The museum sacking that wasn't

Townhall.com ^ | May 27, 2003 | Rich Lowry

[Theresa]

Pinging you on my previous comments.

[Fifth Business]

Grampa Dave has noted for a long time: "Anyone who posts a NY Slimes, Washinton Compost, LA Slimes, Reuters, CNN, CBS, Reuters or AFP article that takes a swipe at GW or GW's Administration and goes tsk, tsk, is not a conservative. They may call themselves that. But they aren't!"

Fair and Balanced news sources were reporting the same thing, while diminishing the significance of the loss. That's where some of us disagree. As others on this thread have stated, the antiquities in that museum are not just potsherds and beads. While the totality of the losses have yet to be delimited, it appears, happily, that they are dramatically less than originally reported. Some of us rejoice in that. Like you, we also rejoice that the Bush administration's grievous oversight will not have political ramifications. But that is secondary.

[Fifth Business]

ping to previous post

[BOBTHENAILER]

http://www.quicken.com/investments/news_center/article/printer.dcg?story=NewsStory/dowJones/20030528/ON200305280037000022.var

The above link comes from Drudge and speaks to the REAL potential saving grace for the newly liberated Iraqi people. Any thinking person knows the Iraqi oil exports are the single sole bailout for an economy ravaged by 30 years of a brutal thieving dictatorship.

As to your comments about the looting which you state that the military was not concerned with, I would offer this. Contemplate the assault on a city the size of LA, with various Ministries necessary for either destruction or occupation. Health, hospitals, defense, local and regional police offices, Baath Party Headquarters (several), munitions storage and dumps, missile, artillery, tank and APC emplacements, leadership bunkers, banks, troop concentrations, electricity infrastructure, water facilitiees, food storage, numerous palaces, Baghdad Airport, fuel storage facilites, Ministry of Oil & Gas, just to name a few.

Now contemplate that city of 6 million residents with probably a minimum of several hundred thousand males armed with AK-47s, hand grenades, rocket propelled grenades and even more powerful weapons, most of whom initially sought to kill American military personnel, and you might begin to understand why the Museum was not of premier importance. Give me and our wonderful military a break. Reports are now the "looting of artifacts" happened prior to our entry into Baghdad, so your arguments are largely specious, and particularly ridiculous given the magnitutde of the tactical situation faced by our Commanders on the ground whose troops you ask to do the guarding of the artifacts.

I think they were a little busy at the time.

[Milligan]

Now the dust is settling down at the Baghdad Museum, the reporters need a new hot story. They are going out to the archaeological sites being looted by it's own citizens. Please read E.L Andrew's article, "Iraqi Looters Tearing Up Archaeological Sites," from... the New York Times. More exaggerations and misquotes? The NYT already booted out two reporters for misrepresenting the truth. Will Mr. Andrews be next?

[SunkenCiv]

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