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Iraq marshes(Biblical Eden) can be partially restored
Financial Times(subscription) ^

Posted on 02/21/2005 7:04:50 AM PST by Alex Marko

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1 posted on 02/21/2005 7:04:51 AM PST by Alex Marko
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If Iraq was once a part of the Garden of Eden, then the place has sure gone to hell in a handbasket....


2 posted on 02/21/2005 7:06:55 AM PST by Lurking2Long
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You would think this action alone would make Saddam a villain and Bush a hero to the environmental nuts...
3 posted on 02/21/2005 7:14:45 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
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To: Alex Marko

I hope this is possible.


4 posted on 02/21/2005 7:14:46 AM PST by JesseJane (Don't Fear the FReeper!)
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Where are the "Greenies"? How did they allow this to happen? They need to get in there and fix the problem!! I am sure the "insurgents" will quake in their boots when the "Greenies" appear.


5 posted on 02/21/2005 7:16:30 AM PST by Virginia Queen (Virginia Queen)
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To: 2banana

environmental nuts = lefty democrats or greens, thus oppose Bush for the sake of it and support all that are opposed by Bush.


6 posted on 02/21/2005 7:17:23 AM PST by William of Orange (Jerome Corsi: "Mullah Ali'Gore-ah is very proud of his new Bin Laden beard.")
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To: Alex Marko
Closed for repairs.

7 posted on 02/21/2005 7:20:28 AM PST by evets (God bless president George W. Bush)
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Bush, evil anti-environment CONSERVATIVE, saves the marshes. I wonder if you'll find this article on DU?


8 posted on 02/21/2005 7:24:09 AM PST by marsh_of_mists
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Maybe we could plant a new tree of knowledge of good and evil.


9 posted on 02/21/2005 7:24:22 AM PST by shekkian
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> Maybe we could plant a new tree of knowledge of good and evil.


Oooh! Ooooh!! Can we then berate anyone who learns from it?


10 posted on 02/21/2005 7:27:19 AM PST by orionblamblam
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>considered by some to have been the Biblical location of the Garden of Eden

I have a question about this that has always bugged me. For the sake of arguement, assume that the whole Eden/Noah/Moses/etc. storyline is Absolute Fact. Well... if Noah floated around for, what, a year or more on a flooded Earth, what are the chances that he would land anywhere near where he started off? Could not Eden just as easily have been Newark?


11 posted on 02/21/2005 7:29:36 AM PST by orionblamblam
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A restored marshland would be one of the seven wonders of the modern world. Ecotourists would love it, and it could be a model for similar projects the world over.

I wonder how the world's various Green Parties would feel about the liberation of Iraq if this happened?


12 posted on 02/21/2005 7:32:08 AM PST by Piranha
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Newark? You mean right off the Garden State Parkway? I see where you're going with this.
13 posted on 02/21/2005 7:33:38 AM PST by Piranha
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To: 2banana
You would think this action alone would make Saddam a villain and Bush a hero to the environmental nuts...

That would presume that the environmental nuts actually CARED about the environment.

They don't let facts don't get in their way. It would be too confusing for their drug addled, extreme leftist brains.

14 posted on 02/21/2005 7:34:12 AM PST by ohioWfan (W.........STILL the President!!)
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And that would explain to those of us outside of New Jersey, why in the world it is called the GARDEN State.

You guys are ON to something here..........

15 posted on 02/21/2005 7:36:14 AM PST by ohioWfan (W.........STILL the President!!)
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To: Darkchylde

ping


16 posted on 02/21/2005 7:36:35 AM PST by DJ MacWoW ("Are you cops? FBI" bad guy, "I'm currently unemployed" Tony Almeida of 24)
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To: Lurking2Long
If Iraq was once a part of the Garden of Eden, then the place has sure gone to hell in a handbasket....

In the summer here, we say that it's sort of like Hell must be...barren, dusty and hot as....well, Hell.

17 posted on 02/21/2005 7:37:03 AM PST by Allegra ("They Just Love to Walk in the Middle of the Road!")
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To: Lurking2Long

The area from The mouth of the Euphrates to Damascus to the Jordan River valley used to be called the fertile crescent until the poor farming practices of the natives combined with the resurgence of Arab pastoral practices after the Islamic conquests deforested the land, drying it up and making it into a desert. If you have ever seen photos of Israel when it was part of the Ottoman Empire before extensive Jewish immigration you will see how much of a craphole the place was. Now after years of reforestation and modern farming practices, that area is in much better shape.


18 posted on 02/21/2005 7:39:03 AM PST by nuke rocketeer
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To: ohioWfan
That would presume that the environmental nuts actually CARED about the environment.

They don't care about the environment; they care about leftism.

20 posted on 02/21/2005 7:46:48 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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