[Lurking2Long]

If Iraq was once a part of the Garden of Eden, then the place has sure gone to hell in a handbasket....

[2banana]

You would think this action alone would make Saddam a villain and Bush a hero to the environmental nuts...

[JesseJane]

I hope this is possible.

[Virginia Queen]

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.

[evets]

Closed for repairs.

[marsh_of_mists]

Bush, evil anti-environment CONSERVATIVE, saves the marshes. I wonder if you'll find this article on DU?

[shekkian]

Maybe we could plant a new tree of knowledge of good and evil.

[orionblamblam]

>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?

[Piranha]

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?

[DJ MacWoW]

ping

[Reagan is King]

But the scientists said a sustained international effort would be needed to support Iraqis' efforts to turn the current ad-hoc flooding into a sustainable long-term revival.

Scientist-speak for "we need grant money".

As big of an environment wrecker as Saddam was you'd think the Greenies would have marched on Baghdad themselves but I guess hating America comes first. Should I wait for them to thank President Bush for saving the marshes?

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Plans by Turkey and Iran to take more water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers also pose a long-term threat to marshland restoration.
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This could get real interesting not just to the marshland but the whole area.

[trebb]

I doubt the Garden was that confined. There were rivers running through it and all sorts of animals for Adam to name. It's a tribute to Man's basic flaws that Adam hung around the one tree, in the one area where he could get into trouble...

[alwaysconservative]

Restoring "Eden" is a noble and laudable goal, and a very intriguing one at that. Thanks for posting this!

[dighton]

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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.

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-- James (Jan) Morris, Farewell the Trumpets.

[Ciexyz]

You'd think they could encourage tourism.

[elephantlips]

For the world people who argue that the bible is myth, the Garden of Eden never existed. For those who do believe what the bible says, the Garden of Eden not only exists but is guarded by fierce angelic creatures who would never allow anyone into the garden or even know of its existence. So, you don't get to pick and choose.

Tonight, on a major TV channel, there will be a revealing of what Jesus looks like and looked like as a child. The implications from the trailer, shows Italian "CSI" people utilizing modern imaging to recreate Jesus' image from the "Shroud of Turin" Did I miss something recently where it was proven that the image on the Shroud "was" Jesus? Here, again, we have the secularists trying it both ways. Jesus as the Son of God, never existed but if He did, this is what He looked like! How are they able to keep up with their multifaceted lives? We all need to remember that the enemy is the "father of lies," he cannot, is unable to, speak the truth. That, is his greatest weakness.

[Peelod]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1347621/posts

It's Bush's fault.

[muleskinner]

The garden of Eden is/was in Iran about 10 miles outside of Tabriz.