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To: RealMuLan who wrote (93945)	4/16/2003 4:43:05 PM
From: Condor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

How can someone put such a high priority on oil fields while pay NO attention to those priceless mankind treasures? Yes...I guess that point has been made on this thread about 10 times so far. Other than repeating, where do you expect to go with this line?

To: RealMuLan who wrote (93945)	4/16/2003 4:43:13 PM
From: paul_philp	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Exactly. How can someone put such a high priority on oil fields while pay NO attention to those priceless mankind treasures? Obviously, ignorant baby-killing, oil-for-blood Nazi's. System design backwards is like masturbation. A little fun for a few moments but nothing is really accomplished. Design a system that would protect every potential key location from looters without suppressing the crowds thus making the rage worse and not putting US troops in harms way while there were still snipers in Baghdad. No blood-for-vases, not in my name. Paul

To: RealMuLan who wrote (93945)	4/16/2003 6:25:18 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

<How can someone put such a high priority on oil fields while pay NO attention to those priceless mankind treasures?> We are materialists, who value tangible things, things with market value, over culture and ideas. Also, we are a nation that thinks history is meaningless. Americans care about the present, and the future, not the past. Historical arguments bore us. Part of our national culture is the Belief that we can control the present and future, without regard to the past. The priorities, in this order, are: 1. winning 2. winning at low cost (= few U.S. soldiers dead) 3. grab oil fields, with intact infrastructure 4. bully neighbors into submission 5. install U.S.-friendly government in Iraq . . . . 95. democracy 96. obey international law 97. protect cultural artifacts

To: RealMuLan who wrote (93945)	4/16/2003 6:57:52 PM
From: epsteinbd	Respond to of 281500

No masterpiece is worth as much as a severed arm of any Bagdadi thief. But you complain that the US made an historical mistake because they did not send in (or on time) enough prison guards to keep the museums... But they did send doctors in. We even saw some Iraki wounded being flown to places. May be some of those Ali Babas will grow up to be da Vincis ?