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"but the liberals will scream bloody murder now that a bunch of old vases have been stolen by the starving masses."

Wrong! I am a 100% right wing conservative and I think this is a terrible shame. We should have planned to guard this museum. How many soldiers would it have taken? This makes us look sloppy and disorganized. Come to think of it I am getting impatient for the US to get going on stopping the looting. It's starting to make us look bad that we are not doing anything.

We can hope the story is overblown, and that the most valuable items were well-secured.

Otherwise, it's a real shame.

Wrong! I am a 100% right wing conservative and I think this is a terrible shame. We should have planned to guard this museum. How many soldiers would it have taken? This makes us look sloppy and disorganized. Come to think of it I am getting impatient for the US to get going on stopping the looting. It's starting to make us look bad that we are not doing anything.

Symptoms: Anxiety, jumpiness, worry about the world going to he**-in-an-handbasket, blaming America first sentiments, thinking America will have permanent black eye over latest problem.

Diagnosis: Overexposure to CNN/Reuters/ABC/CBS and foreign anti-US media.

Cure: Turn off TV, 'net, take deep breath and realize that it's not as bad as they make it sound. They are desperately trying to make you feel bad as a supporter of the US troops. Dont you remember just two weeks back when these same media tried to convince us that the whole Iraqi people opposed the 'invasion' and were fighting bravely all over southern Iraq.

Perspective Reminder - this *WAR* cost over 100 American lives and thousands of Iraqi civilian lives - how does the museum looting compare to those losses? Meanwhile, we may have found the WMDs, and top Baathists are surrendering. Oh, and we just fond *300* suicide vests in a school. IT was a bloody war, and thank God it wasnt harder, bloodier, longer and worse.

>>Come to think of it I am getting impatient for the US to get going on stopping the looting. It's starting to make us look bad that we are not doing anything.<<

My opinion is that we should not be quick to judge the way the coalition forces are handling the circumstances. We have no way of knowing what really happened, and can hardly trust the media.

Saddam may be behind this. By destroying Iraqi National Treasure, Saddam would hope to incite around the world the very sentiments you express. To Saddam, material signs of Iraq's history were of no value beyond the leverage he could get by threatening their destruction.

I trust the coalition forces will install law and order with success as soon as they have ferreted out the remaining pockets of Saddam's regime. They have gotten us this far, and I think we shouldn't doubt them now, especially in response to the very stuff Saddam would use to rile up our emotions.

risa

"We should have planned to guard this museum. How many soldiers would it have taken? This makes us look sloppy and disorganized"

It's unfair to expect our soldiers to turn their backs on the guns and homocide bombers in front of them in order to go and protect artifacts that the much touted Iraqi pride should have made taboo.

"Come to think of it I am getting impatient for the US to get going on stopping the looting. It's starting to make us look bad that we are not doing anything."

It was one thing when Iraqis were looting the offices of their tortures of desk chairs and air conditioners and the homes of their torturers of gold dining room chairs as they did at Uday's house. It's quite another for them to destroy their own heritage.

I would like to know more about the 'looters', their motives and the artifacts themselves. Either way, our soldiers are having enough problems in Baghdad, without having to stop in the middle of multiple firefights to answer the UN call for them to be policemen as well.

That call from the UN, combined with continued fighting and attacks by Pali terrorists angry at their benefactor's political demise smells like a concious attempt to trap our forces in a 'quagmire.'

If our soldiers HAD turned aside from their goal in order to immediately try to restore order in the middle of a WAR ZONE, and some had been killed or injured as a result of protecting Iraq's heritage from the Iraqi people....would you still be angry that our forces didn't do 'enough' and 'look sloppy'?