The Hollywood Liberal

It is the death of history

Independent UK
Excerpt

2,000-year-old Sumerian cities torn apart and plundered by robbers. The very walls of the mighty Ur of the Chaldees cracking under the strain of massive troop movements, the privatisation of looting as landlords buy up the remaining sites of ancient Mesopotamia to strip them of their artefacts and wealth. The near total destruction of Iraq’s historic past – the very cradle of human civilisation – has emerged as one of the most shameful symbols of our disastrous occupation.

Evidence amassed by archaeologists shows that even those Iraqis who trained as archaeological workers in Saddam Hussein’s regime are now using their knowledge to join the looters in digging through the ancient cities, destroying thousands of priceless jars, bottles and other artifacts in their search for gold and other treasures.

In the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War, armies of looters moved in on the desert cities of southern Iraq and at least 13 Iraqi museums were plundered. Today, almost every archaeological site in southern Iraq is under the control of looters.

HL’s Take
Just one more way that the friends of Bush are making a killing in Iraq. Right after the Iraq invasion started, the looting of ancient treasures worth billions of dollars began. Not only do they get to steal all the ancient art of Iraq, they also destroy the history of a civilization that began thousands of years before ours. Doesn’t look to good for some young upstart civilization that’s biggest claim to fame is war and death to go into the place where history began, a place that gave us many of the inventions we still use today, and kill them all, so why not just erase their history?

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