33 eh?

Hopefully thats 33 statues of Madas Husain

At about the same time as Donny George was (as late as June) bemoaning the loss of 170000 pieces, another museum official - a working-stiff one, not a politico - showed a reporter around the museum. It was reported that every time the reporter pointed to an empty plinth or case, she would smile and say only "That is safe." Bt that, of course, was not a bad-news story and got buried until now...

Sorry Folks,

This story was like a fish or batch of relatives over for a visit. After a few days it really bagan to smell bad. Who, amoung the people with their eyes open, didn't see this coming?

I hate to say it, actually I don't come to think of it, but the America is the root of all evil crowd looks pretty foolish. Their story of how this was yet another American failure just didn't wash. These people need to look in the mirror and see themselves for what they really are. Think that will happen? I'm not holding my breath.

The sad thing is that the impression is going to be left in a lot of people's minds that the Museum was looted and that the Americans stood by doing nothing to prevent thousands of years of Iraqi history be destroyed.

Those of us who are "Iraqi News Junkies" have been following the Museum story. Unfortunately most people haven't. Further, there is not as much hoopla over the artifacts NOT being looted as the furor over those terrible Americans destroying civilization. Thus the negative will stick in people's minds not the Truth.

Belle,

I fear that you could be right, or if you prefer, correct.:-)

Insta-Gator - Forget the nic thingy. I'm over it. Belle, however, is another story. There's a slight hint in her first sentence - she used the word 'left'. Were you leapin' to conclusions, or simply givin' her the benefit of the doubt? I could put this a different way - You WERE givin' her the benefit of the doubt, RIGHT?

IMO the American and Western European Left has evolved very little since the 1930s. They still countenance totalitarianism, refuse to admit to atrocities such as mass murder by Stalin and Saddam, promulgate grotesque fictional propaganda (such as the loss of museum treasures due to the dumb U.S. military/administration). The danger to democratic freedoms as we know them is much greater than most of us realize. I have reluctantly come to understand we are historically poised on a razor's edge, and if we fall the wrong way there will be no recovery....it'll be Leftist Big Brother for a long, long time.

Here's a scary, but edifying, thought:

Alexander Hamilton, in the third federalist paper noted (and I'm paraphrasing) that those that were most vocal about individual rights were indeed actually only demagogues, and interested in only those rights insofar as it applied to their own power. He notes that those people have brought down many, many governments throughtout history.

Amazing that educated men 225 years ago could in a single paragraph predict so much of what is wrong with our nation today.

The really sad thing here is that this was quietly reported 3 weeks before it appeared in many newspapers --- as if the media didn't want to admit their incredible mistake until far enough into the phase of post "major-operations-in-Iraq"

RG
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