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They caught us in another lie!!!
Posted on 07/14/2008 9:52:55 PM PDT by Uncle Ralph
A recent mission to Iraq headed by top archaeologists ... found that, contrary to received wisdom, southern Iraq's most important historic sites ... had neither been seriously damaged nor looted after the American invasion. This, according to a report by staff writer Martin Bailey in the July issue of the Art Newspaper. The article has caused confusion, not to say consternation, among archaeologists and has been largely ignored by the mainstream press. Not surprising perhaps, since reports by experts blaming the U.S. for the postinvasion destruction of Iraq's heritage have been regular fixtures of the news.
Up to now ... the accusations against the U.S., the de facto governing authority, had been taken on faith. No one had bothered to challenge the reports, the evidence or the logic. ...
Yet, paradoxically, there always was thought to be enough evidence to adduce blame. "We believe that every major site in Southern Iraq is in serious danger," Donny George, the former head of the Baghdad Museum, was quoted as saying in the New York Times in 2003. A recent book by Lawrence Rothfield of the University of Chicago's Cultural Policy Institute carried the estimate that, every year, roughly 10% of Iraq's heritage was being destroyed. ...
According to the Art Newspaper article, "The international team ... had been expecting to find considerable evidence of looting after 2003 but to their astonishment and relief there was none. ...
The mission also refuted the welter of news items we've all become familiar with accusing allied forces of damaging ancient sites ...
It is all a far cry from the hitherto prevailing impression abroad in the world that the invasion has directly led to the mass destruction of Iraq's archaeological heritage.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Latest heard from the DemonRATs
NO! NO! NO! NO!
They caught us in another lie!!!
“Faith,” in liberals, is always misplaced.
A recent mission to Iraq headed by top archaeologistsHey! I thought Iraq was too dangerous for anyone to travel to....
I think we all know we didnt break enough long enough.
NO! NO! NO! NO!
The Surge is Working!!!
It’s too late. The “looted sites” have already figured in the plot lines of several TV shows (and probably a movies, books, etc. that I’m not aware of). It’s become (to use an overworked, and most often misused term, beloved of pseudo-intellectual leftists) a cultural meme. The truth doesn’t matter — it’s the truthiness that counts.
I know a liberal who believes that the museum looting was more significant than the elimination of a serious international threat, and the liberation of 30,000,000 people from a police state. His version of the Iraq war boils down to this: Americans murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis, and the gross incompetence of the American military and the Bush Administration permitted the looting of irreplaceable historical artifacts. Nothing else of importance happened in Iraq.
Oh, heavens. I'm going to bake my liberal friends a yellow cake and we can all celebrate!
In Canada!
...actually it was the Muzzies stealing their own cultural heritage in Baghdad, or blowing up thousand year old Buddahs and smashing statues in Bamiyan and Kabul...not American GIs.
But, by all means, tell lies about the Americans...it’s all so typical.
Yep!
But, a good lie is still "good"...no?
This was reported shortly after the war was sorted out.
I don't know why this story is important now.
"But it is all a far cry from the hitherto prevailing impression abroad in the world that the invasion has directly led to the mass destruction of Iraq's archaeological heritage."
Didn't the Iraqis remove their antiquities to other locations to prevent their theft before the war?
That was my understanding.
I'm sure there's a thread or ten right on this forum to address that very subject.
Always struck me as odd that folks would head directly to the museum once the opportunity to loot came up.
Did New Orleans loose any historical treasures during Katrina?
Anywho, its been a long established fact (years) that No Looting Occurred. The museum directors finally fessed up that THEY took and/or hid all the 'looted' stuff for "safe keeping".
Bump.
Prior to the invasion Saddam was systematically destroying Assyrian archeological sites and using the stone to build mosques and palaces. But since this mosque builder, the most prolific and grand such in modern times, was "secular" in the eyes of the libs, that's OK.
Make that, "Prior to the liberation..."
Add it to the list of lies the media has told and the Administration has permitted.
When it comes to taking the ‘bully pulpit’, President Bush has been a serious disappointment.
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