Loss Estimates Are Cut on Iraqi Artifacts

The New York Times ^ | 5/1/03 | Alan Riding

[flying Elvis]

I suppose the idiot in Washington who resigned his job over the alleged looting is feeling a bit sheepish today. :)

[Wright is right!]

What's REALLY amazing is that the NYTimes actually reported this story, which is precisely the kind they would usually not print. By the virtue of the story's appearance in the NYTimes, it also then was on all the wires - which means that a lot of local papers picked it up. It was on page A-6 of our local rag today.

Michael

[mass55th]

And there were those on this thread...

Should read: And there were those on this site (FR)...

[Lauratealeaf]

You are going to love this museum update.Unbelievable!

Thanks so much for the ping. Only 25 antiquities missing now? That's wonderful!

[cyncooper]

Thanks to the link on the Daily Situation Room thread I am reading this.

Well, well, well. Just as some of us surmised.

[ewing]

This is ubeliveable!!

[windchime]

"There are MANY more than 29 stolen artworks hanging in the Louvre, thanks to Napoleon."

Yeah, but they haven't figured out how that can make the US look bad!:)

[Flyer]

I will be watching the network news this evening to catch this as the lead story.

Yeah, right.

[windchime]

"I just want facts 'Mam, just the facts. That's the facts on the artifacts."

Looks like the facts have been rather elusive on the artifacts.

[windchime]

"I suppose the idiot in Washington who resigned his job over the alleged looting is feeling a bit sheepish today."

If he was an X42 hold-over.........just fine w/me! :)

[windchime]

"What's REALLY amazing is that the NYTimes actually reported this story..."


That IS amazing, but note that they tempered it with "but questions remain".

[windchime]

"This is ubeliveable!!"

Yes. The story AND the source.

[windchime]

"I will be watching the network news this evening to catch this as the lead story. Yeah, right."

This does pose a problem for the networks because they pull a lot of their material from the NYT. Might be interesting to see how they dodge the story.

[Lauratealeaf]

Thanks to the link on the Daily Situation Room thread I am reading this.

Well, well, well. Just as some of us surmised.

You are right. It surprises me that those who were so upset about the "looting" aren't on this thread jumping for joy. What is up with that?

[FairOpinion]

More crow to be served to liberals, who were keeping the news of "looting" and "it's all the fault of the US troops for not preventing it" on the front pages for at least a week or more, to avoid talking about our great victory and success in Iraq.

[Coop]

How can we expect our troops to guard the museum when they're bogged down outside the city?

[windchime]

"......on the front pages for at least a week or more, to avoid talking about our great victory and success"

We can trust they won't keep this story alive, if they mention it at all. Fox reported early this morning, but I haven't heard it again.

It would be interesting to monitor the other networks to see if they cover the new information.

[RightWhale]

I showed this article to several here. They simply can't read. They say "170,000? They're going to milk us for everything they can." Stuff like that. I suspect that is the problem with many people and why the Liberals have any success at all. Most people can't read for comprehension.

[FairOpinion]

And just to remind everyone:

April 17, 2003
White House Art Advisors Quit To Protest Looting of Baghdad Museum
http://www.wset.com/showstory.hrb?f=n&s=83638&f1=nat

Washington (AP) - Three members of the White House Cultural Property Advisory Committee have resigned to protest the looting of Baghdad's National Museum of Antiquities.

Michael E. Sullivan, Richard S. Lanier and Gary Vikan each said they were disappointed by the U.S. military's failure to protect Iraq's historical artifacts.

"The tragedy was not prevented, due to our nation's inaction," Sullivan, the committee's chairman, wrote in his letter of resignation.

Noting that American scholars had told the State Department about the location of Iraqi museums and historic sites in Iraq, he said the president "is burdened by a compelling moral obligation to plan for and try to prevent indiscriminate looting and destruction."

Lanier criticized "the administration's total lack of sensitivity and forethought regarding the Iraq invasion and the loss of cultural treasures."

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Do we have any crow left for these people?

[FairOpinion]

The liberal achieved their objective, they used this bogus looting story, to avoid talking about our great victory, when it happened.

But the truth eventually came out, our victory still stands, so the liberals have to try to find something else to whine about.