From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue May 13 2003 - 08:19:11 MDT
--- Damien Sullivan <phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 05:39:43PM -0700, Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
> > An example of fake reporting by the left is the whole museum
> looting
> > episode. The left bought the claims of the Baathist director of the
> > museum that 170,000 priceless antiquities had been looted without
> any
> > fact checking. It turns out that most all items had been securely
> > stored across town as per government plan. The actual number of
> items
> > stolen: 27. Yup, 27. And this isn't counting the many items made of
> > precious metals and gems which are now suspected to be fake
> > replacements for items looted by Saddam over the last several
> decades.
>
> What's your source for this 27? Googling news on "antiquities" found
> an article saying US authorities have recovered 700 artifacts, 46
> brought back by a single Iraqi.
Last week there was a blurb on both CNN and FOX. Don't have a link.
Even if the amount missing is in the range of a few thousand, that is
still two entire magnitudes difference from that claimed by the
Baathist museum director, a claim which was not cross checked by leftie
media. That is a rather huge gap, tantamount to saying a criminal
suspect going to the corner drug store for smokes is a hundred miles
from home and fleeing arrest, or ten times worse than making a claim
that 42 children are killed by gunfire every day in the US.
=====
Mike Lorrey
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