[browardchad]

So why no orders to do anything other than look at the looters looting?

If you don't want to read the stories, and insist on basing your claims on one quote in one obviously slanted report, there's no point continuing the conversation, except to say that, given the rotted infrastructure of the country as a whole, continued unrest from armed enemies, dangers posed to our troops by radiation, and the huge expanse of the complex in question, you might think about the necessity of setting priorities with limited resources -- which right now don't include pouring thousands of troops into Al Tuwaitha, shooting looters on site and beginning a massive toxic waste cleanup.

I think if there's one thing we underestimated about Iraq, it was the disregard for human life on a massive scale. You don't set the results of that right in a month, or even a year.

[Destro]

I did read--so while they were cutting the babrbed wire--why didn't we shoot?

[FairOpinion]

I tried too. But some people are totally immune to facts,logic and reason. As they say, some people (mostly Bush hating liberals) are capable of ignoring any amount of facts. All they care about is to blame Bush and the US troops for wahtever happens, real or manufactured ( as the museum looting of 170,000 priceless antiquities turned out to be total fabrication, but that didn't stop liberals and the liberal media from blaming the US troops on the front pages for weeks, just to detract from our major victory).

It is also intersting, just for the heck of it, I went to the World Socialist Website, and darn, if they aren't making the same points, as some people here, that first of all there are no WMDs in Iraq, and second of all, the US should have guarded them, and everything is our fault. I am sure this will sounds just like some of the posts you've been responding to in great detail, to no avail.