[ambrose]

Funny how worked up you are over a museum... did you ever get this worked up over what Saddam did to our POWs?

And yes, the Oil Ministry IS more important than the museum.

[stripes1776]

I heard a report on the radio that this museum had been closed for a couple of years. Ordinary Iraqis were not allowed to go in it. Does anyone know for sure?

I also heard that the employees of the museum had done the looting themselves.

[RadioAstronomer]

And yes, the Oil Ministry IS more important than the museum.

I completely disagree. Machinery can be replaced, 7000 years worth of antiquities cannot.

[The Other Harry]

And yes, the Oil Ministry IS more important than the museum.

No, it is not.