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When a People are Deprived of Their History…

16 April 2003 by Frank Meeuwsen

It took 24 hours to destroy thousands and thousands of years of history housed in the Iraqi antiquities museum, along with the written legacy of ancient civilizations destroyed in the Iraqi national library and religious texts:

“This morning, the ashes were still smoldering at the Ministry for Religious Affairs, where a building housing thousands of Korans, many of them illuminated and hand written, several a thousand years old, had been burned to a charred shell. It was another severe blow to Iraq’s 10,000 years of cultural history, along with the looting of the National Museum and the burning of the National Library, in which countless priceless artifacts and books were lost.”

This devastation of loss to mankind merited barely a word of acknowledgment in the daily Don Rumsfeld disinformation briefings. Instead, he ridiculed coverage of the destruction by dismissively claiming that the television stations were showing the same young man carrying the same vase over and over again…

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