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I haven't read this guy in some time. I would like to know why he has such a visceral hatred of George Bush. He has managed to roll into several columns every stupid comment I have heard from the left wing over the last 3 years, such as the LIE that Bush brags about not reading books.

He is also apparently unable to read current wire reports, statements by archaeological and museum experts, and the Wall Street Journal, all of whom have pointed out that there is a very real possibility that this was an inside job done under cover of the looting.

#13...Don't even bother to get your ire up over this hasbeen!

He's a vicous, meanspirited nobody who thinks he has something worthwhile to say.

If you've seen him lately, you will see his body reflects the sour, overindulged person he has become.

He's repulsive!!

Even if the theft were not an inside job, (which it now appears that it was), why is it the reponsibility of the US military to protect and defend the heritage of the Iraqi people? After WWII, the Japanese people didn't loot their museums, neither did the Germans. The US military was working securing the future of the Iraqi people. It should have been up to the Iraqi people to respect and defend their own heritage.

"visceral hatred"

This post and responses are a wee bit curious, considering how many in the world actually had access to this museum, or even knew it existed.

Amazing that plunders and looters with keys to a place, gets lost in the whole picture.

So little attention paid to LBJ and Clintons when they plundered and looted the museums of our own history.

Guess it depends on age of the loot that gets ones ire up.

This author managed to succeed in mudding the waters, by in his view, taking on a response on a particular day by Hannity, which in fact did bring out the soreheads who had no words of condemnation for our previous professional looters of our very own history.

How many Americans even knew that there was a museum there that laid out the history of "mankind"? There have been far older discoveries of artifacts found in China.

There hasn't even been an accounting of what was taken, what is lost and all the focus is on "the military" not protecting artifacts that most people didn't even know existed.

These artifacts didn't belong to us or even a part of our nation except a couple of paragraphs in history books.

The biggest difference in Liberals/socialist and conservatives is that conservatives eat their own, and can't wait for the opportunity for a liberal to give them fresh meat.

Germany has in its Berlin Pergamon Museum the old restored Ishtar Gate of Babylon, Iraq asked Germany to get it back a year ago May. They also have a restored cuneiform tablet stating the builder of the gate was Nebuchadnezzar. This museum has a listing of the months of the Babylonian calendar. Who knows what else is stashed around the world in private hands and basements of museums.

This tid bit is left out by the soreheads proclaiming all is lost.

Charlie Reese has a habit of being blinded by his current focus of irritation - though from time to time he recognizes this. He voted for Bill Clinton the first time around, because he was so upset that GWHB compromised with the Dems and allowed the tax increase. It was about ahlf a year into Clintons first term before he figured out he might have made a mistake.

such as the LIE that Bush brags about not reading books.

He may not brag but he does joke about it sometimes. :)

"And I see Bill Buckley's here tonight, a fellow Yale man. We go way back, and have a lot in common. Bill wrote a book at Yale. I read one. " - GWB at 2000 Al Smith banquet