--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This arguement is beneath you. The specific > complaint about looting of the museum has nothing to > do with the legitimacy of the war. This is not an > either or question. One can rescue Iraqi children > and protect antiquites. That is precisely the point. > The looting was an instance of poor planning and > Rumsfeld's response an example of the callousness of > the administration.
No, it's not. WHAT DAMN LOOTING???????? 32 pieces. Most (if not all) of them probably stolen before American troops even arrived. The whole looting story was a lie. A contemptible slander made up by Ba'athist thugs and believed by people desperate to deny that - over their opposition - a great and good thing was done. Believed and spread about by people who did everything they could to protect Saddam Hussein, nothing more nor less. What this is is an example of how pathetic - how contemptible and vile - so much of the left has become. Nothing more than that. The only reason anyone is paying attention to this is as a way of attacking the liberation of Iraq. After being shown, time and time again, as credulous fools who would believe anything, anything at all, so long as it showed the United States in a bad light, we see - once again, not for the first, and not for the last time - that even here, people who trumped this up were wrong. They couldn't even scrounge up a _true_ story - they had to believe Ba'athist stooges who were covering their own tracks for inside job thefts. The only part of this argument that is beneath me is the fact that I'm wasting my time on it. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
