Reply #19: Consider that the current Iraqi ambassador is not objective. [View All]

[daleo]

He gained his position as the result of an invasion and occupation, (i.e. was placed there by the occupying power (or by their proxy government). He can no more speak for "the Iraqi people" than you or I can. For the record, we could have said the same about Saddam's ambassador to the U.N.

None of this has any bearing on what happened to the Iraqi antiquities anyway. The Mongols probably didn't think their actions were so bad either, at the time. But history is hard on invaders that plunder (or allow the plundering of) the treasures of another civilization. I think history (including American historians, eventually) will look back upon this episode very negatively.