Nicholas von Hoffman:

"If for nothing else, Bush II should find a place in history as the guy who dropped the bunker-buster on the Garden of Eden. It's not everybody who can lay claim to having destroyed the Mesopotamian cradle of Western Civ, but given the administration's indifference to the past...you won't find many in Washington tearing their hair out over the sacking of a few museums.

"In recognition of Mr. Bush's achievement, we might consider memorializing his august puss, if not on Mount Rushmore, then by erecting a new Sphinx. The stones might be hauled to the building site by captured Arabs, who have been convicted of "links" or being "linked," as the American officialdom is wont to say. It may be farfetched, but in light of reports that at least some of the thefts from the Baghdad museum were done by gangs with connections to shady art dealers in the West, one might wonder if money had been passed to ensure that the American military didn't get to the scene of the crime until the thieves had made their getaway with their swag of priceless antiquities."

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