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To: slacker711 who wrote (93713)	4/15/2003 5:23:01 PM
From: epsteinbd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Can you think of a revolution, coup, invasion, liberation where people ransacked their hospitals and museums ? Why didn't the teachers associations, university students etc go to protect their treasures for a couple of days; nurses and doctors to their hospitals. Were the hospitals closed during those hours? Ali Baba was hiding behind Chemical Ali and now people complain that Mohammed Ali wasn't door keeping.

To: slacker711 who wrote (93713)	4/15/2003 5:29:12 PM
From: Bill Ulrich	Respond to of 281500

That's how I read it, too. "...wondering how someone who seemed to be expressing sorrow over the looting could simultaneously be participating in it." Perhaps Winona Ryder's Klepto-Depression therapy has a wider worldwide following than previously known.

To: slacker711 who wrote (93713)	4/15/2003 6:22:43 PM
From: mightylakers	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

expressing sorrow over the looting could simultaneously be participating in it. Human beings are ugly isn't it? Especially in the time of natural or man made disaster. You bring out the worst and the best of one's character. When you find out there's really nothing you can do to stop it, why not join it. In 1856, China experienced a similar disaster when the British and French stormed the famous imperial Garden Yuan Ming Yuan. while pillage was running wild, the local Chinese also joined the spree. Eventually, the looting of the Iraqis' Museums, libraries will be one the darkest moments in Iraqi history, just like the burning of the Yuan Ming Yuan in Chinese history. And they will be in the hall of shame in the coming generations, forever! So now people start to wondering why Iraqis doing this or doing that. That's a very good question, especially when you don't understand the people yet act under their name. Oh BTW, I'm really wondering out loud why the Iraqi Oil Ministry got the first class protection from the very beginning?