[Loyalist]

Baghdad was a different situation. Hussein had been looting his people for more than 25 years and starving them in the process, while he built luxurious palaces and dined on gourmet meals. Looting him was no crime.

[swarthyguy]

>>Looting him was no crime.

Guess you think it was OK for Iraqi mobs to loot hospitals, the National Museum, all kinds of equipment from offices because Saddam ruled them - right under the noses of US troops and AFTERthe regime was toppled.

Okey dokey.

But the point remains, in Baghdad, we didn't shoot looters. Heck, we even celebrated it as an expression of "freedom".

[independentmind]

Hussein had been looting his people for more than 25 years and starving them in the process, while he built luxurious palaces and dined on gourmet meals. Looting him was no crime.

Any major,modern city with a large underclass would experience the same as NO. BTW, plenty of people in NO (pre-flood) either lived or visited in luxury and dined on gourmet meals.