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Politics : SUPPORT OUR TROOPS

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To: TigerPaw who wrote (1940)4/16/2003 2:12:24 PM
From: gypsees  Read Replies (2) of 3592
 
I never mentioned ebay. That was somebody else's idea - and I believe it was said in jest though I am not certain.
I believe if government or museum officials took them it would have been from their own sense of nationalism and not necessarily to sell.

How do you fit arson of these manuscripts into you supposed plot to take the treasures ....

I suppose they should have put the Koran in the same vault with the other stuff they boxed up. Or perhaps if they had spent a bit more on the welfare of the populace, their own people would not have felt the need to do what they did.
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