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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (17055)	5/9/2003 11:22:54 AM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

My only remark re museum lootings was: (1) That museum management asked for help from American army and were refused, shortly before the lootings took place. Maybe they could have sent ten armed men to protect those treasures... The looting was planned and, by many accounts, the most valuable or rare artifacts taken before the troops got there. (2) Meanwhile, they protected the oil ministry. In fact, that is the only building they protected. That is a clear indication of where US interests lie, imho. Your biass is showing <ggg>. It's more likely that the US was prepared to defend the oil. I don't believe they knew that there would be planned methodical looting of artifacts with huge historical and religious value. Even if they had known that there would be looting, it is very difficult to stop mass looting. After the fall of every dictator, there have been massive crowd operations that included looting. The scale of what happened at the museum, the nature of planning and insider operation, was not predictable and not of the same priority in planning as saving innocent civilian death and destruction. You are right. Bush administration provided such a target-rich environment that not only is it easy to criticize them, the difficult part is to know where to start... I'd prefer you start with a bit of objectivity. Do you disagree with the rest of my prior post? In life, it is easy to be critical without offering a real plan of action which would lead to the same or better result. has assigned agents to stop this on EBAY Oh PLEASE! :-) Like, the Code of Hammurabi will be sold on Ebay :-) Have you been through EBAY lately? I was being facetious but I do believe that we are going through sources of underground systems you mention in attempts to retrieve these artifcats. You won't find any disagreement that the looting was despicable. Yet, why won't you agree that the US is doing its share to ameliorate the damage?