[scooby321]

Gezz these people planned on re selling the stuff to the US

[Retrofire]

"Most of the things were removed. We knew a war was coming, so it was our duty to protect everything," Mr. George said. "We thought there would be some sort of bombing at the museum. We never thought it could be looted."

Interesting that the freaking guy in charge never thought the museum would be looted, but damn if the world can't point the finger at the U.S. military for not thinking of it.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this fair balanced look at the so called looting of the Baghdad museum.

[Night Hides Not]

I wonder how many items have shown up on E-Bay?

[js1138]

So the NYTimes lied again. Obviously, some people with inside connections (keys) walked off with some pieces that could easily be liquidated, and did some damage to make it look like random looting.

The next question is, if the museum directors were prepared for bombing, how much of the really valuable stuff was accessible to looters?

[Howlin]

Bump bump bump!

[Grampa Dave]

You might want to book mark this great article posted by Troutstalker.

This is rebuttal to the professional hate President Bushers who claim to be so conservative on Free Republic.

[Argus]

Paging Robert Fisk. Your crying towel is dry now and ready for re-use.

[Billthedrill]

They'd have had to use a semi to move the Assyrian bulls anyhow - those were the statues on either side of a three-storey gate at Nineveh.

[Grampa Dave]

Please take a minute to read this great WSJ article posted by Trout Stalker which shows that the claim that we allowed the museum to be plundered is a Lack of Gravitas Rerun.

[aristeides]

Iraq shields ancient treasures from high-tech war.

[ladyjane]

Don't let Theresa or the physicist hear about this!

[aristeides]

Experts: Looters Had Keys to Iraqi Vaults .

[jriemer]

As fast as this story is rewinding, in a few days it may be said that the musuem looting never occured, move along...

[rageaholic]

If Hussein's palaces weren't so tacky, I'd presume he and his family looted the museums over the past decade. As it stands, I don't mind their museum was looted. Irak and Muslims need to forget their toxic past of tribal fueds. They need to get with the program, their historic memory needs to be replaced with Burger King and MTV.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Time to eat crow, CHUMP!!

[aristeides]

Among the antiquities unaccounted for so far, Mr. George said, are the sacral vase of Warqa, from Sumerian times, and the bronze statue of Basitqi, from the Accadian civilization.

Google search on "basitqi" turns up nothing. "Warqa vase" does turn up at a couple of sites.

[PoisedWoman]

Donny George is hardly an Iraqi name. Where did they get him?

[Hanging Chad]

Is this what you were talking about on the other thread?
(I think it was you, if not, I'm sorry.)

[PhilDragoo]

Lt. Col. Schwartz, whose functions also include feeding the lions in the abandoned Baghdad Zoo next door, said he couldn't move into the museum compound and protect it from looters last week because his soldiers were taking fire from the building -- and were determined not to respond. There is an Iraqi army trench in the museum's front lawn, and Lt. Col. Schwartz said his troops found many Iraqi army uniforms inside. "If there is any dirty trick in the book," he said, "they sure used it."

NYT and the alphabetnet continue to try to foist the Big Lie of looting--when it's more the Mogadishu template: U.S. removes tyrant starving citizens, so tyrant hides behind citizens to shoot at U.S.

For NYT and the alphabetnet America, Bush and the troops are ALWAYS wrong, their question at press conferences and in their "news" is ALWAYS "Why hasn't Bush quit beating his wife!"

Kudos to WSJ and Fox for the balanced report.

The Leftist propaganda machine is in effect criticizing the dead firemen and police in the WTC for failing to rescue "millions of irreplaceable files".

It's a war of liberation and we and the Iraqis are victorious.

The Left is losing--and it turns their red faces purple.