Loot (22 May 2003)

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Loot (22 May 2003)
Where did the looting start?

I spoke to a man in Basra and a woman in Baghdad last week. They are both Iraqi, they were both in these two towns during the war and they both told me the same thing: that coalition troops opened up ministries and banks and then stepped back, allowing local residents to help themselves to the booty inside.

But culture can be changed faster than you might think. The easy way to do it is to cauterize a country's brain. Burn the administration and institutions that preserve the memory, and you have an infantile nation, ready for your new education.

I went to Baghdad to see what was happening, and that was what I saw.

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