Remember Iraq's Heritage, Our Heritage

April 10-12 marks the anniversary of the looting of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad in 2003. In this video, Dr. Donny George Youkhanna, the former director of the Iraq Museum, urged us to participate in a worldwide candlelight vigil to commemorate the tragic events, and to end the looting and destruction of cultural heritage in Iraq, and around the world. The Donny George Candlelight Vigil for Glabal Heritage was initiated in 2007 by SAFE/Saving Antiquities for Everyone and renamed after Dr. Youkhanna, who passed away in March 2011.

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[deserk]

This is one of the worst things that have happened in our century. Thousands of artifacts of a great civilization destroyed from history, never to be seen again.

This isn't just about the Iraqi's history, this is about mankind's history.

[lumster]

It is such an outrage and crime to see this kind of looting but the United States government supported the Zionist looting of all of Palestine since the original crime began! When will the Zionists give up the looted and occupied Palestine? When will America stop supporting Zionist looters?

[edthewise]

This is why Europeans have so many of these ancient treasures and artifacts in museums in the west because they damn people are like children irresponsible and unable to govern themselves.

[elamite66]

@deserk I only hope many of the broken and looted artifacts are recorded and photographed not that is in anyway going to soften the blow but it would be something at least Bush was only interested in imagined WMDs and illusory Al Qaeda links and revenge

[elamite66]

@lumster Yes you are 100% correct regarding the Antiquities Museum but while I have to agree in general about the Zionist depredations this was not done with the total disregard of a nation's and the world's heritage

[elamite66]

The theft by looters of irreplaceable treasures could be ascribed to greed but the distruction ot treasures not taken was behing comprehension The rioters and looters were guilty of theft and destruction but Bush was guilty of not protecting the legacy of not only Iraq but the world The explanation that it was not worth putting U.S. forces in jeopardy, as he didn't mind putting soldiers and airmen in harm's way to destroy Saddam's yacht which was only a propaganda statement or the oil facilities

[elamite66]

The looting of the Antiquities museum was an atrocity both to Iraq's heritage and the heritage of the Western World George Bush refused to protect the museum, archeological sites and also the city's hospital despite the National Georgraphic, Smithsonian and many other NGOs It was a crime beyond understanding Did Bush believe it?, I cannot put it any other way The propoganda put forth by the U.S. and U.K. about WMDs and links to Al Qaeda was believed by too many Afganistan Yes Iraq?

[IceSparrow44]

I will light my candle. :'(

[rahotep101]

Shocking and dreadful. Apologies to Iraq from one Briton who wishes his country had never been part of the invsion and who opposed it from the start. This cultural destruction was the least of the evils that resulted in the ensuing anarchy. Such a terrible, shameful, insane episode.

[am1966ath]

The iliterate US-troops just stood by while this priceless collection was looted. Bravo G.Bush

[CUACHALOTE]

wow and other BIG X for the profile of USA, BORN TO KILL.