We didn't shoot the looters in Baghdad....

[kentuck]

We let them take historical artifacts that were priceless - worth much more than plasma TVs. Yet, we are talking of shooting looters in our own country, that are looting under much more severe conditions. Anybody notice the parallel?

[RageFist]

1. Ya, Overwhelming poverty

[wli]

2. part of that was letting US looters in to steal valuable artifacts n/t

[Kingofalldems]

3. What was Rumsfeld's quote on the looting?

Something about freedom on the march?

[radar]

7. Rumsfeld on looting in Iraq: 'Stuff happens'

"Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things," Rumsfeld said. "They're also free to live their lives and do wonderful things. And that's what's going to happen here."

Looting, he added, was not uncommon for countries that experience significant social upheaval. "Stuff happens," Rumsfeld said.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/04/11/sprj.irq.pentagon/

[noiretextatique]

4. white people "find"...other people "loot"

a friend just sent me two photos with captions. one with a white couple who "found" food in a grocery store...the other with a black man who "looted" a grocery. unfuckingbelievable!

[TahitiNut]

6. Ain't it? Beyond disgusting!

Even photos are a kind of "racial rohrshach" that reveal the appalling bigotry.

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[The_Casual_Observer]

8. New Orleans a little too untidy perhaps?

Freedom in Iraq was just untidy.