I agree the rationale for the invasion was a lie, but I'm missing the connection with the looting of the museum. It wasn't the U.S. invaders who dunnit:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/monument-sidebar.html http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/monument-sidebar.html https://www.stanford.edu/group/chr/drupal/ref/the-2003-looting-of-the-iraq-national-museum https://www.stanford.edu/group/chr/drupal/ref/the-2003-looting-of-the-iraq-national-museum The early reporting was sensationalized and wildly exaggerated. Not that it wasn't a catastrophe for the museum, but it wasn't as bad as at first thought. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: "...the "cultural loss" I was referring to was the looting of the Iraqi National Museum during the 2003 invasion..." I recall during that time - despite all of the national rhetoric and will, being at its peak, with everybody screaming to save Iraq from itself - when I heard that their national museum had been looted, I knew without a doubt that it was all a lie. Similar to our 'liberation' of Afghanistan, with its now flourishing more than ever, opium trade.
