Comment: America will pay for lost treasures (barforama)

http://www.mysanantonio.com/ ^ | 04/20/2003 | Bryce Milligan

[Free ThinkerNY]

If our troops had shot and killed some of the looters, the Left would have called them war criminals. It's the same as in this country when they cry about police brutality. If the police ignore drug dealing in the ghetto, they are racists who don't care about minority lives. If the police crack down on drug dealing and the prisons are filled, they are racists who want to commit genocide against a generation of young black men. You can't win, no matter what you do. Damned if you do. Damned if you don't. Liberalism is a form of mental illness.

[chasio649]

bingo!

[sauropod]

I would go further than that. It is a chronic childhood disease!

[mathurine]

Churchill reputedly once said this was the sort of person who gave pedastry a bad name. Well, this is the sort of person who gives liberals a bad name. Why would any American, Republican, Democrat or faggot suppose that the Iraqi response to freedom would be to loot their national patrimony? Why would or should we care if they did? These people are proving over and over in the twentieth and twenty-first century that they are ensconced in about the 12th century. Not our fault. Not our concern. Stupid is as stupid does, and the Arabs certainly have copyrighted the text on stupid. As to the artifacts, the sooner they are exported, the better. We have nice museums here which are pleasant to visit, easily accessible, and all. Hope this post inflames some bleeding hearts.

[Happygal]

Ummm...hell yeah! *LOL*

Me and Ivan were thinkin'. If we do a tour of America, we could manage to eat with all our Freerepublic friends without having to spring for a meal. Of course, if ANY Freeper friend comes to either London or Wexford, Ireland...they won't be short of bed nor nourishment! :-)

[Happygal]

Ever hear of kiddie taxes?

BTW, what are kiddie taxes? Sounds like something the Chinese would implement!

[aculeus]

This was a professional inside job. The loot is on its way to the favorite city for selling stolen art: Paris.

[Rasputin_TheMadMonk]

Alright, FINE!

Who wants to take up a collection to send the little Iraqi children over there some plaster of paris and a few nice disney molds so they can replace those priceless treasures?

Much more of this and I'm afraid I'll lose all respect for the left. DAMN, too late......

[sauropod]

Consider thy hometown notched on the bedpost...

[sauropod]

Love it! Of course the Wash. Pest. will cry a river....

[lawdude]

I got a quarter. Stick it up your a** and pull out the balance!

[kcvl]

About Bryce Milligan : Born in Dallas, Texas, Bryce Milligan has lived in San Antonio since 1977. Among other things, he has been a folksinger/songwriter, a maker of guitars, drums and dulcimers, a carpenter, a rare book bibliographer and appraiser, a college English and creative writing instructor, a poet-in-the-schools, director of the country's only 4-year high school creative writing program,. an arts administrator, a book and magazine editor, a book designer, and a publisher. As a writer, he has been a newspaper columnist, a freelance journalist, a scholar, a novelist, a poet, a playwright, and an essayist. It has been an interesting life.

Bryce Milligan

milligan@wingspress.com

[kcvl]

Milligan founded Pax: A Journal for Peace through Culture

[hellinahandcart]

Does the carpet match the curtains?

Thought you said you were looking for your cut, dear...

[snickeroon]

What is it with these blithering, blathering, bleeding heart, loser libs? If they were so damned worried about these cultural treasures, then maybe they should have gotten up off THEIR collective rear-ends and seen they were protected. WHAT are they going to find to carp about next week? They keep coming up with issues hoping one will fan the flame of outrage. But, for every looter ransacking -history as we knew it- in Baghdad, an example can be found of a nearby locale where some priceless archeological find was wiped out because they needed to flood an area before it was properly excavated, or it was ransacked by uppercrust museum "curators"...etc...

When news came about the Baghdad Zoo who immediately came to the rescue with funds from their own pockets to feed the remaining animals? That would be coalition troops, and coalition countries rushing aid, including vets, medicines, etc., etc.

Story after story about the valuable artifacts being protected PRIOR to a possible conflict appeared some months ago. Therefore, either these items were properly protected and this propaganda has a more conspiratorial leaning than we have yet to consider, or this is unknown bait for an unknown quarry.

However, it is not our job, our responsibility, or our fault, if this really happened, still, DESPITE the endless whining of the lib cry babies, our nation's leaders step up to the plate to offer rewards, expertise, and any other helpful venue to help retrieve these artifacts (which supposedly were so valuable, no plan was made for their protection even after the previous Gulf war????)

My question is this....what's the REAL agenda here, and who is making all of this up? Time to call up the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew for "The Mystery of the Baghdad Booty".....or, should we go with a sequel to "Ali Babba"?

[WOSG]

jounralists had other stories of baathists who took the money and ran - literally. like the information ministry dude who collected $200,000 from the news agencies and then disappeared.

There is no doubt that baathist insiders had a hand in this museum looting job. they had the motive (greed) and the connections (keys and knowledge) that others wouldnt.

[Clemenza]

Or will I find you on your fat butt eating doughnuts like usual?

Nope. "Brythe" will be at the "Tharbucks" talking to Chad and Bruce about the new Madonna album and/or the Pottery Barn catalog.

[ladyinred]

Silly liberals.
Perhaps they would like another 911 in their own backyard. Seems they have forgotten the focus of our President to root out terrorists and those who harbor them. Perhaps because the media hasn't seemed to mention it either. (sigh)

[Swordmaker]

'Keys were used to open cabinets and locked vaults, reproductions and "fakes" were left behind; all indications of an "inside job".'

There have been numerous articles reporting this. Where has Bryce been?

Exactly WHEN were the fakes left behind... recently or during years of Saddam stealing the museum blind? Was the "wanton destruction" really so "wanton" or was it deliberate destruction to hide the fact that most of the collection was now composed of the fakes, while the real relics are cached somewhere that Saddam and his henchment knew? Piles of broken clay and dust are much harder to analyze for authenticity than complete artificial "relics."

[Swordmaker]

Here's an even better idea: Let him enlist in the United States Marine Corps.

Small problem... the USMC has standards. I don't think this idiot could meet them.