James Lileks's take on that
ridiculous John Le Carre item many others have shredded today.
The angle I hadn't seen before was the Marsh Arabs. Le Carre managed to work ecology into his catalog of inanities, and Lileks pointed out how Saddam drained a huge
swampwetland between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers because rebels allegedly were hiding there. Here's more about
them.
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