@farmerman,
farmerman wrote:of all the wars weve taken art in during the late 18th and 20th centuries, very few had honorble reasons.
The nazis were known for doing that,
but we have never even been
ACCUSED of taking art,
so far as I know. We coud have looted the museums of Bagdad,
if we wanted to; thay coud not stop us, but we left it there.
I agree that it is dishonorable to take art during war.
We did not take art in wars of the 18th Century (17OOs), either.
farmerman wrote:The capping "adventure" of this new millenium is our busting up of the sovereign nation of Iraq on a pretense of some dictators lofty goals against us.
I 'm glad that we got rid of an intolerable risk,
in the form of a homicidal maniac (Saddam)
with a grudge against us.
I was concerned that he 'd sneak in a mini-nuke,
approaching an American port (like mine).
farmerman wrote:That war was clearly built upon lies deceipt and fraud. If you missed that point then you probably bought into the story that Viet Nam was a potential "domino": of Communist takeover of the world.
It was part of the Third World War,
to conquer and enslave the world under
communism.
That was obvious.
Maybe u were on the
commie side????????