, Iraq developed a
Westernized system of sophisticated hospitals with advanced medical procedures,
provided by specialist physicians. The UNICEF/WHO report noted that prior to
1990, 97 percent of the urban dwellers and 71 percent of the rural population
had access to free primary health care; just 2 percent of hospital beds were
privately managed.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Iraq
Seems “alternate facts’ rules
supreme!
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