Just not the quagmire the MSM would have you believe. Apparently, back in the early ‘90’s Saddam’s regime built an extensive network of dykes and channels to take water away from the marsh lands near the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers as an act of punishment for the acts of rebellion of the people who lived there, resulting in a 90% reduction in size.
The near-total destruction of the Iraqi marshlands under the regime of Saddam Hussein was a major ecological and human disaster, robbing the Marsh Arabs of a centuries-old culture and way of life as well as food in the form of fish and that most crucial of natural resources – drinking water.
Iraq project coordinator for the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) Chizuru Aoki had this to say:
“Immediately after the fall of the last regime, local people started to breach dykes which had taken water away from the marshes and bring water back into drained areas.†[emphasis mine]
Now, it’s a great thing that 37% of the original area has returned to its original state, but to my recollection, didn’t the last regime in Iraq have a little help “falling� And didn’t it “fall†in spite of the UN’s bitter protest? It makes one wonder if the UN, and all the naysayers, will ever admit we did some good by felling a despicable tyrant and his government of thugs thereby restoring Iraq to the beautiful quagmire it once was.
