“The point is this, i would rather save one innocent life than a ten tousand year old vase…”

Really?

And how many American lives were worth sacrificing for the Declaration of Independance?

How many billion people are there?

How many billion will there be in 10 years time?

If human life is so important why do you support your government bombing all the countries it bombs?

I didn’t realise it was a choice between saving one innocent life or a piece of old pottery… I thought it was a choice between being there for the Iraqis… and protecting the museums and hospitals, or the choice of protecting the oil so it can flow quicker.
The World can offer Iraq enough loans, and the US has enough specialist oil fire teams to get oil flowing within a few months no matter what anyone did to the oil infrastructure.
The delay would merely mean more interest would accrue… but why would the Iraqi people care about that, because the priority of helping them rather than the oil would mean they’d have functional sewerage systems, and electricity and water supplies, Hospitals would be stocked with medicines and be safe, and Iraqs history would be intact and protected… tourism is certainly part of Iraqs future too… and the important artifacts will last longer in display in a museum than the oil will support them…