>US is strongest nation in the world, but their history is incomparable to that of Iraq ? a region that has been
> described as the cradle of civilization,
Sure the US is the strongest, but more importantly it is the free-est and most genereous, from which stength is the natural outcome. Yes Iraq was a cradle to civilization. Civilization in its infancy was dictatorial, totalitarian, elitest, and brutal, a tradition Saddam gloried in. If Iraq was the cradle to civilization, England and the Netherlands were the nursuries of freedom, and America was the playground where freedom grew and flourished.
>with this lawless situation of the country US is going "blind" , it is hard to
> see in Reuters video clips as old buildings are been destroyed , if you like art o care about history is unforgiven.
Scholars and archeologists were denied access to the ancient sites while Saddam controlled Iraq. A generation of scholarship has been forgone; one more dismal legacy of Saddam the Low.
> One point is clear the goverment didnt plan this step of the invasion,
Maybe you switched channels when they showed segments about all this on TV? They planned the follow-up and transition. They are currently implementing it with deliberate speed. They have an immense crew of specialists assembled and waiting in an Iraq port to take care of this sort of thing, with more crew piling up every day. Since this crew are not soldiers, they won't go in until the shooting dies down some. They would just be shot by the Baath, because you have to have firepower in present Iraq to stay alive. Only in fairy tails is it otherwise.
>Bush said the war is no over because Tomm Frank didnt get to the Objective, what is the objective? you and me
> tax-payers can not know may be is Siria o Iran we'll know the bill later.
The objective is to take control of Iraq. The generals decide when that is in hand. Who else would know? Reporters?
>Just for the remarks from Secretary of Defence (Rummy)about the humanitarian situation in Irak, upset me when he is
> joking about it.
Rumsfeld correctly ridiculed the unrealistic reporting. In no way was he filp about the humanitarian situation. It is the self-styled "moderates" who are doing a number on Don. Moderates have spent years posing as angels, while they stood aside and did nothing for Iraq.
>Flippant remarks cannot replace priceless artefacts that have disappeared from the National Museum in Baghdad, or the
> books of the University of Mosul ? one of the oldest and best universities in the whole of the Middle East.
Probably looted by the Baathist supervisors of these institutions, and taken to Syria. They would have the knowledge and connections to fence this type of loot. They'll need financing for bribes to make their escapes and set up new identities in Syria, France, and Russia.
I see the pictures of looters dragging huge things like 8 foot high industrial air conditioners behind dump trucks, and I wonder who these looters are. Who would know what the stuff was and how to fence such things, but the favored Baathist elite, the people who once ran Iraq? The Baathists destroyed Iraqi culture in order to save it. Now they are vandalizing Iraq to save their own skins.
Believe it or not, Iraq had police and doctors a few days ago. Where are they now? They police were the death squads and torturers. The employees of hospitals and government institutions were the Baathist favored elite who got everythng and lived in comfort while most of the population were allocated nothing in the government controlled economy. The police and doctors have all fled to save their skins or to save their property. They are the guilty, and they know they would pay if justice were to prevail. The wives, put up in the Palestine Hotel with the foreign reporters, screamed in terror and cried for mercy as American soldiers went by. The wives only experience under Baath rule (of which they were a part) was that they would have been killed without a thought if the soldiers were Saddam's. To rule by terror, people must be absolutely certain of a terrible fate. That lifetime of Baath experience is what motivates the police and doctors to desert instantly. They are gone well before the American forces get there. The Baath put those Saddam street scenes on TV. and hospital scenes, to give the impression that lots of authorities were still present.
In the field, before the Amercans get to a weapons stash, the Baath guard flees taking away the poison gas, not bothering with the protection suits and antidote. The reason is that Rumsfeld said there would be war crimes trials, and the Baath guard knew they would lose.
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