• 2nd half of 2005
  
• 1st half of 2005
  
• 4th quarter of 2004
  
• 3rd quarter of 2004
  
• 2nd quarter of 2004
  
• 1st quarter of 2004
  
• November-December 2003
  
• August-October 2003
  
• June-July 2003
  
• May 2003
• April 2003
• March 2003 and before

M. Bogdanos, "The Terrorist in the Art Gallery," in The New York Times, December 10, 2005: about connection between looters and terrorists in Iraq Cartoon: "M.K. Perker"

• P. Flarge, "US to launch Cradle of Civilisation Theme Park in Northern Iraq (Filed June 2004). By our Baghdad correspondent John Bart Simpson," in Artnose (UK), online, October 1, 2005: "The US State Department today announced plans to build a Cradle of Civilisation Theme Park in Northern Iraq, complete with Hanging Gardens of Babylon multiplex cinema complex and Tower of Babel games emporium. ... Washington has welcomed it as a beacon of urban revitalisation 'which will do wonders for Iraq.plc.' [Iraq, Inc.] The park is to be constructed on a plot of land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and will occupy about half of the current city of Baghdad. ... Los Angeles interior decorators are said to have won the majority of furnishing contracts on account of the close correspondences between West Coast interior design taste and the aesthetic predilections of the deposed Iraqi regime. ... a new company — Freedom Fries Inc. of Southern California — which is expected to steal a march on rival MacDonalds to sell the famous Basra burger and chips to hungry punters. Among the park's main attractions will be The Magically Disappearing Museum, The Shock and Awe Adventure Playground, the Hunt the WMDs Fun Tent and the Chemical Ali Adrenalin Rollercoaster which will propel braver customers into Southern Kurdistan. Among the spin-off TV contracts is likely to be a game-show entitled 'I'm a Ba'ath Party Supporter, Get Me Out of Here'. The first director of the CoC Theme Park is yet to be confirmed but the hard-nosed Neo-Conservative Washington Senator Richard Perle is said to be among the first to have thrown his hat into the ring."
  
• P. Flarge, "Baghdad Museum was not looted. It always looked like that, says new report. By Artnose Cultural Heritage Corrrespondent Conda Lisa Pulao Rice," in Artnose (UK), online, September 30, 2005: "... according to a new report by Inspector of Antiquities for the US Army, Commander Charlie 'Chuck' Ishtar. This week, Commander Ishtar's team was finally permitted access to the museum's storerooms where they found scenes of 'utter devastation'. However, this was not the work of unruly gangs. ... Now it seems the marauding crowd were just museum staff rushing off to their lunch break. 'It's always been very untidy here,' said curator of Mesopotamian antiquities Ali Akhbar Reza Blayeed, as he picked his yellowing teeth with a 3000-year-old Sumerian cylinder seal. 'You people expect everyone to work to the same standards as the British Museum, but this is the Cradle of Civilisation. We do things differently here.' Western journalists are up in arms, accusing the chief Iraqi curator Danny 'Boy' George of exaggerating the extent of the damage, but the smooth-talking, silver-haired, Princeton-educated Iraqi archaeologist is unrepentant. Wiping back tears with a fragment of an illuminated manuscript from the Ziggurat of Ur, he recounted with cracking voice the scenes that greeted him when he reported for work on April 12th. 'It was terrible. I saw George Bush with my own eyes, disguised as a US marine, hacking off the head of an alabaster statue from Nimrud, while Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld stuffed hundreds of basalt deities into their combat trousers. And my secretary saw Tony Blair leaving the building carrying one of the great Assyrian winged bulls. He's stronger than you think, you know. He works out. It's all gone, gone, gone for ever.'"
  

P. Flarge, "Artnose Christmas Gifts," in Artnose (UK), online, September 30, 2005: "The Donald Rumsfeld Guide to Preserving Ancient Art. If you thought the US State Department was good for nothing except unrolling American corporate values across a supine planet, think again. Following the overthrow of Saddam and the successful dispersal of Iraqi cultural heritage to venal private collectors, this helpful guide tells vulnerable developing countries how to dispatch their priceless collections of ancient material heritage onto the open market prior to invasion. What's better? - An opportunity to buy back your artefacts later at vastly inflated prices, or lose it altogether when a short-range ballistic missile comes through your gallery window? You know it makes sense. Published by Wolfowitz & Rice, Washington, $399.00." Fig.: [no caption]

Cartoon: Marec, "US Army voor poorten Bagdad," in Het Nieuwsblad (Belgium), April 7, 2005: translation: "US Army at the gates of Baghdad"; Mickey Mouse as a Trojan horse...; rerun of an April 7, 2003 cartoon?

