Rage triggered by US raid that claimed five lives

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Mindfish

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MadWoffen said:
Ho yes, one of the tiny nation of the coalition, Denmark, seems ready to pull-out. The Danish (but US appointed) administrator of Bassrah resigned yesterday claiming the US is not giving him the means to achieve any kind of administration.
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No, we're not. Yes, the Basra administrator is leaving, but at the same time we're sending 12 specialists to help rebuilding efforts. And we're also sending a police chief to help rebuild the police force in the Basra province.
 
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Kaoh said:
About the stealing: Not to mention most of the archeological treasures mysteriously being recovered by us costums... dont know who where there that went home after the war, excpet the soldiers.
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:lol: - How many, of those under 50 or so artifacts that actually are missing? I seem to remember one single case of seizings by US customs. Maybe two.

Since this seems to be the credible source of choice here (I read about it in a local newspaper a month or so ago myself):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,974193,00.html

So, there's the picture: 100,000-plus priceless items looted either under the very noses of the Yanks, or by the Yanks themselves. And the only problem with it is that it's nonsense. It isn't true. It's made up. It's bollocks.

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Cruikshank [an investigating historian] also tackled George [the Baghdad Museum's director of research] directly on events leading up to the looting. The Americans had said that the museum was a substantial point of Iraqi resistance, and this explained their reticence in occupying it. Not true, said George, a few militia-men had fired from the grounds and that was all. This, as Cruikshank heavily implied, was a lie. Not only were there firing positions in the grounds, but at the back of the museum there was a room that seemed to have been used as a military command post. And it was hardly credible that senior staff at the museum would not have known that. Cruikshank's closing thought was to wonder whether the museum's senior staff - all Ba'ath party appointees - could safely be left in post.

Furious, I conclude two things from all this. The first is the credulousness of many western academics and others who cannot conceive that a plausible and intelligent fellow-professional might have been an apparatchiks of a fascist regime and a propagandist for his own past. The second is that - these days - you cannot say anything too bad about the Yanks and not be believed.
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But you never bother reading that stuff, right? What for, anyway? - The truth is only fun when it serves your bizzarre preconceptions.
 
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Kaoh

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Wolf Being said:
The truth is only fun when it serves your bizzarre preconceptions.
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Indeed. Directing this statement back to you there.

I am not even sure what truth you are trying to show me there, you mean to say that NO items where stolen and later recovered by US costums?

cause except the: 'And the only problem with it is that it's nonsense. It isn't true. It's made up. It's bollocks.' I see no counter for the original statement.
And its a fact that many items where recovered by the costums.
 
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