"Stay Behind" strategies in Iraq [Terraforming with the Army Corps of Engineers]

[Major Variola (ret)]

At 11:37 AM 4/14/03 +0100, Ken Brown wrote:
 >Some people say that the draining of the marshes has messed up the water
 >table in the south (like the ecological disasters in old Soviet Central
 >Asia, though on a much smaller scale - no doubt similar boo-boos were
 >made in the US, also on a much smaller scale,

Ask a Floridian about the Everglades some time.  A few thou
died in a hurricane early last century,
so the Army Corps of Engineers channelized the marshes.  Cut
the glades down to about a quarter.  It was just swamp then,
not a natural treasure.  Not quite the toxic dust bowl that
the Russkies made, but it did happen here.