http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27545-2003May7.html Didn't Bill say that only a few items were taken? If so, how could so many items be returned? Maybe Jesus is pulling the loaves and fishes trick with the returned artifacts and manuscripts.
I like Bill, but I thought this was going to be about Halliburton getting that big Iraqi oil contract after all. Nice call, there, Archer. Boy, that "All you liberals were wrong about the war" chorus sure came to a big abrupt halt, now, didn't it?
> I'm pleased that we made recovering the artifacts a major priority. An ounce of prevention and we wouldn't need a pound of cure.
According to this article most of them weren't returned because they weren't stolen in the first place:
Re: Re: Re: Does Bill Archer ever get tired of being wrong? Um, that's not what the article said. Look at it this way. DC lost Saturday, but that doesn't mean they lost the week before. Just because the items in this article weren't stolen or broken, doesn't mean the items in the article I found weren't stolen or broken. And by the way, from this article: I'm still right. Actually, of course, I'm not right. I'm not there. You're not there. Bill's not there (unfortunately.) All I'm doing is finding and posting what people who are there are writing. Which is why Bill's original post was so silly. "We" were never wrong. Or right. Ha ha indeed, stalker.
That has to be the dumbest piece of crap I've ever read here. Not even a good try by YOUR standards, idiot. I'd be enjoying this if you weren't such a tool to begin with. But since everybody knowsw you're a lightweight, the fact that you made a fool of yourself with this thread is all too predictable. For the record, you WERE wrong. Completely wrong. You and your little ninny friends here wrote about this HORRIBLE CRIME the Bushies had committed, this INSULT TO HUMANITY, this RAPE OF THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE WORLD. Your righteous indignation was flapping in the breeezes as you figured that FINALLY you had SOMETHING you could blame America for. You were positively gleeful. And you were wrong. There WAS no wholesale looting of the museum by ransacking hordes of Iraqis while the US held the doors. Didn't happen. Not at all. And THAT is what you were wrong about. Undeniable, Mango. So then you start this moronic thread, are proven wrong AGAIN and we get this "I'm right, or rather wrong, or well, I'm certain that I'm not right, blah, blah, blah" crap. You just can't say you were wrong, can you? Just one more question: In your haste to start this thread, did you stop for a second and ponder how an unwashed mob of wild-eyed smash-and-grab looters snatching up everything in sight managed to carefully get all this stuff together, crate it up, find a buyer in Europe, manage the financing and arrange to transship the items through Jordan? Because that's really where you screwed up. You didn't even read your own article. If you had, you would have noticed that, whatever else it said, it was not Ahmed and Ali down at the Camel Wash and Go that was shipping artwork to Paris, you numbskull. If you've been paying attention, you'd know exactly what went on here. It's obvious, has been confirmed, and yesterday there was the icing on the cake and you didn't even catch it, did you? I'd explain it to you, but you aren't bright enough to get it.
Here's what I can say. The report I linked to at the beginning of this thread contradicted your earlier link. And the next link did NOT contradict mine, at all. And as an added bonus, it had information in it that goes against your other link.
"And my link, which was your link, is really a link ot the link which was origininally linked with the link from the previous link." Does this bewildering and byzantine response actually make sense to you dave? Inquiring minds want to know. Having some trouble scraping the dogshit off your shoes, aren't you dave? (Oh, and LOVE the cute little picture. REALLY helps make your case. Dimwit.) Read my lips dave: You were wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. It's been rpoven six ways to Sunday, dave. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Your little thread here has blown up in your face dave. The only thing that can save you now is a Mod taking pity on you. The POINT, you insipid moron, is that you got your panties all in a wad over the Bushies allowing this cultural disaster, practically holding a garage sale at the Iraq Museum while rampaging mobs stole evrything that wasn't nailed down, while the Army was over setting up office space for Halliburton. And you were wrong, dave. And everybody else gets it but you, idiot. It ain't whetehr the Director of the Museum lifted 25 pieces or 38, you numbskull. It's whether the goddam place was looted by crazed mobs, as you claimed. It wasn't. Didn't happen. You were simply wrong. Link to link, my link, your links, all God's children got links, blah, blah, blah. Quit while you're behind dave.
Bill, so your argument is that if some pieces were locked away, that only a couple dozen were stolen. So if millions of Cambodians survived Pol Pot, then only a few dozen were killed. If Bush's economic plan has 100 million American working, then only a few dozen jobs have been lost. Interesting analysis. And by interesting, I mean moronic.
And if you make 10,000,000 more irrelevant posts, I'm certain only a couple dozen people will suffer mental retardation from reading them. If you post a lot more funny pictures, I'm certain it will make your posts make sense. You've been chopped up, dave.
It's really gotten so bad for you to have made an ass of yourself that now you're down to making up stuff and claiming I said it? And following it up with cartoons? A yellow flag would have been easier and more gracious, numbnuts. I'll leave it to the good people here. You stuck your foot in it dave, everybody here has seen it, and no amount of Pol Pot/Bush economic plan (something ELSE, incidentally, that you know absolutely nothing about) blather can change it. (My good freind Joe Pak can pull that sort of switcheroo with grace and aplumb. You have neither) Have a nice day.
Hector, please tell us more about Charles Martel. That's your assignment. Nothing else. Tell us about Charles Martel. Bill, let's try this one more time. 1. Controversy hits about the looting of the Iraqi National Museum. 2. You post a "get tired of being wrong thread" with a link to an article that says the looting was limited to a very very small number of pieces, and the whole controversy is bogus. 3. I link to article saying there was lots of looting. 4. You link to article that says there were lots of articles that were locked away. Now here's where it gets tricky. Try to keep up. 5. You claim that 4. proves 3. wrong. My analogy was to show you that if items 1-500,000 were saved, that doesn't mean that articles 500,001-1,000,000 were also. Don't give up hope Bill
Uh...I didn't see anything in the article that said the looting was a hoax. It's a matter of question as to how bad it was - and from what I can gather, it was really very bad. This is like finding a few items that weren't lost in a - well, a looting. Not as bad as we thought does not mean "not bad." I have no pictures to prove my point. After all, in the words of Dan O'Neill, the word is worth a thousand pictures.