Re: Is it your contention that coalition forces stole the artifacts?
Indeed, it's my opinion that Baghdad's museums were looted by US marines... who then stage-managed a "domestic plundering" by so-called Ali Babas for the media. But then, the whole scenario was already written in 1999 --for the Three Kings movie:
Three Kings
The Gulf War - Operation Desert Storm - was the most recent major military campaign to involve the whole of the US military. It was also the most exhaustively reported war ever - at times, it seemed as though there were more TV reporters than soldiers out there in the desert. So, as a result, we think we know more about the Gulf War than any other conflict in history.
As Three Kings makes clear, however, we don't. An unconventional action/drama that alternates grim realism with surrealistic dark comedy, Three Kings is pretty much the kind of take on the Gulf War one would expect from iconoclastic writer/director David O Russell (Spanking the Monkey, Flirting With Disaster), here making his first major studio picture. It tells of four very different US soldiers sidelined by the high-tech war, who are about to be shipped out without ever having caught sight of the enemy.
Then they learn the whereabouts of a stash of Kuwaiti bullion stolen by the Iraqi Army and hidden somewhere in the desert. "Saddam stole it from the sheikhs," argues Special Forces Major Archie Gates (George Clooney), the only career soldier of the four. "I have no problem stealing it from Saddam. Just one stash would be easy to take, and that would be enough to get us out of our day jobs - unless you reservists are in love with your day jobs..?"
preview-online.com
Another good review:
cinemasense.com
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