U.S. To Help Rebuild City Of Babylon In Iraq

Worldview Times ^ | 02/17/09 | Joel C. Rosenberg

[redstateconfidential]

This all sounds brilliant until you consider Iraq as the Richest and most advanced place in the world.....

[rfp1234]

the Obama Administration is contributing $700,000 towards "The Future of Babylon Project," through the State Department's budget.

Porkulus Iraqulus.

[Beowulf9]

Kinda cool.

Course then again the bible has some verse that says ‘Babylon the great has fallen...

[ottbmare]

Boy, it’s nice to know that the US has all that spare money to throw around.

[Billthedrill]

I’d go in a heartbeat. The problem with serious excavation in these places is where do you stop? Layers upon layers, each of which is historically significant, and Babylon is by no means the eldest of the ancient cities in Mesopotamia. If they’d stop killing one another over there it could be an archaeological smorgasbord.

[Big_Monkey]

"If they’d stop killing one another over there it could be an archaeological smorgasbord."

I have thought about this a lot myself. I'm not sure what percentage of Egypts GDP comes from tourism, but I'd wager it's very, very significant.

These people were writing, counting, multiplying and such when the rest of the world was still in loin cloths. At one time, Iraq was the Europe of the world. What a shame.

[lookout88]

Porkulus Iraqulus.

Too funny

[uptoolate]

If it becomes a “goldmine” of wealth from tourism, then maybe the Twelve Tribes could go after Babylon for reparations for the Captivity?

Cross Ref: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2188763/posts

[G8 Diplomat]

If they’d stop killing one another over there it could be an archaeological smorgasbord.

So true. There are so many great pre-Islamic archaeological sites. Turkey is full of them, Iran's got the tomb of Cyrus the Great among other sites, Iraq has the remains of Uruk, the first city built by mankind, Jordan has Petra and Roman remains such as Jarash, Syria's got some as well (Damascus and Aleppo are some of the oldest continually-inhabited cities in the world), the emirate of Fujayrah in the UAE is supposed to have many pre-Islamic artifacts buried beneath it, the island of Sir Bani Yas of the coast of Abu Dhabi has Nestorian Christian monestaries (Bahrain may have some also, because before Islam Nestorians lived there), in Yemen you can find tablets and walls inscribed with old the North Arabian language, and of course there is Bethlehem and the other Biblical cities. To name a few examples....

[Galactic Overlord-In-Chief]

What's more, the Obama Administration is contributing $700,000 towards "The Future of Babylon Project," through the State Department's budget.

Really? Does that mean we're going to see this in a few years?

[mirkwood]

The “US” doesn’t have the money to throw around. There IS no money. We are in debt out our wazoos. All this money is fiction. But, like the old button said..” I can’t be over-drawn..I still have checks left!”.

[Big_Monkey]

I don’t know where that things going. But, if it’s far away from Michelle Obama, then I’m all aboard.

[ottbmare]

I know, I was being sarcastic.

[waiyu]

Seems like I have read about this before. About 7 or 8 years ago. It was Tim LaHaye’s novel series, “Left Behind.” A fictional interpretation of the Book of Revelations. And before that, I read about it in the actual BOOK OF REVELATIONS!

[griffin]

“This all sounds brilliant until you consider Iraq as the Richest and most advanced place in the world.....”

Hey! Give Zero some time. He just got in about a month ago and is making great progress toward running western civilization into the ground. Then Iraq may just start to look good!

[topcat54]

"Officials hope Babylon can be revived and made ready for a rich future of tourism,

The idea that a proposed tourist atraction has any prophetic significance is absurd. It's just more fuel for the Rapture Ready knuts, and folks who hawk books about such things, like Mr. Rosenberg.

In my non-fiction book, Epicenter 2.0, I wrote

Non-fiction. Hah!

[Lee N. Field]

(Damascus and Aleppo are some of the oldest continually-inhabited cities in the world),

Not continuous. Just a little note for the next time you hear someone start rambling on about the "Oracle of Damascus":

In 733 BC his armies conquered Philistia on the Mediterranean coast, destroyed Damascus (732) and occupied most of Israel (732), with its northern regions becoming Assyrian provinces.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Dey gonna be war in de Babylon!

[kevinw]

Amen. That’s exactly what this is. We have no business building and rebuilding cities in other countries. Let them build and rebuild their own cities.