[WaveThatFlag]

I love how all the media sources that hate George Bush/America have conveniently forgotten about the quagmire and are now fixated on the looting. See for yourself on TV: For the most part these people are looting garbage. Everywhere are pictures of ragged Iraqis carting off cheap crap. Office chairs, old computers. Doors. Wire. Garbage.

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[sarasota]

Wish I had taped Rummy's conversation with Tim Russert yesterday when Timbo asked him how our military "allowed" the Iraqis to loot the museum. Don was brilliant and kept pressing with the word "allowed? It just happened" Russert was so desperately trying to get his foot out of his mouth...

[Hodar]

When mobs in Baghdad entered the Iraqi national museum and destroyed the artifacts, little did they know that they were wiping out large traces of history.

And as we all know, this is the USA's fault. However, when these same unwashed, uneducated muslums used cannons to blow up statues that were over 2,000 years old; that was because they were an affront to Allah. Strange,isn't it that these statues didn't bother Allah for the thousands of years they stood before they were blown up.

[Bluntpoint]

The complete set of "Sex with Goats" has been destroyed. Volumes I thru XXXXII

[ffusco]

That's a shame. (who cares)

[1Old Pro]

Maybe they should have cared more about their own history and STOPPED Saddam from taking power.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Large traces of Iraqi, world history wiped out

Like the rape rooms and prisons for children?

[CedarDave]

Looting is a good way to make money. What do you want to bet that many of the pieces will be ransomed back to the museum? Of course, others may well end up in the hands of private collectors in Europe and maybe the US.

[sinkspur]

"We know people are hungry but what are they going to do with these antiquities,"

E-Bay.

Seriously, these goofy people think the military is going to high-tail it to protect a friggin' museum when they're getting shot at?

[mass55th]

Jeeze Al, did you guys care enough to write about Kuwait's antiquities being looted during the Gulf War? Probably not.

[OldFriend]

Like most libs, they never seem to blame the perpetrator, but some other entity is always at fault. This is no different. If the Iraqi's looted their own history, shame on them.

Not one of our military ought to die for a trace of history. Lives, yes........shards, NO.

[chachacha]

Which History?

The bad or the worse!

[cloud8]

"When mobs in Baghdad entered the Iraqi national museum and destroyed the artifacts, little did they know that they were wiping out large traces of history..."

Oh relax. They can get it all back on ebay. </sarcasm>

[vetvetdoug]

How is it that a population with a religion that is so willing to die for a Jihad and practice religion so fervently is so willing to steal that which does not belong to them? I think the moslem population is riddled with hypocrits and ignorant ragheads that have no honor or faith.

[OneRatToGo]

Actually the traces of history still remain. It's now in the hands of the Iraqi people. They're just keeping it safe until the bands of American invaders leave. [/sarcasm off]

[Natural Law]

This assumes that the pillaged art and historical treasures were actually destroyed. This is an assumption I am not willing to accept. Anything of value will ultimately surface in an impoverished society. Given time and a few incentives the antiquities will return.

[annieokie]

Hey "Nabhal Amin"

IT'S JUST STUFF. THEY SKY IS NOT FALLING. WORTHLESS STUFF.

[Daus]

Just because the state run Museum no longer has it, doesn't mean it was destroyed. Think on it as 're-distribution of wealth'. Maybe even a just one, since most of these artifacts were probably claimed at gun point.

[mtbopfuyn]

We know people are hungry but what are they going to do with these antiquities," said Muhsen Kadhim, a museum guard for the last 30 years but who said he was overwhelmed by the number of looters

I'm into history more than the average Joe and yes it's a shame about the damage but we were over there fighting a WAR. Getting water and electricity going, and bringing in food and medical supplies comes before gold cups. Poor ol' Kadhim couldn't get outta his cushy chair he's been guarding for the past 3 decades to ask sobbing Nabbie for $5 out of petty cash to buy a gun. In another article it refered to some of those vaults as "secret vaults" which casts suspicion on the identity of some of the "looters". Nabbie knew for months her precious treasures might be harmed in a war so SHE should have shipped them away for safe keeping instead of blaming us. Besides, those treasures will eventually turn up on the black market or likely at some local street market or even be brought back. We did protect the museum; it wasn't bombed.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Large traces of Iraqi, world history wiped out

On the bright side, "new" history is being created every day.