[FairOpinion]

Will this misleading story never die?

Note the headline Reuters gave it, which is not supported by this and even any of the most slanted articles.

Also remember, that is the news the Arab world reads, they don't get the Wall Street Journal, which told the truth and debunked all these accusations.

I guess, one answer to "Why do they hate us?" is that the liberal and Arab press lies about us.

Note that even in this articles they admit that the theft was perpetrated by professional thieves, who had keystothe valuts, not "random looters",

[jagrmeister]

Civillian casualties kept to a minimum.

Soldiers casualties kept to a minimum.

No use of chemical/biological weapons.

No truth to prediction of bloody urban/guerilla warfare.

No truth to prediction of protracted ground warfare that would consume the lives of tens of thousands.

No quagmire like Vietnam.

No terrorist attacks on US soil.
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The fact that we went through that grisly and unpredictable thing called WAR and we are wringing our hands about the fate of a museum tells me that things went very, very well.

[konaice]

They seem to gloss over the fact that this "crime" was committed by Muslim/Arabs upon other Muslim/Arabs.
(In fact they seem to expect this).

Why is muslim on muslim crime OUR problem?

[isrul]

Crime of the century? A little early for that. Check back in 97 years for an update.

[dpwiener]

The Twenty-First century is still rather young (technically only a little over two years old). So if this had turned out to be the worst "crime of the century", I'd say we were living in a relatively benign century.

Unfortunately that's not the case. We've already had 9/11. Then again, what's 3,000 dead in a terrorist attack compared to some broken and stolen antiquities from the Iraqi museum?

Obviously we Americans need to get our priorities straight.

[nopardons]

OMG ... yet MORE stinking lies and propaganda.

Realistically speaking, it's the ONLT thing that they can think up, now, to keep trashing America with, since the Iraqis didn't fight us, throw fits that we won, and toppled ( with our help ) Saddam's statues.

[noutopia]

Arabs,Did this to fellow muslums. What a shame.

[goldstategop]

That really trivializes a serious crime. The world's more outraged over a few pieces of broken pottery than of all the human being Saddam Hussein murdered, maimed, and tortured in his decades in power. We're not the party that should be sitting in the dock. Saddam and all the people who helped and abetted him to remain in power should be. Theirs in the crime of the century.

[scott7278]

We're only three years into the century! Geez! :)

[Publius6961]

Reuters?

Dubai?

Is the Muslim Mass Murderers Arabprop Tag Team back in business?

[djf]

Hey, the century's only 1,204 days old. Lots can happen.

I get so sick of these idgits using vernacular like this. The only result is that now, evey single time I read a headline, I have to think "What is this person's real motive? Where are they coming from?"
I wish these fools could (metaphorically) one day trade places with Laci's parents, or with some people in Cuba, or Rwanda, or... the list goes on.

And it doesn't include a bunch of whiners who get paid for digging up old stuff.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Professional looting of a museum is the cultural "crime of the century"?   How about this:

Scars, Mutilation Document Hussein Regime's Torture
 

[RightOnline]

"I would say it's the crime of the century because it is really affecting the heritage of mankind," said the head of the National Archaeo-logical Museum in Baghdad, Donny George."

Yeah gee golly, Donny boy, you're right. Why, compared to the theft of some old stuff from a bankrupt culture, the Holocaust or, even closer to home, the butchering of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis by their own leader just pale.

[zygoat]

We saved the oil that will rebuild their country. Oil is the antiquity that will feed them, not some clay pot or sand tablet inscribed with old Islamic lies.

[GailA]

But the head of President U.S. George W. Bush's cultural advisory committee has already stepped down in protest at the American failure to prevent the "tragedy."

A slick willie appointee according to my local Memphis talk host yesterday.

Also in the last paragraph of the article about the $650M cache find The Central Bank -- a burned-out shell of a building -- is believed to hold some of the most precious items in Iraq: ancient gold artifacts from the National Museum placed in the bank's vaults for safekeeping before the war.

[Publius6961]

BUMP!