Possibly The Only Useful Thing that Iraq Accomplished

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Possibly The Only Useful Thing that Iraq Accomplished

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New clay tablet adds 20 lines to Epic of Gilgamesh



A newly discovered clay tablet in the Sulaymaniah Museum in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has corrected the order of chapters, filled in blanks and added 20 lines to the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.

-- George Carlin
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