Since you like to repeat, I'll refer to my past posts. The looting was despicable (your words with which I agree.) Could we have done better? Of course. Although I've seen contrary articles, I'll even concede that we were negligent in not posting more guards right away in front of the museum, the banks, the ministry of information, etc.
Your post shows your bias because you assume that we acted solely out of economic interest. If that were the case, we would have been better prepared to prevent looting of banks, palaces and ministries. If we were really motivated by the dark side, you must admit that it would be easier to steal a few billion in cash than to try to control the oil industry.
In fact, it appears that we screwed up by preventing nuclear materials and possible WMD from being looted. We prevented cash from being looted. We failed to prevent fires that may have destroyed vital information at the information ministry and other Saddam secret agencies.
Again, back to my prior posts. We did very well in the war. Our plan was achieved with historical lack of human casualties on all sides. Do you admit that at all? No, of course not. Everything can't be done to near perfection.
You will find the slightest reason to criticize. The looting has not helped us. We have lost information, perhaps nuclear materials, cash and, yes, artifacts. I don't believe that it was avoidable. We had defined goals, massive ones and an operation that accomplished almost of them. Our troops and our nation should be praised for spending millions, hundreds of millions, in fact, developing weapons that would inflict minimal harm to civilians and even to combatants. Can we learn from the mistakes? Yes, "to err is human." You know the rest.
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