Re: Gee this will convince everyone

From: doisboid <okfreddy_at_hotmail.com_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 22:55:45 -0000

Ring the division bell folks.




--- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, mayhem <meurtre_at_e...>
wrote:


> > And who will buy it back and why buy back stolen artifacts?


>


> Powell said we'd buy back as many as we could. Because, for


> invading conquerers who only care about ooiiill, we're pretty


> moral.


>




It's only taxpayer money and we know how moral our government is with
that. But, hey, why don't the Iraqi's use the oil money? Oh, it's all
going for food - right, sure!




> >Heck,


> > unless the Baghdad Museum has extensive descriptions of every
piece


> > stolen it is most *unlikely* the loot will ever be recovered by us
or


> > Iraq.


>


> Um. Most museums have their holdings catalogued.


>




Most, not all and it's still no guarantee of safe returns. Go to
Berlin to the Pergamon Museum - nice collection of Babylonian
artifacts. No chance of them being returned to Iraq any time soon.




> >Private collectors who can afford professional thieves can


> > afford to keep these things hidden as well.


>


> OTOH, money talks.




Sure does. Hey, why don't we buy the info about where the loot is and
while we're at it we can buy info about the Iraqi Weapons of Mass
Destruction and the whereabouts of Bin Laden...




>


> > (I'll bet Bill Gates gets some large packages from Baghdad in the
next


> > few days. That bastard! Keep all rich people under surveillance!)


> >


> > If Iraq wants some really good treasure of theirs back they should


> > call the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.


> >


> > BTW, the lack of looting in Europe may have been due to lack of
total


> > infrastructure collapse. They weren't invaded - EXCUSE ME! -
liberated


> > by an outside country entering guns a-blazing. Makes a difference.


>


> To say that infrastructure collapsed in Baghdad last week, but
didn't


> in Europe after WWII is to have it bass-ackwards. Hell, the only
reason


> the power went off is because the Ba'athists turned it off. They've
got


> running water, electricity and everything. Contra '91.


>


> Europe wasn't invaded, "guns a-blasing"? Then what do you call Omaha
Beach?


> Just a pleasure outing?


>


> --J


>




I was thinking of more recent European regime changes. WW2 Europe to
the current Iraq spectacle is not quite comparable. We can argue the
most ridiculous points 'til we're blue in the face but you actually
called it earlier: essentially you trust what our government is doing.
I don't. Sure, our government may be one of the better ones around but
that's rather scary considering how corrupt it is with lobbyists,
cronyism, greed, and other nasty shit. Our government could be so much
better...




So ring the division bell and let loose the dogs of war.


-Ozzy
Received on 2003-04-18 15:55:46