Liar. Mesopotamia is suppose to be the home of Adam and Eve according to scholars who have studied this stuff for ages and ages.
This guy must have read up on Marx. "Repeat a lie often enough, and you'll eventually get your taxpayer rip off."
FOX was also reporting how the new school textbooks have Islam as a "religion of peace" and a "Jihad" as a purification ritual.
Vote school choice canidates. Shut down the indoctrination centers.
I was about to make the same remark, but I think he's referring to civilization, as in cultivating crops, the Egyptians, Phoenecians, etc. and not the origins of man. Anyway, kinda Ironic that the Tigris and Euphrates is in IRAQ...uh, er, should that be the other way around considering the potential deadliness of the upcoming confrontation there.