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Troops were told to guard treasures
The Washington Times ^
| Paul Martin
Posted on 04/20/2003 6:20:12 AM PDT by wideminded
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To: seamole
I excerpted the article because I thought that is what we are supposed to do for copyright reasons, although I am somewhat unclear as to which newspapers this applies to. I probably should have excerpted some other sections such as the part you highlight in red, but I figured that the article is not too long altogether and people could just read the rest of it.
It looks like someone dropped the ball in the Pentagon, which is hard to understand given that Gen. Garner was supposed to be running the show in postwar Iraq.
To: WOSG
I am not much into hand-wringing or blame-game just because we missed protecting the museum ... but if it indicates a hole in DoD execution that runs deeper, I'd be very scared. Hmmmmmmmmm.
Ho hum.
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posted on
04/20/2003 3:28:04 PM PDT
by
Ole Okie
(When the museum story collapses of its own weight, what's the left's next talking point?)
To: kabar
"This story won't die because there is a political agenda behind it."
The story won't die because that museum was very important. The loss is comparable to the entire Smithsonian being picked clean and all the records being trashed.
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posted on
04/20/2003 7:42:30 PM PDT
by
Theresa
To: Theresa
The Left will keep it alive, not because they give a damn about ancient artifacts, but because it is the one bad aspect of the war they can exploit. They can use it against the President and the U.S. military they hate so much. If our troops had shot and killed some looters, the Left would be screaming bloody murder. They would be calling them war criminals; racists who don't value the lives of "Third World People of Color." They would be saying, "People, over property!" That we killed people in order to protect the valuable property in the museum.
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posted on
04/20/2003 7:57:58 PM PDT
by
Free ThinkerNY
((((Hypocricy and Liberalism go hand in hand))))
To: ladyjane
Prevented by whom? You seem to be quite sure that all the 'treasures' were stolen in the past few weeks. As you probably know, these were "stolen" by people in the know. Personally, I think that there is much more in the ground than in the museum.
Want to go digging in Abraham's city of Ur with me sometime? : - )
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04/20/2003 8:15:08 PM PDT
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Fractal Trader
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