Some Artefacts recovered

Some good news. According to Times Online, the looting of the National Museum of Baghdad was not quite as bad as originally feared.

The investigators, made up of US customs agents working with coalition troops, refused to give a detailed inventory of the recovered items.

They would not say if the artefacts included any of the 38 high-value items that had been confirmed missing by the museum's curators.

More than 39,400 ancient manuscripts have been found, but officials conceded that "certain high-value pieces" had been stolen from the vaults.

We might never know the full story, of course. Unfortunately the crowing rightwingers are using this as another platform to display their visceral hatred of all liberals, and are demanding apologies from anyone who's only 'crime' was to take news reports at face value.

My anger when I originally posted this was prompted not so much by the looting itself, but by Donald Rumsfelds casual dismissal, and by the savage attacks by some rightwing blowhards in the comments section at Making Light.

When is any Anarcho-Fascist warblogger ever going to apologise for any of the hatred and venom spewed from their sites? Until they do (which they won't), I have nothing to retract or apologise for.