Apologies if others have posted this here already, but Jon
Stewart at Comedy Central does a pretty good send-up job on the
subtleties of the Baghdad Museum tragedy:
http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/thedailyshowwithjonstewart/videos_headlines.jhtml
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-- part of their general War coverage, which has included,
"Intents and Porpoises"
"Rubble Without A Cause"
and,
"Profiles of the Reconstruction : The New Iraq"
Phase One : Blowing It Up
Phase Two : Putting It Back Together
And Sec'y Rumsfeld at the Pentagon briefing says, "You see this
picture of these guys on TV looting this one vase, over and over,
twenty times... is it possible that there were that many vases,
in the whole country? (audience laughter)",
-- to which Stewart responds, "Ha ha ha ha ha well let's see...
this culture has existed for 5,000 years... 20 vases... that's
one vase every 2 1/2 centuries... I'd say that's possible..."
Non - US viewers please note: this is US humor -- nothing
really understandable outside -- sort of like someone from the US
trying to fathom the mysteries of Monty Python, Canard
Enchainé, Krokodil... funny stuff / no accuracy intended...
Jack Kessler, kessler@well.sf.ca.us