interview: Robbing the cradle of civilization, five years later

Just how bad was the looting of Iraq's museum and archaeological sites? 
According to Salon's experts, many ancient artifacts have come home, but 
the looting continues.
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It was partly in response to media queries about the unimpeded looting 
of Iraq's cultural heritage that former Secretary of Defense Donald 
Rumsfeld uttered the infamous and cavalier rejoinder, "Democracy is 
messy." Five years after the sacking of Iraq, we decided to ask the 
experts how bad it really was, how many priceless antiquities have come 
back to their homeland, and what, if anything, has changed about the 
Bush administration's approach to protecting Iraq's history.

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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/03/20/iraq_roundtable/