Arthur Silber: The Looting That Didn't Happen

June 27th, 2005

You can leave aside the allegations that money for looted artifacts is going to terrorists, since the basis of those charges is not made at all clear in this article. But it is worth noting again the scope of the looting that many of Bush’s defenders still maintain never occurred:

PARIS—Wealthy art patrons are buying stolen artifacts from Iraq and inadvertently funding terrorist activity, the director of Iraq’s national Museum said Thursday. Some of the objects are entering the U.S., he said.

Iraqi museums were pillaged of treasures dating back 5,000 years during looting that occurred amid the chaos of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.