[windchime]

Looks like Baghdad Bob was conveying the news from the museum.

[mewzilla]

The fact that the museum staff was trained to stash this stuff is old news. FOX reported it weeks ago. See the Times is still a day late and dollar short, when they bother to report at all...

[MEG33]

I don't know if you were on some of the threads about this but this is a stunning change(except for the US bashing). 29 or 170,000 pieces,what's a few zeros when the blame America crowd gets going?

[dawn53]

"The difficulty in determining what is missing is compounded by the lack of a master list of the museum's collection."

I read a wonderful Mark Steyn piece earlier in the week. His question to the world was this: "Why was Saddam's evil regime entrusted with this stuff in the first place?"

Here's a link to that piece. It was an excellent read.


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/902303/posts

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Journalism be damned!

We've got a quagmire to find!

There was no plan to protect artifacts!

We don't need no steeenkin' facts!

We distort, you decide!

[MEG33]

This will interest you about artifact looting.Good news

[livius]

29!!!! LOL! Well, let's see if this story gets as much play as the 170,000 number generated by the liberal Magic 8 Ball.

[You Dirty Rats]

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

[azhenfud]

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

[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

[ewing]

This is ubeliveable!!

[Flyer]

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

Yeah, right.

[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.

[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."

---

Do we have any crow left for these people?

[DannyTN]

Between Baghdad Bob's straight delivery and the Museum director's anquished cry's, I think Baghdad might be a candidate for the Arab world's hollywood.