[Fabozz]

"Looting is a long-standing problem in Iraq as local people are eager for the high prices that international collectors will pay, but it has intensified in the chaos that followed the fall of Saddam Hussein, museum officials said. In Europe, some 60,000 objects are stolen each year, many from churches and museums, according to the FBI."

So remember, kids: When white people take something that doesn't belong to them, it's called "stealing" and is the fault of white people. When Arabs or blacks (q.v. the Rodney King riots) take something that doesn't belong to them, it's called "looting" and is the fault of white people.

[elli1]

So remember, kids: When white people take something that doesn't belong to them, it's called "stealing" and is the fault of white people. When Arabs or blacks (q.v. the Rodney King riots) take something that doesn't belong to them, it's called "looting" and is the fault of white people.

For sure. I noticed that the article didn't outright tell us when or from where the articles were supposedly 'looted'. We're sposed to assume that it's Bush's fault when the truth might be that the stuff went missing from a museum years ago, might have been been in a private collection & 'looted' from someone's house or hocked by a private collector who's out of work & strapped for cash.