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starroute

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6. Do you have statistics to back that up or are you pulling it out of your ass?

Reply to GummyBearz (Reply #4)

Wed Feb 4, 2015, 02:49 PM

Feb 2015

The CIA World Factbook gives the Iraqi literacy rate for males as 86% and estimates 71% for females.

For Syria, the equivalent figures are 90% and 78%.

Not as high as most Western nations, but hardly "uneducated masses."

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