The Final Destruction of Babylon

John F. Robertson

President Saddam Hussein Restored Parts of BabylonThe Greatness of

Ancient Iraq

...From the beginning of Iraq's creation in the 1920s -and especially in the Baath era - the Iraqi government reached back into the greatness of Iraq's pre-Islamic civilizations (Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian) as a foundation of pride and unity upon which a new, distinctly Iraqi nationalism could be built that might unify Sunni Arabs, Shia Arabs, Kurds, Turkoman's, Christians, Jews, Yazidi's - all the different ethnic and religious elements of the new country. Saddam Hussein even went as far as to rebuild parts of ancient Babylon, as a symbol of Iraq's ancient greatness as well as his own putative connection to it...

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