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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (101516)	6/14/2003 3:41:05 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 281500

Mr. Charles Krauthammer is simply AWESOME! >>>>>Well, not really. Turns out the Iraqi National Museum lost not 170,000 treasures but 33. You'd have to go back centuries, say, to the Mongol invasion of Baghdad in 1258, to find mendacity on this scale.<<<<<< >>>>>>>What happened? The source of the lie, Donny George, <<<<<<< >>>>>>>>Of course, George saw the story of the stolen 170,000 museum pieces go around the world and said nothing -- <<<<<<indeed, two weeks later, he was in London calling the looting "the crime of the century." Why? Because George and the other museum officials who wept on camera were Baath Party appointees <<<< >>>>>>>>It played on front pages everywhere and allowed for some deeply satisfying antiwar preening. For example, a couple of nonentities on a panel no one had ever heard of (the President's Cultural Property Advisory Committee) received major media play for their ostentatious resignations over the cultural rape of Baghdad.<<<<<< >>>>>>The narcissism, the sheer snobbery of this statement, is staggering. For Upper West Side liberalism, this matters less than the destruction of a museum.<<<<<< Which didn't even happen! >>>>>>>>>Does he admit that this judgment was nothing but a naked revelation of the cheapest instincts of the antiwar left -- that, shamed by the jubilation of Iraqis upon their liberation, a liberation the Western left did everything it could to prevent, the left desperately sought to change the subject and taint the victory?<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>Hardly. The left simply moved on to another change of subject: the "hyping" of the weapons of mass destruction. <<<<<<<