Babylon
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Caution: Angryman is on the loose.

I'm too tired to do extensive linkage on this topic. I'll just direct you to Teresa Nielsen Hayden's Blog, on which good links and discussion (she's not kidding when she says you'll miss a lot of the good stuff if you don't read the comments, btw) can be found. Scroll down to the April 12 and 16 entries. She's more eloquent than I, so I will simply quote her:

We knew this was going on, but we did nothing. Why? because we don't have enough troops. There may be enough of them to deal with the fighting in Baghdad and beyond. There aren't enough of them to maintain civic order. This is Rumsfeld's fault, him and Richard Perle and all the others--including Mr. Bush, on whose watch it happened--who repeatedly overruled our own military planners, and insisted on cutting troop allotments to a fraction of what was needed. Rumsfeld didn't go to war with a serious heart. He went into it looking to buy a reelection campaign on the cheap. This is the real failure to support our troops. Rumsfeld's left them in dire straits. Our guys are stretched way too thin, and they're not in control of the situation. This is why little 19-year-old supply clerks are getting shot to pieces. It's why our soldiers are having to use inappropriate munitions, and in moments of stress and uncertainty are shooting at civilians. It's why we can't spare the manpower to preserve hospitals and museums from looters.

It's basically about how irreplaceable cultural treasures from the cradle of civilization are being destroyed because, once he's got himself into a war most of the world is opposed to, Don Rumsfeld is too much of an asshole to commit enough troops to do the job cleanly and establish order smoothly.