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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Techplayer who wrote (404015)	5/8/2003 1:26:18 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I "talked" about several things. I must go to bed now so I can't straighten out any confusion that may exist. I refer you to the linked posts from last month for the trail of the proposition. TP

To: Techplayer who wrote (404015)	5/8/2003 1:54:05 AM
From: DavesM	Respond to of 769670

regarding the museum. "BAGHDAD, IRAQ – Even though many irreplaceable antiquities were looted during the chaotic fall of Baghdad last month, National Museum officials and American investigators now say the losses seem to be less severe than originally thought. Col. Matthew F. Bogdanos... said he had been given a list by museum officials of 29 artifacts that were definitely missing. Since then, four items - ivory objects from the eighth century B.C. - had been traced....'Twenty-five pieces is not the same as 170,000,' said Bogdanos, who in civilian life is an assistant district attorney in Manhattan." - By Alan Riding of the New York Times. "Nearly two weeks after looters rampaged through Iraq's National Museum of Antiquities, stealing thousands of artifacts dating from the dawn of civilization, art dealers and law enforcement people around the world are asking the same question. Where's the loot? Despite scattered rumors of artifacts turning up from Tehran to Paris, not a single one of the 90,000 or 120,000 or 170,000 plundered artifacts...is known to have been offered for sale anywhere in the world" - The Washington Post Then there is this from an Archeology Digest 1997 "It is also very likely that Saddam Hussein and his government are themselves involved in the selling of ancient artifacts. Such sales benefit Saddam Hussein in two ways. First, he and his government can make a lot of money from such sales, and Iraq is desperately in need of hard currency. And, second, he can use illegal antiquities sales as a way to attack the U.N embargo on Iraq. The Iraqi government has also accused U.N. staff members and foreign diplomats of trading in illegal Iraqi antiquities. This strongly suggests that Saddam Hussein is using the theft of Iraqi antiquities as a propaganda tool to force the U.N. to lift the sanctions against Iraq. Reuters Feb. 26, 1997"