3,000 years ago, it ruled the Mideast, now blown to pieces

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Okay fine, Saddam went into Kuwait and Daddy Bush got him out of there.
Actually, his soldiers hightailed it and ran.

So be it.
That should have been all we did to Saddam.

Had he still be ruling Iraq today,  I highly doubt any of this would be going on right now.

Tens of thousands of citizens live in camps. Much of the city of Ramadi is destroyed. More than 70 mass graves have been unearthed in IS territory. Other ancient sites remain under IS control.

Such a tragedy.



Now this paragraph is a head scratcher for sure....

But it's unclear where the artifacts seized from them are.

The police insisted they were at a lab in the northern city of Irbil. The lab said it knew nothing about them.

The Antiquities Ministry in Baghdad said they were safe in the Nineveh government offices. An official there said they were with the police awaiting transit to Baghdad.

That circle of confusion makes theft easy.

Umm, okaaay.
That doesn't sound very good.





Such a shame to demolish the past as IS has done.....

 

A fragment of an Assyrian-era relief shows the image of a genie holding a pine cone at the ancient site of Nimrud that was destroyed by Islamic State group militants near Mosul, Iraq. in this Nov. 28, 2016 photo. In the 9th and 8th centuries BC, Nimrud was the capital of the Assyrian Empire, which burst out of Northern Mesopotamia to conquer much of the Mideast. The remains of its palaces, reliefs and temples were methodically blown up and torn to pieces by the Islamic State group in early 2015 in its campaign to erase history. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)