[FITZ]

Yes it does seem unfortunate ---all their history ---and those artifacts can't be replaced. That's their own culture they're looting and destroying though --- maybe they just have that little respect for it now after Saddam.

[mtbopfuyn]

Yes, it is a shame they don't have much respect for their history, though I am leary of some of the story. It's hard to believe the Iraqis slapped their slippers on the vaults and they magically opened. If any museum should be looted it's that one SH has pictures of himself covering every square inch.

I also felt SH's yacht shouldn't have been destroyed as it could have been sold with the proceeds going for reconstruction. The palaces looked as if much had previously been removed, but what is left in the main one could be given back to the people as a museum so they don't forget SH's greed. Keep some torture chambers and bunkers for the same reason. Some smaller palaces could be sold again for reconstruction and/or converted into universities or some such.