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[Asian-Eurasian Human Rights Forum] The smash of civilizations: of Tomdispatch: The World Monuments Fund has placed Iraq on its list of the Earth’s 100 most endangered... in this country.
[Gadling.com] Iraq Sites on Endangered List - Gadling - www.gadling.com _: Iraq making the World Monuments Fund list of endangered cultural sites should come as no real shocker to most of us, but I thought this piece found at CNN would serve as a good read for those not quite clued in on how much damage has been caused by the war. Though many of the 55 sites that made the list recently were sites like a hut in Antarctica or a Modernist building in NY, Iraq marks the first time an entire country has ever been placed on the list.
[Thebluevoice.blogspot.com] The Blue Voice: From Salon.com this morning comes this astounding headline: "Entire nation of Iraq on list of endangered sites." The World Monument Fund, which tries to protect and conserve important monuments from all time periods, antiquity up to the twentieth century, has placed what I was taught in school was the place where It All Began, the "Cradle of Civilization," the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, on their list of endangered places. THE ENTIRE COUNTRY.
[Motherjones.com] The Smash of Civilizations: Polk, the founder of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago, says, "It was there, in what the Greeks called Mesopotamia, that life as we know it today began: there people first began to speculate on philosophy and religion, developed concepts of international trade, made ideas of beauty into tangible forms, and, above all developed the skill of writing."[2] No other places in the Bible except for Israel have more history and prophecy associated with them than Babylonia, Shinar (Sumer), and Mesopotamia -- different names for the territory that the British around the time of World War I began to call "Iraq," using the old Arab term for the lands of the former Turkish enclave of Mesopotamia (in Greek: "between the [Tigris and Eurphrates] rivers").[3] Most of the early books of Genesis are set in Iraq (see, for instance, Genesis 10:10, 11:31; also Daniel 1-4;
[Lewrockwell.com] Robbing the Cradle of Civilization by Tom Engelhardt and Chalmers ...: The best-known of the civilizations that make up Iraq's cultural heritage are the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Parthians, Sassanids, and Muslims. On April 10, 2003, in a television address, President Bush acknowledged that the Iraqi people are "the heirs of a great civilization that contributes to all humanity."4 Only two days later, under the complacent eyes of the U.S. Army, the Iraqis would begin to lose that heritage in a swirl of looting and burning.
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