Raiders of the Lost Art
Why didn't we protect the National Museum and Library in Baghdad?
By Meghan O'Rourke
Posted Thursday, April 17, 2003, at 4:28 PM PT
The Bush administration and the military have made it sound as though
the extensive looting of three major Iraqi cultural institutions in
Baghdad this past weekend was not foreseeable. At a Centcom briefing
April 15, U.S. Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks said, "I don't think anyone
anticipated that the riches of Iraq would be looted by the people of
Iraq." But in fact the administration had reason to suspect that this
looting would happen.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2081647/
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