I refer to Jeffrey's long and muddled justification to whitewash the US military in his letter Don't blame US for looting of Baghdad museum .

Anybody who had watched CNN would have seen US soldiers standing by doing absolutely nothing as looters ransacked the museum and other cultural places. In fact, US soldiers were also busy picking up memorabilia for themselves.

The looting might have been organised and anybody could have been behind it...Saddam Hussein, CIA etc. We don't know yet. But the perception widely held is this - rightly or wrongly, the US allowed the destruction of the cultural heritage of an entire people. This is a genocide that is not easily forgiven and will never be forgotten. The US government will have to live with that!