[HairOfTheDog]

This seems unfortunate.

It is unfortunate. Even Saddam's palaces are beautiful structures I hate to see destroyed. It is a mess without immediate cure. I hope our people, and our press, can be patient that this is not a known situation we have practiced before. The infrastructure for law and order over there is all but *gone*. The best minds we have are trying to figure out how to handle this, but they will not be able to prevent broken plates. At least they aren't killing each other... yet, and that potential certainly exists. Our people will have the beginnings of a process soon. Hopefully it will be soon enough!

[Stentor]

Even Saddam's palaces are beautiful structures I hate to see destroyed.

In an Albert Speer kind of way.

[Cultural Jihad]

This reminds me of the old socialist political cartoon from around 1918. A matron dripping in mink and pearls looks in horror at an old Master's painting with bullet holes in it, and asks, 'Such a shame! Couldn't you have rounded up some peasants to protect it with their bodies?'