Cluck, nice going.. at least you stop to think about it....
from Reuters;
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"We certainly know the value of oil but we certainly don't know the value of historical artifacts," Vikan, director of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, told Reuters on Thursday.
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US Culture Advisers Resign Over Iraq Museum Looting
Thu April 17, 2003 04:48 PM ET
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Two cultural advisers to the Bush administration have resigned in protest over the failure of U.S. forces to prevent the wholesale looting of priceless treasures from Baghdad's antiquities museum. Martin Sullivan, who chaired the President's Advisory Committee on Cultural Property for eight years, and panel member Gary Vikan said they resigned because the U.S. military had had advance warning of the danger to Iraq's historical treasures.
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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...toryID=2586936
One word always come back , always : OIL.