Posted on 04/13/2003 3:43:56 AM PDT by looney tune
Being reported on CNN - 6 POWs - found alive. No more information.
I think the networks should have kept a lid on it. I read in some article that CNN was actually CALLING and INTERVIEWING the families of POW/MIAs. Can you believe that?? That really steams me.
I'm ecstatic that 7 POWs were found alive....but we're missing more than 7 soldiers, and there is a good chance that most of those families interviewed by CNN will not be the ones called on by the military to give them the joyous news. What then for those families???
What's with CNN?? It's not enough that they spent years being a collective accessory to Saddam's tortures and murders....it's no fun anymore to contribute to the pain of thousands of Iraqis, so they have to torture American families now??
WE did not 'trash' their museum, the Iraqis did that themselves. Please don't start that 'if we can spare soldiers to protect hospitals, we can surely spare a few to protect a museum' crap on this thread, which is about POWS.
You've got a problem with what the Iraqis did to their museum? Take it to the UN. That's what all the whining is about after all: creating an excuse to bring un the mighty UN to 'restore order'. I still have sincere doubts that Saddam's girl curator was telling anything close to the truth about the contents stolen. Her statements sounded too much like an Iraqi weapons declaration.
I have a Corithian Olpe, (7th century BC) on my desk - a Greek hand made copy. The value of these things is in what we SEE and what we know about what we are seeing.
Would Michaelangelo be become obsolete as an artist if all his artworks were destroyed at this point in time?? Of course it's a foolish question.
Miracles DO still happen!
I'd have to say I agree.
"The value of these things is in what we SEE and what we know about what we are seeing."
You got that right, and therein lies the problem.
The problem with the artifacts alleged to be stolen by the 'curator' is that there is no way to confirm the veracity of her claims....and that's if you optimistically figure the museaum MIGHT have had a third of the number of artifacts she claims were stolen.
The idea of priceless historical treasures irrevokably lost has now been planted in the public mind....which was apparently the whole plan. Even though it's far more likely that the items stolen were more along the lines of desk chairs, air conditioners and maybe computers, an urban legend similar in scope to that of the Necronomicon has now been born. It's probably gonna grow all by itself; movies will be made about some hero recovering some one-of-a-kind Uric text....and the US will continually be blamed for the imagined losses of unimaginable treasures. Sad.
I second this, DJF....there's something wrong with this picture we have today...that our young women are in war zones....leaving their children behind....I don't care about PC, women's lib, feminism, etc.....what a bunch of crap that's been shoved down the collective throats of America....Pfc Lynch's fellow soldier and friend--Lori Peshewia (sorry on the spelling) was a single mother with TWO very young children...IMHO what a disgrace that she would be in a war zone, and now dead. So much for PC, women's lib, feminism, etc....women are supposed to be better off? GIVE ME A BREAK, already! We've given away our GOD-given/GOD-ordained special position of privilege--of esteem--all for the sake of "equal rights," women's lib, etc.????? Definitely something wrong--and inequitable IHMO--with this picture (...and that, dear folks, is my rant for the day...thanks for tuning in).
That remains to be seen. It was looted, but what was there at the time? From a March 27th article: "The staff is now living in the museum to prevent potential plundering and has been trained to transport artifacts filling thirty-two exhibition rooms to secret locations in just one day." Could well have been an inside job.
In any case, it wasn't us trashing their museum, looting is inevitable in a situation like this.
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