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Ethel the Blog wonders whether the plundering of the Iraq National Museum was a favour to some of the bush regime’s backers:

Let’s see: the ACCP – almost certainly made up of very rich people who donated large amounts of money to the Cabal – got a meeting with Pentagon officials before the war where they supposedly expressed their “concern” about Iraqi antiquities, while other groups – whose concerns about the antiquities were based on considerations other than their profit margin should the antiquities be “liberated” from the evil “retentionists” – communicated warnings to the Cabal but were basically ignored. That is, the Cabal knew about the museum and the looting possibilities as certainly as they knew the locations of the the oil wells and the oil ministry, and chose to spend huge amounts of time and resouces protecting the latter and basically nothing for the former. One might even say they deliberately didn’t protect the antiquities in the museum, the direct result of which was the theft of extremely valuable antiquities, many of which had been on order by art dealers well in advance of the invasion, i.e. art dealers undoubtedly connected to the same ACCP that had a private audience with the Pentagon before the invasion. Did the Pentagon issue identity badges to the ACCP “agents” so they wouldn’t get arrested or shot in the “uncontrollable chaos” (well, uncontrollable everywhere except at the oil ministry) or did they establish a special “Kelly’s Heroes” division so the non- taxpayers in the ACCP would get their fair share of government services?