Cartoon: "[History gets its share of beheadings as well]," in Al-Sabah Al-Jedeed (Iraq), [April 5, 2005]: about the Spiral Minaret of Samarra; caption translation by Omar from the Iraq the Model blog

• T. Engelhardt, "One-Way Planet," in TomDispatch.com, online, March 24, 2005: "Put in a nutshell, in April 2003 as the invasion of Iraq was winding down, the Pentagon, in its infinite wisdom, decided to build a military base -- the construction company was, of course, Halliburton subsidiary KBR -- cheek-to-jowl with one of the most treasured archeological sites on the planet. (The base actually enclosed part of ancient Babylon.) This was, let's remember, part of a war to preserve what our President called the Iraqi 'patrimony' (though, to be fair, he used that word in reference to Iraqi oil)." "So, for a final thought experiment, let's imagine -- though the parallel, given our relative historical newness, is hardly exact -- as a mirror-image for this, the great set of encampments the Syrian military has set up in Massachusetts, one of which encloses most of the original site of the first Plymouth settlement. 'Unfortunately,' a Syrian Air Force spokesman is quoted as saying, 'though we recognize the richness of American history in the Plymouth military region, we were short on material for our air field and it's not an area rich in gravel. We had no choice but to grind up Plymouth Rock. It was,' he added, 'only a boulder, after all.' Okay, much as I happen to love Plymouth Plantations, it's largely a re-creation of the original settlement and so hardly comparable to Babylon -- ..."

Cartoon: Reasons To Be Cheerful, "George Says... the Baghdad Museum, Baybeelon, ...," in Ourmedia.org, online, March 23, 2005: "George Says... the Baghdad Museum, Baybeelon, That Minaree Thingee in Sam-Arrh... What's Next on the 'Show 'Em Who's Boss' List in Iraq, Rummy?"

• M. Gross, "The Hole-in-the-Truth Gang. Max Gross Visits the Best Little Whorehouse in Washingtoon," in Xenox News (Australia), online, March 6, 2005: "But maybe paying juicy bonuses will finally stop U.S. soldiers from nicking Iraq’s precious archaeological artefacts and selling them over the border to art merchants in Jordan and Kuwait?"
• K. Melville, "Ten reasons . . . to holiday in Iraq. Help out a war zone with your tourist cash," in ak13, online, February 9, 2005: "The Iraqi National Museum[.] Assuming you make it into the city without being kidnapped, this is a must for any culture vulture in the nation's capital – with vulture being the operative word after 10 April 2003, when the looting of priceless Middle Eastern artefacts started following the fall of Saddam's regime. ... Initially, 50,000 items were estimated to be missing. However, since this included the card catalogue, that number was really just a guess. Interpol, the FBI, and an army of art historians have apparently since reclaimed many items through a combination of criminal investigation, scouring the black market and, presumably, e-bay. ... Babylon: it is in the Bible. Twice. ... The most famous Babylonian Emperor, Nebuchadnezzar II, whose name is just so much fun to say, was the one who exiled the entire aristocratic elite and religious leadership from Judea, now Israel. See the psalms for details. See also Simon and Garfunkel. Saddam considered himself a latter-day Nebuchadnezzar, relocating fractious ethnic minorities left, right, centre, and often below ground in a box." "Hatra: the first Fallujah[.] Hatra resisted invasion during the two wars in the Persian Gulf waged by the single major Western superpower. Admittedly, it was the Romans, not the Americans, this was C.E. 116 and 198, and the local people were known as Parthians. Still, they stood up twice to the big bad diktat that insisted that invasion was good for civilisation. The passage of time has done what the Romans could not: the ruins are now the only [sic] UNESCO World Heritage site in Iraq. ... What is the capital of Assyria? Nineveh. While Monty Python's King Arthur and his English kerniggits had to cross the Bridge of Death by answering Nineveh, now you have to cross the Triangle of Death to get there. Nineveh was the seat of government for Nimrod's Assyrian empire that came down like a wolf on the fold. If you do not know your Byron, they came down like Black Hawk helicopters on the rebels on nearby Mosul. Nimrod is in the Old Testament too." "In conclusion, Iraq is a nasty place to be, whether you are fighting for freedom on either side or just an Iraqi that went to pick up some bread and came back paraplegic. People are dying in ever greater numbers every day, on both sides, because they have not learned the lessons of history. It would be worthwhile if every rebel insurgent and every American soldier were forcibly dragged to the scene of each of the bloody power struggles that have taken place on Iraqi soil over the centuries and told to pull their socks up. Or be sent to bed early with no supper to think about what they have done."

