Yup.
Sporadic looting leaving how many hospitals, museum, banks etc. unlooted?
BRIT HUME (FOX NEWS): It looks bad on television, these chaotic scenes of looting. It looks like the U.S. has loosed chaos and anarchy upon a land that we were trying to save. And yet the military officers, the high command seems rather calm about it and seem disposed to let it play. What is that all about?
FMR. GENERAL MCINERNEY: Well Brit, they have their priorities focused and they’re doing a marvelous job. Their job is to get security in that city. It is not that they don’t want to stop the looting in that, but first thing’s first. And if they get tagged off on something like that, they’re going to get their people killed and it’s going to be a lot of damage to the coalition forces.
This is a natural venting. And people should understand even after a football game in the United States or something, you have this act. But these people have been repressed for 20-plus years. And so what you have is initially the jubilation, and the jubilation is rampant through there as many of us predicted it would be. And then it gets out of hand. But it gets out of hand, remember, against the regime.
@Anonymous:
This is a natural venting. …And so what you have is initially the jubilation, and the jubilation is rampant through there as many of us predicted it would be. And then it gets out of hand. But it gets out of hand, remember, against the regime.
But This is no reason to keep more forces for protecting the oil fields (which are by less reachable for the masses, as said by some here) than for protecting other parts of the infrastrucutre.
I think that the looting of the Bagdad museum was a sad, sad moment in human history. I do not understand why the US army and marines did not even try to guard it.
LOL. :P
I guess we’re going around in circles here, but it’s worth noting that it was almost impossible to decipher what artifacts had been stolen because the inventory was documented so poorly in the museum. (Hmmm….)
And…that many of the artifacts have been returned as a result of people simply wanting to safegaurd them…
in circles?
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Well, probably, you don’t mind the sporadic terror attacks targeted against the US then either
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