[Orlando]

This site should of been protected on day #1.

[MizSterious]

"This site should of been protected on day #1."

And how many other sites? If we protected every place that someone considers valuable, there would have been no troops left to do what they went in there to do: liberate Iraq.

Let's be honest: we did not do the looting. It's not our responsibility--that belongs to whoever did it, most likely the Iraqis. They have just looted themselves.

[Grampa Dave]

Here is a reply from Phil Dragoo on another thread that explains our problems with defending/securing this museum.

Hopefully Phil will elaborate on this for us.

To: TroutStalker; Grampa Dave; PhiKapMom

Lt. Col. Schwartz, whose functions also include feeding the lions in the abandoned Baghdad Zoo next door, said he couldn't move into the museum compound and protect it from looters last week because his soldiers were taking fire from the building -- and were determined not to respond. There is an Iraqi army trench in the museum's front lawn, and Lt. Col. Schwartz said his troops found many Iraqi army uniforms inside. "If there is any dirty trick in the book," he said, "they sure used it."

NYT and the alphabetnet continue to try to foist the Big Lie of looting--when it's more the Mogadishu template: U.S. removes tyrant starving citizens, so tyrant hides behind citizens to shoot at U.S.

For NYT and the alphabetnet America, Bush and the troops are ALWAYS wrong, their question at press conferences and in their "news" is ALWAYS "Why hasn't Bush quit beating his wife!"

Kudos to WSJ and Fox for the balanced report.

The Leftist propaganda machine is in effect criticizing the dead firemen and police in the WTC for failing to rescue "millions of irreplaceable files".

It's a war of liberation and we and the Iraqis are victorious.

The Left is losing--and it turns their red faces purple.


28 posted on 04/17/2003 12:16 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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[Steve_Seattle]

"This site should of been protected on day #1."

Frankly, if I were part of an army invading the USA and the country was still full of snipers and suicide bombers, I wouldn't be thinking much about protecting the Smithsonian Institute. I'd be covering my ass and looking for the remaining military targets.

[TomB]

This site should of been protected on day #1.

Why? Do you have some emotional attachment to replicas?

[FirstFlaBn]

Deep understanding of cultural history from someone who doesn't know the difference between a preposition and a verb. Amazing.

Any High Contracting Party in occupation of the whole or part of the territory of another High Contracting Party shall as far as possible support the competent national authorities of the occupied country in safeguarding and preserving its cultural property.

The above is the much ballyhooed Geneva Convention requirement. It leaves plenty of room for military necessity. We clearly met the requirements. If you had read any of the stories on the subject, you would have known that the looting took place over a two day period last week and that during most of this period the enemy were occupying the site and shooting at US soldiers. See stories describing uniforms found in the museum and trenches in the front yard.

How many American lives should have been sacrificed (or risked) to meet your simple-minded admonition?

[arasina]

This site should of been protected on day #1.

I heard on FNC that the museum keepers supposedly had a 48-hour emergency evacuation plan wherein they would remove the antiquities to a safe location. They should have put that plan in action in the weeks before the troops got to Baghdad. (During the sandstorm would've been optimum.) Methinks the curators may have themselves been involved in orchestrated "looting." I hope items are found eventually (and some will be) and the new "owners" are charged with theft.

[F16Fighter]

"This site should of been protected on day #1."

At the cost of how many irreplaceable American Marines??