I don’t think many people cracked the code of this post and read what I didn’t wrote here:

This one propaganda set by the US years ago, that the Iraqi government attempting to dry the marshes, the US claim that it was a genocide against the Marshes Arabs.

Read it here:

The Crimes of Saddam Hussein: 1980–1990 The Marsh Arabs

Yet, recent Iraq government came to the same conclusion of the former government.

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FAO: Iraq, Development and Water - 1997

In order to increase water transport efficiency, minimise losses and waterlogging, and improve water quality, a number of new watercourses were constructed, especially in the southern part of the country. The Saddam river (or Third river) functions as a main out-fall drain collecting drainage waters of more than 1.5 million hectares of agricultural land from north of Baghdad to the Gulf, between the two main rivers (the Euphrates and the Tigris). The length of the watercourse, completed in December 1992, is 565 km, with a total discharge of 210 m³/s. Other watercourses were also constructed to reclaim new lands or to reduce waterlogging.

BBC: Iraq marshes’ recovery 'in doubt’ 30 August 2006

But the future availability of water for restoration is in question because of increasing urban and agricultural demands for water in Iraq………An estimate made by Iraqis suggests that to restore the marshes could take half of the nation’s total water supply. That will be very difficult; human needs have always come first.