Comments on: Heart-ache: U.S. attack would destroy Iranian antiquities

By: bones47

bones47 — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:47:45 +0000

POOFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFfffffffffffffffffffffGoodbye to Iranian Antique Road Show…..LOL

By: Tony737

Tony737 — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:42:41 +0000

CalDude gets a gold star on his forehead.

Anything pre-Mo is from the “days of ignorance”. Of course, as with anything islamic, it’s the exact opposite of the truth. Pre-Mo days were full of all kinds of art and science and great history. It was islam that brought ignorance to the Persians.

It’d be a real shame if something were to happen to all of that stuff, but it’s better than losing a Blue American city to an Iranian terrorist-nuke. Maybe.

By: old_dawg

old_dawg — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:32:02 +0000

ElBaradei couldn’t tell you if the sun was up if he had a sunburn and was sweating. He is a classic UN toad.
I saw bomb them until we make the rubble bounce. We can always get replacement “antiquities” from China. They are on sale at CostCo for 25% off.

By: MirCat

MirCat — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:08:01 +0000

Spec Ops to extract the antiquities?

- The Cat

P.S. What are ‘quities’ and why are they against them?

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By: ej_pez

ej_pez — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:54:31 +0000

Iran is an antiquity. A “throw-back”. The un-civilized in civilized clothing (though there is no accounting for taste, eh Ahmadinejhad?)

By: Henry Bowman

Henry Bowman — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:02:31 +0000

Much is this crapola comes from simple ignorance on the part of the “jounalists”, of course. While the Iranian uranium enrichment facility is often described as being at Natanz, for example, it is actually about 25 km NW of Natanz (just use Google Earth and check it out for yourself). The city is not is any serious danger. The facility is pretty much in the middle of nowhere; Natanz is simply one of the closest inhabited places of any size.

By: soulsirkus

soulsirkus — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:41:54 +0000

When will the Iranian Antiques Roadshow be airing? I’d love to see how much President Ahmadinejads 1970′s nylon leisure suits are worth…

By: DFWShook

DFWShook — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:27:03 +0000

This is priceless coming from the regime that destroyed many of its own antiquities becuase they were too “decadent”.

By: profitsbeard

profitsbeard — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:21:38 +0000

They blow of their own Muslim mosques -over a 1300 year old “religious inheritance” dispute- and we’re supposed to worry about the few remnants of the destroyed cultures, that Islam supplanted, in order to prevent this violent jihadist movement from gaining apocalyptic powers?

Nah.

If art-hating Islam is de-fanged, overthrown, and relegated to the ash-heap of history, maybe the Persian culture that produced the worried-about artifacts might be able to return to a revival of its pre-Mohammedan supressed glories.

If preventing the mad mullahs from being able to nuke Western cities requires re-breaking a few re-glued broken tiles, then, as the French archeologist of Persia, Remy Boucharlat, would say: c’est la vie.

By: lawhawk

lawhawk — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:19:20 +0000

Considering that much of the Middle East is a treasure trove of antiquities just waiting to be uncovered, I’d say your chances of damaging such finds in any conflict approach 100%.

Too bad no one bothered to conduct an archeological dig along the Iran Iraq border before the two countries went to war for eight years. Who knows how much was lost in that war – besides the million+ killed.

By: georgej

georgej — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:58:26 +0000

Let’s offer the Iranian mullahs this deal:

Give us Ahmadinejad in chains so we can prosecute him for invading American soil when he stormed our embassy, along with a formal apology for violating our sovereignty, and we won’t turn your country into radioactive green glass, ruining all your “relics” of the past.

By: Buck Turgidson

Buck Turgidson — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:54:08 +0000

Magbar Iran.

By: Defector01

Defector01 — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:29:05 +0000

so who gets blamed for that? America
We forced the Iranians to put those nuke sites next to cultural treasures like forcing the Iraqis to bomb their own civilians

By: forest

forest — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:22:03 +0000

Exit question 3 – Can you imagine any circumstances or events that would result in support from the Guardian for military action, of any kind, in any theater, directed against any enemy, ever?

Coz I can’t.

Martin on March 5, 2007 at 12:22 PM

The Guardian would support military action against Israel and Texas.

By: RedWinged Blackbird

RedWinged Blackbird — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:18:35 +0000

…many of Iran’s nuclear plants are perilously close to ancient cultural sites.

Good. They’ll serve as landmarks. If it’s Islamic, bomb it.

By: bbz123

bbz123 — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:59:17 +0000

I seem to recall a lack of respect for certain Jewish places of historical significance, not to be all morally relative about it.
These are leaders who calculate that losing a great number of their own is an acceptable strategy for their little caliphate restoration project, I doubt they really care about a few old vases in that equation.

By: BohicaTwentyTwo

BohicaTwentyTwo — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:56:22 +0000

Can’t we just skip to the last page where they tell us that hanging Imonamadjihad will make him a martyr.

By: LakeRuins

LakeRuins — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:52:28 +0000

In other news from the peaceful Middle East land of truth and understanding we have this
Gang-rape victim faces lashes
A SAUDI woman who was kidnapped at knifepoint, gang-raped and then beaten by her brother has been sentenced to 90 lashes – for a meeting a man who was not a relative, a newspaper reported.

By: JG2K6

JG2K6 — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:50:17 +0000

I liked Dennis Miller’s comment about how all the old Iraqi stuff looked EXACTLY like the “new” Iraqi stuff, and that it’s impossible for anyone to tell the difference.

By: Kid from Brooklyn

Kid from Brooklyn — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:47:44 +0000

Remember the good old days, when Saddam rolled out the human shields?

By: eeyore

eeyore — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:38:18 +0000

For those not already in proximity, they’ll be moving as many antiquities as possible close to the nuclear sites and taking appropriately loving “before” pictures to send to Reuters in the event of attacks.

By: LakeRuins

LakeRuins — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:33:02 +0000

home to a uranium conversion plant, is also a Unesco world heritage site and was regarded in the 16th century as the most beautiful city on earth.

Psst somebody hand them a calendar along with a clue. This is the 21st century although I have no doubt Natanz is still a beautiful 16th century city.
It won’t be long before we divide time into BM and AM. Of course anything with AM behind it is also referred to as suspended animation.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:22:07 +0000

The always-reliable Guardian.

Exit question 3 – Can you imagine any circumstances or events that would result in support from the Guardian for military action, of any kind, in any theater, directed against any enemy, ever?

Coz I can’t.

By: right2bright

right2bright — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:15:31 +0000

Well then that is just one more thing for them to think about as they go on their merry way.

I think I would be more concerned with what will become of their “valuables”…like their life, family, friends, etc.

They could always build a camp of our college students, a “tent city of peace”. Around there facilities.