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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44027)	4/12/2003 10:22:20 AM
From: BubbaFred	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Many tyrants in the past, several now, and many more to come in the future. Onward and forward to the future and to the 21st century of American and western world society and humanity. What could be better than to discard all past despots and tyrants that made their marks in history. Here is one instance where the people want to erase their centuries of abominable tyrranical past and look toward to the future of unilaterism and anarchy. Looters Ransack Baghdad's Antiquities Museum By Hassan Hafidh BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Looters have sacked Baghdad's antiquities museum, plundering treasures dating back thousands of years to the dawn of civilization in Mesopotamia, museum staff said on Saturday. They blamed U.S. troops for not protecting the treasures. Surveying the littered glass wreckage of display cases and pottery shards at the Iraqi National Museum on Saturday, deputy director Nabhal Amin wept and told Reuters: "They have looted or destroyed 170,000 items of antiquity dating back thousands of years...They were worth billions of dollars." She blamed U.S. troops, who have controlled Baghdad since the collapse of President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s rule on Wednesday, for failing to heed appeals from museum staff to protect it from looters who moved in to the building on Friday. "The Americans were supposed to protect the museum. If they had just one tank and two soldiers nothing like this would have happened," she said. "I hold the American troops responsible for what happened to this museum." The looters broke into rooms that were built like bank vaults with huge steel doors. The museum grounds were full of smashed doors, windows and littered with office paperwork and books. "We know people are hungry but what are they going to do with these antiquities," said Muhsen Kadhim, a museum guard for the last 30 years but who said he was overwhelmed by the number of looters. "As soon as I saw the American troops near the museum, I asked them to protect it but the second day looters came and robbed or destroyed all the antiquities," he said. ARMED GUARDS Amin told four of the museum guards to carry guns and protect what remained. Some of the museum's artifacts had been moved into storage to avoid a repeat of damage to other antiquities during the 1991 Gulf War (news - web sites). It houses items from ancient Babylon and Nineveh, Sumerian statues, Assyrian reliefs and 5,000-year-old tablets bearing some of the earliest known writing. There are also gold and silver helmets and cups from the Ur cemetery. The museum was only opened to the public six months ago after shutting down at the beginning of the 1991 Gulf War. It survived air strikes on Baghdad in 1991 and again was almost unscathed by attacks on the capital by U.S.-led forces. Iraq (news - web sites), a cradle of civilization long before the empires of Egypt, Greece or Rome, was home to dynasties that created agriculture and writing and built the cities of Nineveh, Nimrud and Babylon -- site of Nebuchadnezzar's Hanging Gardens. story.news.yahoo.com

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44027)	4/12/2003 12:10:05 PM
From: BubbaFred	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

One of the most refreshing and perhaps as his last act of goodness, is the absence of wmd's and destruction of the oil facilities. This has not been mentioned anywhere although it was discernable from the first few days of the invasion or liberation. Instead the vengeance factor, glorified liberation, westernization are brought forth over and over again to bloated level of haughtiness. Often the message is mere ideological rhetorics without being practical and unrealistic to remain rhetorical. In other words, saying things don't mean a thing unless one develops the means for implementing them. Perhaps there is just too much "All talk and no action".

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44027)	4/12/2003 4:05:56 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 50167

More on the great LIES of Bush and Company CIA stooges trucked into Baghdad for statue toppling photo-op informationclearinghouse.info CC

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44027)	4/13/2003 2:55:50 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Less said the better.. Even a single life lost on both sides is immensely regretted but pundits who are paid a huge sums had this view... <<MILLION IRAQI KIDS WOULD DIE IN CONFLICT- Feb 19 2003 ONE million Iraqi children under the age of five could die from malnutrition if there is a war, warns a confidential United Nations' report. It says that five million Iraqis are vulnerable. Its experts estimate that up to half a million would need medical treatment for injuries. But they think that most deaths would come from disease and starvation not military attack. Around 70 per cent of the population - 18 million - would have no water supply and 8.7 million no sanitation if the country was blitzed. The 27-page dossier has been compiled by the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in New York and has been put on Secretary General Kofi Annan's desk. BOB BROWN: Well, both those things. What we do know from the CIA and ASIO, and other experts, is that the whole world becomes a greater terrorist target in the wake of this unnecessary attack on the 27 million people in Iraq. And there will be massive consequent casualties. The United States is talking about using three thousand smart bombs, outrageously called, obscenely called weapons, in the first 48 hours, and there are people at the other end of that trajectory. The estimations are that there will be three million people starving in the wake of that attack, including two million children and a million nursing mothers; there'll be five million people without shelter; there'll be a million people forced out of the country, and two more million internally displaced; an enormous humanitarian task for the world. BOB BROWN: …………..the United Nations alternatives are better than those of declaring war, but George Bush is determined to declare war, it is going to be an oil war, there will be massive casualties, including UN predictions of up to a hundred thousand people dying in the first few months.>>