[geedee]

Of all the things which could have gone horribly wrong in this war, all the Left has is the looting of a museum to whine about.

I'm with you. All this "priceless" artifact nonsense is is the leftist's latest attempt to muddy a great victory.

Priceless? BS! A coalition life lost trying to save a Golden Fleece that only elitist, rich guys with all kinds of indecipherable initials after their names will ever look at . . . NOW THAT, FRiend, IS PRICELESS!!!!!!!!!

[Henk]

What is most ironic about the (contrived) uproar over the museum looting is that it's all loot to begin with.

Consider the history of this region. Here's a quote from a recent John Derbyshire column:

“Iraq’s ancient heritage”? In what sense do these ancient artifacts belong to Iraq’s heritage? The nation of Iraq has only existed since 1932. Prior to that, the “land of the two rivers” was a British colony. Before that, it belonged to the Ottoman Empire. Heading backwards through time beyond that, it belonged to the White Sheep Turks, the Black Sheep Turks, the Timurids (another variety of Turk), the Mongols, the Abassids (Arabs), the Seljuks (more Turks), the Buwayhids (Persians), the Abbasids again, the Umayyads (more Arabs), the Sassanids (Persian), the Arsacids (Parthian), the Seleucids (Macedonian-Greek), the Persians again, the Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Aramaeans, the Elamites, the Kassites, the Amorites, the Akkadians, and the Sumerians.

The point is all these priceless artifacts have simply been looted and pillaged from previous civilizations to begin with.