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A dream of restoring Iraq's great marshes: Wetlands destroyed by Hussein could thrive again
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| 4/18/2003
| Glen Martin
Posted on 04/18/2003 2:44:47 PM PDT by Utah Girl
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:42:18 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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There could be an unexpected beneficiary of the war in Iraq: the environment.
More specifically, the late, great Mesopotamian marshes -- a decade ago, the largest wetland by far in the Middle East, and a site considered by many religious scholars as the inspiration for the Garden of Eden in the Bible and Koran.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ancienthistory; environment; euphrates; gardenofeden; interimauthority; iraqifreedom; madan; marsh; marsharabs; oldtestament; pictures; postwariraq; saddamhussein; tigris; wetlands
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To: crz
"They can pay for the whole project too..since it'll be their utopia."
They never pay... we pay!!
To: fuzzthatwuz
If the American people only knew how much they dole out for these geeks and their la-la lands, they would die from heart failure. What is it now? 200 some million acres? And the original Park system was about 70 million acres in 1965? So thanks to the Socialists like LBJ and the cave in to these creeps by big timber and the rest, we little guys in this industry are no longer anything but trash...much like the black sharecropper.
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crz
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