Cartoon: I. Orosz, cover of The Progressive, 69, 2 (February 2005)

• Decadent Prince, "SCENARIO: The Gold of Nimrud," in ClassicMarvel.com, online, January 28, 2005: "... the Red Skull leads his neo-nazi commando force on a raid of the Iraqi National Museum. There they steal a huge Babylonian idol of gold, the Dragon of Nimrud. If they are not stopped, Iraq, and then Israel and then perhaps the entire world will be destroyed by the nightmare of TIAMAT! ... Military and espionage type heroes might be fighting terrorists in Iraq and asked to investigate the Museum theft. ... A more traditional team may be called in when flights of dragons begin attacking coalition forces! ... The Red Skull and his coven of Nazi Sorcerers must be tracked down and destroyed at the ancient Ziggurat they have converted into a base. ... If the Heroes aren't careful or waste a lot of time, they could end up facing hundreds of Dragons or even the devil dragon goddess TIAMAT herself."

Cartoon: D. Asmussen, "Bad Reporter," in San Francisco Chronicle, November 5, 2004: "2004 Assyrian Horse-Drawn Chariot Electoral Map"

S. Persky, "Mr. Peanut Sees the World. The cartoony ad icon pops up in famous places, thanks to Vincent Trasov's absurdist pen," in The Tyee (Canada), online, June 8, 2004: "Vincent Trasov's new series of Mr. Peanut drawings, 'Histories,' is elegant, playful and yet, at the same time, the drawings offer some surprisingly astute commentary about contemporary politics and our understanding of history." "The most politically poignant of the drawings is the figure of Mr. Peanut standing in the place of monumental statues of the Buddha in Bamyian Valley in Afghanistan, destroyed by the Taliban religious fundamentalists in 2001." "Mr. Peanut's presence on the walls of Babylon in Iraq [see illustration], or at the temple of Delphi represents an abiding concern with the destruction of memory." Illustration: "Vincent Trasov"

Kamagurka, "Museum voor Roof en Plundering," in Kamagurka.com (Belgium), online, May 12-16, 2003: sign in Dutch says: "museum of robbery and plunder"; pedestal inscription speaks for itself

Kamagurka, "Musea in Irak geplunderd," in Kamagurka.com (Belgium), online, April 14-18, 2003: Dutch title means: "museums in Iraq looted"; driver says: "maybe I can exchange him for a Mercedes hood ornament"

Cartoon: T. Rall, "Pentagon Officials Blame ...," May 24, 2004 [Rall.com]

Cartoon: T. Rall, "You may remember Pat Tillman ...," April 29, 2004 [Rall.com]

Quiddity, "It's simply a matter of time," in Uggabugga, online, April 18, 2003: [refers to archbishop Ussher of Armagh's theory of the age of the earth as he calculated according to his interpretation of the Bible (in the 17th cent.)]

Cartoon: S. Getchell, "Baghdad Museum," in The Boston Phoenix, December 26, 2003

• H. McKinnon, "New Big Boom in Iraq - Jobs. In Thanksgiving Speech, Bush Announces Plan to Put Iraqis to Work (Satire)," in  Utne Magazine, online, December 2003: "The real reason Iraqis are attacking us is that they have too much time on their hands.  That is to say, if they had to work 14 hours days they'd have no time or energy to be lobbing rockets at our troops.  That's why we are going to implement the 'Shock and Awe' Job Plan." "There will also be a lot more jobs in museums for people to glue artifacts back together.  This could provide years of employment for people with no education and no hope.  And the constant glue sniffing won't damage their job prospects. And there are many arts and culture jobs.  For example, in the past, sculptors could only work on Saddam statues. They now have many more creative opportunities.  And personally I'm hoping one of them will do a statue of Donald Rumsfeld, saviour of the Middle East.  Don deserves to be permanently set in concrete."
  
• D. O Baoill, "Special Report: More Moral Wars On Way - Bush. In a Four-Part Special Report, Our Man in London Donal O Baioll Gives the Low-Down on President George W. Bush's Historic State Visit to England. Part Two: War Talks," in The Ballyhoo Examiner (Ireland), November 21, 2003: "Talking to the Ballyhoo Examiner yesterday, [president Bush] said: ... You may have heard that your typical average family in Baghdad has to rob two museums just to make ends meet. But now at least they have the freedom to complain, and now they have a free market too. ... 'Some people have criticised our forces for guarding the oil fields and not guarding their national museum and all the priceless antiquities it had inside, and they say that this shows a fundamental lack of respect for the Iraqis and their history. But I just want to remind those people of one thing: the oldest relics in that museum are maybe five or six thousand years old. But that oil is at least 65 million years old, or ten times as old.'"

