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To: E. T. who wrote (70062)	4/28/2003 11:06:16 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

Try to support your three assertions that I have disputed, if you can. Message 18890225 If not, try to limit your assertions to what you can prove. Actually, you would make much more sense if you said most artifacts would have been in vaults as a pre-war precaution, rather than trying to argue that it is standard practice in all museums to have fakes on display.

To: E. T. who wrote (70062)	4/28/2003 11:17:07 AM
From: chomolungma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

I think the fact that so much energy has been spent, here and elsewhere, talking about the looting of Baghdad's museums is a pretty good sign that the liberation of Iraq was an unqualified success. It's sure nice that we're not reading about death tolls and body counts. Instead we're reading about stolen items which 99.9% of the world's population would never see anyway. Shame on America for not seeing this and shame on America for not risking the lives of their soldiers to protect pottery. I think we have a good idea that the U.S. will be blamed for everything, big and small, that goes wrong in Iraq for the next 50 years. And just as likely, there will be little credit and little thanks for those good things that happen. But just you watch, 50 years from now, incredibly, Iraq will be a far different, far better country than it was before the 3 week war began. But of course, then we'll get to hear how it would have all happened anyway and Saddam and his sons would have gently faded away without the heavy-handed invasion by warmonger Bush and his gang of pottery hating mercenaries. Why would it be otherwise? Look at all the goodwill the blood of American GIs bought us in Europe.