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To: TigerPaw who wrote (403861)	5/7/2003 10:53:50 PM
From: Techplayer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Only? another spin job by the local chinese green card holder...

To: TigerPaw who wrote (403861)	5/7/2003 10:59:43 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Is there any real evidence that the Ministry of Oil was protected, or is that just another myth that has been repeated ad nauseam, so that you believe it is true?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (403861)	5/7/2003 11:03:55 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

.......More irritating is the myth constantly repeated by antiwar columnists that the military let the city be destroyed--in particular the hospitals and the national museum--while guarding the Ministry of Oil. The museum looting is turning out to have been grotesquely exaggerated. And there is no evidence for the ministry of oil story. Depending on the article, the Marines had either a tank or a machine gun nest outside the ministry. Look for a photo of that tank or that machine gun nest and you'll look in vain. And even if the Marines had briefly guarded the oil ministry it would have been by accident: The Marines defended only the streets around their own headquarters and so-called Areas of Operation. Again, though, given the pro-regime sources favored by so many of the press corps huddled in the Palestine Hotel, it's not surprising that this rumor became gospel...... chronwatch.com