Maybe so. But the looting is also a travesty that could (and should) have been prevented.
Give me a break. 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. Don't fall for this BS. If the military had prevented the looting, they would be crying about the water, or the power, or the lack of TV, or who knows. But they would have found something to bash Bush with.
in harms way and some even gave their lives to free them.
I'm sick of whiners insinuating that stopping a burglery of a museum is more important to Iraq
than what our troops than what they actually did stop. JMHO
When you are up to you’re a$$ in alligators, it is sometimes hard to remember that your goal was to drain the swamp.
Even a handful of tanks and support troops for 16 sites, is heck of a big job while being fired upon.
If you think it was so important why weren't you there putting you life on the line to defend it?
You must have some inside information I am not aware of. As some other posters suggested, this was probably an inside job. The main treasures could have been stolen before we even got to Baghdad. As far as stopping the looting, we would probably have had to shoot some of them. How would that have gone down public relations wise during the early days of our entry into Baghdad? All of this Monday morning quarterbacking is just an attempt to detract from an amazing victory, which was accomplished with minimal loss of life for us and the civilian population.
People just think they are because Clinton and his croniies misapplied and misused the military for 8 years.
Bagdad is a city the size of LA we simply can not be everywhere to safeguard everything.
Prevented by whom? You seem to be quite sure that all the 'treasures' were stolen in the past few weeks.