Posted on 08/24/2005 5:35:14 PM PDT by REactor
And considered by still others NOT to be the INSPIRATION for the biblical Garden of Eden, but rather the faded and withered remnants of the literal Garden itself.
"Water of Life" in Scots Gaelic is "Uisge Beatha", pronounced "OOSH-kah Bay-ah" -- rendered in English "whisky."
The guys over there are doing good things and see first-hand that there are many successes in Iraq.
Some enterprising dot-com group should have a "good news from the battlefield" website that is factual, upbeat, and focuses on human interest. If there is a site like that, please post it since the MSM is only anti-war, anti-task, anti-Bush, and anti-success.
Is this any way to run a quagmire?
Southern Mesopotamia, where the Tigris and the Euphrates flowed, first separately, then united, towards the Persian Gulf, was more beguiling in history than in fact. Here were Babylon and Nineveh, here Sennacherib had fought his battles, here indeed, some said, had been the Garden of Eden at the start of the world. But it was a fearful country now. ... In the summer it was indescribably hot, in the winter unbearably cold. In the dry season everything was baked like leather, in the wet season 10,000 square miles were flooded, the waters gradually oozing away to leave malodorous wastes of marsh. Fleas, sand-flies and mosquitoes tormented the place, and its inhabitants lived lives of ignorant poverty, enlivened only by sporadic excitements of crime or brigandage, the illusions of religion and the consolations of sex.Is this the land of dear old Adam (one British soldier wondered),
And beautiful Mother Eve?
If so dear reader small blame to them
For sinning and having to leave..
-- James (Jan) Morris, Farewell the Trumpets.
What is the Liberal Media going to do when they realize Iraq has been totally rebuilt and better than anytime in the past 30 years? They are going to say it was a Miracle and happened overnight with no US military involvement at all.
I agree. Turn that sucker off!!! We can't have the press getting upset.
"Some enterprising dot com group should have a "good news from the battlefield" website that is factual, upbeat, and focuses on human interest".
There already is one. It's called "The Last Two weeks of Good News from Iraq" (Afghanistan)available from www.opinionjournal.com . A free e-mail service provided by the Wall Street Journal on a daily basis--On The Editorial Page and Best of the Web are sent every day.
"The Last Two Weeks..." is written by Arthur Chrenkoff, an Australian and is updated every two weeks. There are pages and pages and pages of what is actually going on in Iraq and Afghanistan--from the school and hospital construction, sewage plant construction, water purification plants, investments by various countries in oil, investment by individuals and corporations, assistance for children and women, etc--it's truly a staggering compilation which takes a long time to read. It is truly phenomenal--but of course you won't read it anywhere else. I believe Chrenkoff has his own blog so you may find it there too. It will knock those socks off!
I sent one of the Afghanistan reports to my husband's cousin at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan--he was thrilled to read that their efforts were being truthfully reported somewhere and in turn sent it to everyone on his address list to let them know "what we are doing here".
The MSM and the Dems are only interested in lies and distortions and who can trash our President the most--the truth is totally alien to them.
Mismanagement? Mismanagement?
He flipping deliberately set out to destroy the marsh to punish the people that live there and they dare call it mismanagement?
I think the quagmires are being revived, too.
bttt
Dude...You forgot to add a [/sarcasm on] tag.
I'm a bit new, I'll get there.
Mismanagement? Hardly. It was a deliberate attempt at genocide on the people who lived there.
Shhhhhhhh - word might get out about all the good we're doing . . . .
There is a great blog that has "Good news from Iraq Part (whatever)" about every two weeks. It may not be exactly what you're looking for, but it's REALLY good!
http://chrenkoff.blogspot.com
The latest post, containing good news from Iraq, can be found at:
http://chrenkoff.blogspot.com/2005/08/good-news-from-iraq-part-33.html
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