• F. Wood, "You Can Help Rebuild a Country or Just Turn the Page," in The Star-Ledger (New Jersey), October 29, 2003: "Dear Fellow American: It is my great pleasure to extend to you today a rare opportunity to personally alter the course of history. Because of international developments over the past two weeks, your government has made the unprecedented decision to open an individual American donor membership in the prestigious Coalition of the Willing, previously available only to entire nations." "For your convenience, I have structured several levels of membership in the Coalition of the Willing, with a thank-you gift for each membership level: ... PLATINUM PATRIOT ($5,000 and over): A one-of-a-kind artifact pillaged from the Iraqi State Museum. (Let us choose, please.)" "... you may be confident that every penny of your donation will go directly toward achieving our goal (minus the 40 percent we give to Halliburton Co., as per the terms of its contract with the Pentagon). Due to the unique nature of this offer, it is available for a limited time only. I know you will not let your country down. Yours in Patriotism, Dubya"
• "Rummy's Brilliant Idea. Don't Worry About the Cost of Iraq's Reconstruction; Tourism Will Surely Help Out," in The Mercury News (California), September 14, 2003: "Mr. Secretary, we hear you. This will be the mother of all vacations: • The Museums and Ruins Tour: An archaeological excursion featuring looted antiquities museums and recently ruined holy sites. On the bonus shopping expedition, bid for real antiquities in Baghdad's main bazaar. • The Biblical Rivers Tour: Take a thrill ride on a barge through the mined harbor of Umm Qasr and sightsee on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (two biblical rivers, one cradle of civilization all for one low price.)"

[M. Fuller], "Photographs Taken in Iraq by Andre Sinou While on Active Duty in Iraq During 2003. He Served Bravely With the U.S.M.C. 6th Motor Transport Battalion," in St. Louis Community College, Florissant Valley, [August 24, 2003] Photo: "Barf Laundry Detergent, made in Iran" [truth is stranger funnier than fiction!]

Cartoon: R. Bolling, "Tom the Dancing Bug," in Salon, online, July 31, 2003: "Let's see--'Four artifacts thought to have been looted from the Iraqi National Museum are found!' Ha! I'm winning!" "My turn--'The found artifacts are actually historically insignificant and practically worthless!' I'm winning!"

T. Tomorrow, "This Modern World," in WorkingForChange.com, July 29, 2003

"Uday and Qusai to Go On Display in Iraqi Museum," in New Yorkish, online, July 28, 2003: "'We'd like to give every Iraqi the opportunity to see the corpses for themselves,' said Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of U.S. ground forces in Iraq. 'With the museum empty, we thought it would be the perfect venue,' he added. General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he was excited about the new exhibit. 'We couldn't recover most of those stolen antiquities,' said Myers, 'but we're real happy to have something else to stick in the museum so we can finally reopen the doors,' ..." "And Myers dismissed the suggestion that viewing the corpses in person may still not convince many Iraqis. 'We think the audio tour of the museum -- which will include commentary from soldiers and coroners -- will help a lot,' said Myers. 'It also makes an excursion to the museum a lot more fun for the whole family,' he added." "But Donny George, the U.S. official [sic] who is the now the museum's director, brushed off the criticism. 'I'm just thrilled we'll have some fresh material on display,' he said. 'Well,' George said backtracking, 'I wouldn't necessarily call two dead bodies 'fresh material' but it's better than having an empty exhibit hall.'"

• D. Albrecht, "Rumsfeld Announces Discovery of Spears of Mass Destruction," in DemocraticUnderground.com, July 12, 2003: "... a huge cache of spears, arrows and similar projectile weapon systems, believed to be of Iraqi origin, buried deep in an archaeological site high on the slopes of Turkey's Mount Ararat. ... Pentagon insiders, speaking off the record, noted that although the spears and arrows were fairly primitive by 21st Century standards, the addition of modern propulsion technology could have rendered them far more dangerous to US and other coalition troops. The toxins, possibly derived from animal dung or other natural substance, could have posed 'a serious threat of infection and irritation to soldiers in the field', ..." "The site in question, according to Rumsfeld, lies within the hold of an 'unusually large naval asset', ... an enormous vessel, mired tens of meters deep in glacial ice, with the weapons stored in special compartments low in the bow and stern sections." "Further evidence of the nature of the site has surfaced in the form of bones - thousands of them. Zoologists have identified dozens of species not native to Turkey, including elephants, rhinos, gorillas, spider monkeys (a New World species) and kangaroos. ... Saddam "left no stone unturned in his search for simple, effective and possibly devastating dung-based, iron-tipped bio-weapons." "... documents discovered on board. These parchments and clay tablets, written in an early style of cuneiform common in the Baghdad region thousands of years ago, may well be treasures from Iraq's rich archeological past, hidden for safekeeping. Document analysis teams are working 24-hour shifts to recover the information they contain."

