fertile crescent [was: Looters Sack Baghdad Antiquities Museum]

[Bill Humphries]

On Saturday, April 12, 2003, at 11:15 AM, johnhall wrote:

>> The rich Mesopotamian marshlands known for centuries as the Fertile
>> Crescent have almost completely disappeared, with only 10 percent of
>> the important ecosystem still remaining, according to a study based on
>> satellite images of the region.
>>
>
> The damage was intentional.  The Marsh Arabs opposed Saddam.

You know, the Neocons missed a great marketing opportunity, they should 
had been selling Saddam as a defiler of the Environment to the Greens. 
They could had have raised a John Muir/Hayduke brigade of eco-warriors. 
:)

And the war could be even more like something out of a Ken McLeod novel.

-- whump