The Boston Globe, April 15th, 2003
IN THE CHAOS following the fall of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship, unruly mobs were allowed to commit two disparate kinds of crime. Most horrific were lootings at Iraqi hospitals, where bands of thieves stole baby incubators, medicines, food, and water. At the same time, the cultural patrimony not only of Iraq but of civilization itself was violated when rampaging mobs stole thousands of irreplaceable artistic and archaeological treasures from Baghdad's National Museum of Antiquities. Such crimes should have been prevented or at least halted in the early stages by US troops. As an occupying pow...
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