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Originally posted by Memalvada
The US if FAR more concerned with the reconstruction of oil facilities. How are they planning to repair all the cultural damage done by looters? How you noticed how quick the US secured the oil fields, and how they didn't give a rat's ass bout the Iraquis cultural heritage by not protecting the museums and buildings of the kind. It doesnt matter what reasons the US administration claims it went to war for... they are just after the oil. Freeing the iraqui people... weapons of mass destruction.... pigs fly....
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Damned if you aren't right! We were far more interested in trying to protect their only basic source of income than we were other things. It would have been nice if we could have left a detachment of troops at every building in Iraq to protect it from Iraqi people who reacted to having the ability to do something on their own for the first time in decades. The only problem with this logic would have been the resulting need for very little transportation to return what was left of our military - if anything at all was left. No militray in the world is large enough to disperse troops like this and hopefully, no military commander is inane enough to attempt it. As a former history teacher and a history buff I feel very badly about the looting of their museum - especially since it appears from most accounts to have been an inside job so far as those antiqities with monetary value were concerned. It is extremely hard, no, it is impossible to protect a people from their own corrupt government.