pictures tell the story: change in iraq

pictures tell the story: change in iraq

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iraqi mother greets son april 13 on his release from al-dora prison: hadi mizban AP

obama with advisors in visit to camp victory: getty images

obama visits troops in iraq: AP

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Look down fair moon and bathe this scene, Pour softly down night's nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple, On the dead on their backs with arms toss'd wide, Pour down your untainted nimbus sacred moon. -Walt Whitman ............................. ................................................... Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more. -Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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A complex ecosystem created by the annual flooding of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, Iraq's marshes have sustained human civilization for more than 5,000 years. Some of the earliest settlements of Mesopotamia—"the land between the rivers"—were built on floating reed islands in these very wetlands. This was one of the first places where human beings developed agriculture, invented writing and worshiped a pantheon of deities. The marsh was partially drained by Saddam As much as 90% of the marsh became dry land and as many as 300,000 Ma'dan Shi'a arabs were killed or displaced leaving current efforts to revitalize the area meager at best. Dams built upstream on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq, Iran and Turkey have contributed to this vast wetland ecosystem disaster. In his 1964 classic, The Marsh Arabs, British travel writer Wilfred Thesiger described a timeless environment of "stars reflected in dark water, the croaking of frogs, canoes coming home at evening, peace and continuity, the stillness of a world that never knew an engine."
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