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...questionable bills caps a messy week of finger pointing as all of Washington tries to harness public anger, score political points and figure out how AIG managed to grant the bonuses even after all the legislation Congress has passed to limit compensation to executives of the companies taxpayers have spent trillions of dollars bailing out. The GOP blamed Democratic ineptitude in the rush to pass too many bailouts; Democrats and Republicans alike said the Treasury Secretary Geithner has been asleep at the wheel; and the Obama Administration tried to refocus attention on the consensus point that Wall Street greed...
...important that people understand that. I'm not minimizing what was done during the war. I've spent the better part of my life over the last 5-6 years attempting to return to Iraqis their priceless cultural heritage. But what we should do is strip away the myths about the looting of the Iraq museum: that U.S. forces stood idly by while the patrimony of an entire country was looted. That didn't happen. Things did happen for which the world should be outraged. But not that...
...impossible to narrow down the list of motives as to why Iraqis returned the items. Having spent many years now in the Middle East, in Iraq in particular, I have learned if you're ever given a multiple choice test in Iraq, and one of the choices is "All of the Above," always pick "All of the Above." You're never going to be wrong. That's pretty much how it was with the return of the antiquities...
There is a lot of mythology about the looting of the Iraq museum. By and large that mythology has been debunked. And I've spent the better of more than 5, 6 years attempting to debunk it. But we should be clear on something: the looting could not have been avoided. It couldn't. It could have been and should have been lessened. But we should also be clear that the vast majority of the items that were removed were removed long before the war. So the war itself is not the reason the sine qua non of the looting...
...Considering how much they spent for a meal they couldn't keep down, stricken customers have been asking if they can expect compensation any time soon. But the restaurant is taking a wait-and-see approach. "The discussion regarding any need for some sort of compensation will only happen when the investigation is complete," says Jo Livingston, a spokeswoman for The Fat Duck...