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113. John Hendren, “4-Star Plans After Abu Ghraib,” Los Angeles Times, October 15, 2004, http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/printer_101604I.shtml.
114. Dave Moniz, “Gen. Karpinski Demoted in Prison Scandal,” USA Today, May 5, 2005.
115. Editorial, “Impunity,” Washington Post, April 26, 2005. See also Editorial, “American Homicide,” Boston Globe, March 29, 2005; Josh White, “Top Army Officers Are Cleared in Abuse Cases,” Washington Post, April 23, 2005; Seymour Hersh, “The Unknown Unknowns of the Abu Ghraib Scandal,” Guardian, May 21, 2005, http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5198906-103677,00.html.
116. Sonni Efron, “GOP Committee Targets International Red Cross,” Los Angeles Times, June 15, 2005, http://fairuse.laccesshost.com/news2/latimes688.html; Caroline Moorhead, “Speak No Evil,” Financial Times, June 18-19, 2005.
117. Burton J. Lee III, “The Stain of Torture,” Washington Post, July 1, 2005.
118. American Embassy, London, “Visit of President Bush to Northern Ireland, April 7-8,2003,” http://www.usembassy.org.uk/potus03/potus03c.html.
119. William R. Polk, introduction to The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad: The Lost Legacy of Ancient Mesopotamia, Milbry Polk and Angela M. H. Schuster, eds. (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005), p. 5. See also Suzanne Muchnic, “Spotlight on Iraq’s Plundered Past,” Los Angeles Times, June 20, 2005.
120. David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (New York: Owl Books, 1989, 2001), p. 450.
121. George Bush’s address to the Iraqi people, broadcast on Towards Freedom TV, April 10, 2003, http://home.earthlink.net/~platter/speeches/030410-bush-tfreedom.html.
122. Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Strategic Communication (Washington, DC: September 2004), pp. 39-40.
123. See Frank Rich, “And Now: ’Operation Iraqi Looting,’” New York Times, April 27, 2003; Eleanor Robson, “The Collection Lies in Ruins, Objects from a Long, Rich Past in Smithereens,” Guardian, April 14, 2003, http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,936561,00.html.
124. Robert Scheer, “It’s U.S. Policy that’s ’Untidy,’” Los Angeles Times, April 15, 2003; reprinted in “Books in Flames,” TomDispatch.com,, April 15, 2003, http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtmPpid-578.
125. John F. Burns, “Pillagers Strip Iraqi Museum of Its Treasures,” New York Times, April 13, 2003; Piotr Michalowski (University of Michigan), “The Ransacking of the Baghdad Museum Is a Disgrace,” History News Network, April 14, 2003, http://hnn.us/articles/1386.html; Fiachra Gibbons, “The End of Civilization,” Guardian, April 2, 2003, http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,927788,00.html.
126. Polk and Schuster, Looting of Iraq Museum, pp. 209-10; “Looters Trash Museum’s Treasures,” Observer, April 13, 2003, http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0935762,00.html.
127. Mark Wilkinson, “Looting of Ancient Sites Threatens Iraqi Heritage,” Reuters, June 29, 2005, http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusintl/reuters06-29-050006.asp?reg-mideast8tvts=62920051945. See also Matthew Bogdanos, Thieves of Baghdad (New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2005).
128. Polk and Schuster, Looting of Iraq Museum, pp. 23, 212-13; Louise Jury, “At Least 8,000 Treasures Looted from Iraq Museum Still Untraced,” Independent, May 24, 2005; Stephen Fidler,” ’The Looters Knew What They Wanted. It Looks Like Vandalism, but Organized Crime May Be Behind It,’” Financial Times, May 23, 2003; Rod Liddle, “The Day of the Jackals,” Spectator, April 19, 2003, http://www.agitprop.org.au/nowrar/20030419_liddle_day_of_the_jackals.php.
129. Humberto Marquez, “Iraq Invasion the ’Biggest Cultural Disaster Since 1258,”’ Antiwar.com, February 16, 2005, http://www.antiwar.com/ips/marquez.php?articleid-4859.
130. Robert Fisk, “Library Books, Letters, and Priceless Documents Are Set Ablaze in Final Chapter of the Sacking of Baghdad,” Independent, April 15, 2003.
131. Polk and Schuster, Looting of Iraq Museum, p. 10.
132. Guy Gugliotta, “Pentagon Was Told of Risk to Museums; U.S. Urged to Save Iraq’s Historic Artifacts,” Washington Post, April 14, 2003; McGuire Gibson, “Cultural Tragedy in Iraq: A Report on the Looting of Museums, Archives, and Sites,” International Foundation for Art Research, http://www.ifar.org/tragedy.htm. See also Jeremy Grant’s interview with McGuire Gibson at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, “Hidden Gems and Unexpected Links,” Financial Times, September 10–11, 2005.
133. Liddle, “Day of the Jackals”; Oliver Burkeman, “Ancient Archive Lost in Baghdad Blaze,” Guardian, April 15, 2003, http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0936943,00.html.
134. See James A. R. Nafziger, “Art Loss in Iraq: Protection of Cultural Heritage in Time of War and Its Aftermath,” International Foundation for Art Research, http://www.ifar.org/heritage.htm.
135. Jonathan Steele, “Museum’s Treasures Left to the Mercy of Looters, U.S. Generals Reject Plea to Protect Priceless Artifacts from Vandals,” Guardian, April 14, 2003, http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,936557,00.html; Paul Martin, Ed Vulliamy, and Gaby Hinsliff, “U.S. Army Was Told to Protect Looted Museum,” Observer, April 20, 2003, http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4651740-102275,00.html; Rich, “Operation Iraqi Looting”; Paul Martin, “Troops Were Told to Guard Treasures,” Washington Times, April 20, 2003.
136. Said Arjomand, “Under the Eyes of U.S. Forces and This Happened?” History News Network, April 14, 2003, http://hnn.us/articles/1387.html. For the hypocrisy of marine colonel Matthew Bogdanos, who was put in
