Posted on 04/22/2003 4:54:43 AM PDT by Beenliedto
There is a lot of stuff that didn't get broken that could have, Especially in the rterms of lives and property. The Left can't get over the successes of the operation so they magnify what happened to some artifacts.
ROTFLOL. That is not likely to happen and just as well.
I'm talking about SAVING them, I'm talking about the CHANCE of them LOSING THEIR LIVES!
Reasonable people should feel sorry for our mistake
Thata boy..BLAME AMERICA, FIRST, huh?
the commanders ignored the cultural advisors requests/orders
Yeah, I'm certainly happy when our battlefield commanders take ORDERS from Cultural Advisors.
When you're chasing a MASS MURDERER IN A CHINA SHOP, YOU DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE GLASSWARE!
Heads MUST roll in the military pecking order.
So, you're all for ruining the careers of the people that PROTECT US, because a few dishes were broken/stolen? LOL.
I agree completely. If our soldiers looted the museum, I'd be outraged. The fact that the Iraqis did it, tells me that the west seems to have more respect for Iraqi culture than the Iraqis themselves. As I've said before, the Japanese never looted their musuems after WWII, neither the Germans.
Yet here it is at the end of the war and the only bad thing that the anti-war types have to hang their hat on is the looting of some museum.
In that respect, this was the most successful war in the history of the United States of America.
I've been in the military for some time now and I was never aware that cultural advisors were in the chain of command.
Concerning Hannity, I wish there was someone else I could listen to on my drive home from DC in the afternoon. He is such a bore and is historically ignorant.
I guess that excludes you!
I love watching the leftist and paleocon tweedledumb and tweedledumbers try to gracefully tapdance a reteat from the muddy quagmire of their doom-and-gloom predictions. Bush/Rumsfeld/Franks/Perle showed Reese up as a utterly malinformed idiot about the war, and so Reese is left complaining about the looting of Iraqi museums by Iraqis as if that were the central issue.
Along the same lines, anyday now we can expect the Naderites to gravely announce that some species of intestinal parasite native to Iraq has been pushed to the brink of extinction by brutal and indiscriminate coalition military forces.
Just acknowledge you were wrong, Reese. Show some humility and grace.
But they're ENTITLED to them. Being so much more cultured than us Philistines, you know. If we went to a museum, it would only be to gawk. We can't APPRECIATE those things like they can. Besides, they'll take better care of them, too.
Obviously, the commanders in Washington failed to stress protection of certain sensitive cultural areas.
If the Soldiers are in the neighborhood any way, and the Iraqis are aware of their firing power, all it would have taken is one soldier firing in the air, and the looting would have stopped. But noooo, we have to deny that our brass made a terrible mistake despite of the specific warning from the cultural advisor to the president.
That was my first thought too. Maybe after 20 some odd years of living under saddam, the Iraqi people are not capable of self-governing? Where were the local immams? They could have issued a fatwa-- (or do they only issue those for the killing of "infidels"?)
What a jackass. In every war that results in occupation except wars of liberation, the museums, palaces, etc. are looted--in all cases by the invading force (see plunder). I cannot recall a case where it happened in a war of liberation (except in the movies).
When the national museum was plundered, the coalition forces were still engaged in active military operations and charged with humanitarian defense, defense of vital and finctioning infrastructure and security of weapons caches, prisoners of war and surrendering forces. Unfortunately, when the coalition forces liberated Iraq, there were a number of criminals among the liberated (recall that Saddam furloughed most of the criminals prior to the onset of the war).
To expect the liberating forces to be able to step immediately into the role of property guardian for all property of any importance in an instant is naive and unrealistic. Rather, the coalition forces were following strict rules of engagement and prioritizing their activities in a manner that maximized the operation's success and minimized civilian casualties and interruption of vital services.
Leave it to jerks like this guy to seize on an admittedly unfortunate aspect of an otherwise overwhelmingly successful operation that released an enslaved people from a terrible regime and made more secure all people threatened by a known sponsor of terror.
This guy betrays himself in a number of places with the "Bush-is-stupid" mantra (I just pray to God for a non-ideologue with a three-digit IQ).
And here is my favorite:
Let me spell it out for the mentally impaired: People are anti-war because they do not wish to see anyone die — our soldiers, their soldiers, our civilians or their civilians. Anti-war is pro-life.
What does this jackass think was going on before the coalition forces went in? Bad guys were killing innocent civilians, threatening to do the same to neighboring peoples and sponsoring terrorists who would do the same.
I thought this guy retired?
Anyway, he thinks the Palestinian bombing of school buses and coffee shops is a legitimate "war" effort, so his sudden giving a crap about a stinking museum is to be taken with a grain of salt. Laughed off, in fact.
Reese has admitted in the past that he has been a loyal Democrat most of his life, even if there were ample signs of shame and lucidity during the Clinton years.
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