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To: paul_philp who wrote (93963)	4/16/2003 5:17:04 PM
From: Condor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Yes, Iraq without it's oil infrastructure but all it's vases would have such a bright future. 10 men, one tank and a moment of forthought would have preserved the antiquities. You seem to suggest that the entire Iraq conquest would have failed if they had to attend to the Museum. The sheer fact that the military and the US would not have had to undergo this intense criticism throughout the world would in itself have justified a meagre protection of the facility. Your dismissal of the importance of the artifacts of civilization is puzzling. You seem to try to present yourself as an intellect at times and at other times behave like Kenny of the alcoholic family from the trailer park on South Park. Whazzup Paul? Are yah high brow or low brow or one brow? Let's you and I start another thread and discuss it shall we?

To: paul_philp who wrote (93963)	4/16/2003 5:21:33 PM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 281500

"No Rants", said a local baby. Some people sure can dish it out.

To: paul_philp who wrote (93963)	4/16/2003 5:30:28 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Your claim that it was either the museum or the oil infrastructure is silly. Half a dozen tanks and a dozen soldiers would have been enough to protect the museum. Failing to protect the museum was a HUGE mistake, that will haunt us for a long time and has already alienated a lot of potentially friendly Iraqis and generated very bad publicity around the world. The resources it would have taken to protect the museum were a tiny fraction of the resources we expended protecting the oil fields, and about what it took to protect the oil ministry --that's not the oil infrastructure Paul, just the oil bureaucracy. It's very unfortunate that people are so defensive about our few mistakes and deny them in the face of overwhelming evidence. It's as if admitting a mistake would invalidate the rationale for the war. It looks like the war is costing a lot less than budgeted so far. How about announcing a $100 million or so "museum restoration fund" to pay people to return pieces stolen, no questions asked? Now THAT would erase a lot of the bad publicity and even reverse the bad feelings. Kyros