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To: RealMuLan who wrote (93941)	4/16/2003 4:56:16 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Experts' Pleas to Pentagon Didn't Save Museum nytimes.com [ My understanding is that responsibility for stuff like this is fairly clear under the Geneva Conventions, but it's also my understanding that the Geneva Conventions have never been an impediment to the W crowd . They can always move the date of the "end of the war" around to cover themselves. Rummy is being his usual tactful self on this one : ] At the Pentagon today, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld defended the military's approach. "To try to pass off the fact of that unfortunate activity to a deficit in the war plan strikes me as a stretch," Mr. Rumsfeld told a reporter who asked whether the looting of the museum reflected a military mistake. [ as for historical precedents that people are being so glib with around here, there's this: ] While war and looting are synonymous, few scholars could remember such a spectacular loss in recent times. When Vietnam invaded Cambodia and overthrew Pol Pot in January 1979, there was virtually no looting of ancient Khmer art or manuscripts. During World War II, the Allies changed their military strategy to avoid fighting inside Florence, Italy. Langdon Warner, a Harvard archaeologist, is a hero in Japan for persuading the Air Force to spare the ancient cities of Nara and Kyoto from firebomb raids that laid waste to other major Japanese cities in 1945. No such solicitude was shown for Berlin or Dresden. [ Elsewhere, MSNBC picked up this AP story: Iraq National Library up in smoke msnbc.com ; however, they provide "balance" of the type that local "objective" observers would approve of by linking in these stories: msnbc.com msnbc.com msnbc.com . It's all somebody else's fault. ]

To: RealMuLan who wrote (93941)	4/17/2003 1:12:01 AM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

instructed the US soldiers to protect Oil field but not these priceless treasure for Mankind? are you saying the oil fields are not a priceless treasure to the Iraqis? --fl@trillions.com