[explodingspleen]

I think I speak for everyone here when I say: Iraq has marshes???

[Peelod]

Yes, don't you read National Geographic at the barber shop?

[freedom44]

Marshes in Iraq are thought to be the Biblical Garden of Eden.

[hinckley buzzard]

Not only marshes but a small minority known as guess what, "Marsh Arabs," with their own unique subculture. Saddam dried up the swamps out of sheer nastiness after Desert storm, maybe the marhs Arabs were among the ZShi'ite insurgents--not sure about that. But he dammed up the rivers and dried up the swamps and more or less wiped out their way of life.

[Cold Heart]

Iraq marshes were in the news quite a bit during the war. Like another poster said, you need to look at National Geographic or some other science magazines more.

[Keith in Iowa]

>>I think I speak for everyone here when I say: Iraq has marshes???

They did near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers before that sick SOB drained them.

And this shows something else, too - nature is resilient. Leave it alone, and it will find balance.

[xJones]

I think I speak for everyone here when I say: Iraq has marshes???

Yes, the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers run into each other somewhere in Iraq. There were marshes, with the ages-old marsh people culture. Saddam drained the marshes to get rid of them (they didn't like him.)

It was hilarious to listen to Col. David Hackworth in 2003 telling U.S. TV audiences that the marshes of Iraq would greatly slow down our military attacks into Iraq. The maroon didn't know that Saddam drained the marshes after the 1991 war.