Here’s some good news out of Iraq: Nearly half of the wetlands, drained by Saddam Hussein to punish the “Marsh Arabs,” has been restored. The project was managed by the U.N. and funded by Japan and Italy.
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Here’s some good news out of Iraq: Nearly half of the wetlands, drained by Saddam Hussein to punish the “Marsh Arabs,” has been restored. The project was managed by the U.N. and funded by Japan and Italy.
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Now that’s awesome. *Happy dance*
You mean the Shi’ites, not the Kurds.
Huh. You’re right, the article clearly says Shiites, but it was my memory that it was done to punish the Kurds. I don’t have time to figure it out now, since I’m leaded out the door, so I’ve changed it to read “Marsh Arabs,” which is that the group living there is known as. Thanks for that, Lowell.
The Kurds live in the far north of the country, hundreds of miles from the southern marshes. Also, the Kurds aren’t Arabs, so obviously they can’t be “Marsh Arabs.” The marshes were drained to punish the Shi’ites after the first Gulf War and subsequent Shi’a uprising. Nothing whatsoever to do with the Kurds.
A project in Iraq not managed by the Pentagon or Halliburton, nor funded by the U.S. taxpayer, is successful.
Huh. Shakes one’s faith (if one’s faith is in no-bid government outsourcing to private companies, that is).
It’s a little known fact that the main reason the US invaded Iraq in 2003 wasn’t WMDs or even to install a democratic govenment. We went to restore the wetlands.