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If the museum was so important, why weren't you and every other big mouth telling us how important it was before the war started?
If the museum was so important, why didn't the Iraqi's empty it and secure their treasures in one of the impregnable underground bunkers we heard so much about?
If the museum was so important, why wasn't it emptied and the contents sent to Syria for safeguarding along with Iraq's WMD?
If the museum was so important, why didn't the human shields prevent it from being looted?
If the museum was so important why didn't Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Schroeder, Vladimir Putin, and Kofi Annan mention it prior to the war's start?
If the museum was so important, the disgrace is on Iraq for failing to safeguard one of mankind's most significant cultural treasures. Our job is to secure Iraq's infrastructure, the lives of American boys, and the lives of ordinary Iraqi's.
If Clinton had been President, we would've secured the museum and lost 18 men doing it, or we would've secured the museum and left Jessica Lynch behind. Our military is no longer the world's rent-a-cop.
In reality, the museum wasn't that important otherwise it would have been taken care of prior to the start of the war. The museum is important in retrospect. A pity that you, and the rest of the world, didn't think it was important before our troops entered Baghdad.
If Clinton were President, we'd have invaded Israel, looted their museum ourselves, and the leftist presstitutes would not have said a word.