Cartoon: G. Trudeau, "Doonesbury,"  in Ucomics.com, June 12, 2003

• B. Ervolino, "Garage Sale Finds From Iraqi Cities," in The Record (New Jersey), June 12, 2003: "The remainder were recovered in a daring sting operation put together by coalition forces and the PBS series 'Antiques Roadshow,' which filmed a special Baghdad episode during the last week in May. ... Have you ever wondered the value of ... [y]our brother's beloved cast copper head of Naram-Sin, grandson of Sargon, and founder of the Agade dynasty? Stop by on Friday for a free appraisal, ... More than 1,500 Iraqis showed up for the event, described by 'Roadshow' host Dan Elias as 'an exciting mix of lugs, slugs, thugs, shooters, looters, villagers, pillagers, little old ladies, and a few people who just wanted to get on TV and wave to their relatives.' ... it was the first episode in the series' seven-year history to feature 12 on-camera arrests and a live exchange of fire from machine guns. Although the Baghdad episode is not expected to air until after the museum reopens July 3, this columnist obtained some excerpts: 'Mr. Salih, your stone tablet appears to be one of the few existing copies of Hammurabi's Code, dating to about 1750 B.C.'" "The man who brought in the Treasure of Nimrud to be appraised said that his wife bought the collection three weeks ago at a garage sale in Mosul. 'Did she spend too much?' he asked, before realizing he had been 'stung' by coalition forces. As he was taken into custody, he vowed to appeal his case on 'Judge Judy.'"

Cartoon: G. Trudeau, "Doonesbury,"  in Ucomics.com, May 20, 2003
Cartoon: G. Trudeau, "Doonesbury,"  in Ucomics.com, May 19, 2003

Cartoon: G. Trudeau, "Doonesbury,"  in Ucomics.com, May 10, 2003
Cartoon: G. Trudeau, "Doonesbury,"  in Ucomics.com, May 9, 2003
Cartoon: G. Trudeau, "Doonesbury,"  in Ucomics.com, May 8, 2003
Cartoon: G. Trudeau, "Doonesbury,"  in Ucomics.com, May 7, 2003: a 4,000-year-old Assyrian scroll, now that would be something!  of course, there is no such thing
Cartoon: G. Trudeau, "Doonesbury,"  in Ucomics.com, May 3, 2003: this wouldn't be Harvey Weiss from Yale, would it?  I didn't know he was on sabbatical at Walden  ;-)}
Cartoon: G. Trudeau, "Doonesbury,"  in Ucomics.com, May 2, 2003
Cartoon: G. Trudeau, "Doonesbury,"  in Ucomics.com, May 1, 2003

• T. Heneghan, "Spoof French Newspaper Reports U.S./UK Invasion," in Reuters AlertNet, April 29, 2003: "The Monde, a satirical take-off on the daily Le Monde ... American troops  seizing the Louvre museum, mistaking it for the nearby City  Hall, ... bombers mistake the famous medieval monastery  of Mont Saint Michel for a radar station and damage it badly."
  
• "Iraqi Artifacts Returned by Winona Ryder," in Tallahassee Democrat (Florida), April 27, 2003: "Ryder's role in the looting of Iraq's national treasures had gone unnoticed until earlier this week, when U.S. officials reviewing security camera footage from the museum saw the actress moving suspiciously through the galleries with an oversized Saks Fifth Avenue shopping bag." "Using various intelligence leads, authorities were able to track Ryder to the southern city of Basra, where she was found living in an apartment chock full of Iraqi antiquities, including what is believed to be 'the world's oldest vase,' according to CENTCOM spokesman Gen. Vincent Brooks."

F. Rich, "And Now: 'Operation Iraqi Looting,'" in The New York Times, April 27, 2003: "Goodbye, dreary old [Mesopotamian] antiquity! Hello, 'Friends' [the TV show]!" Cartoon: "Seymour Chwast"

• "A Good Laugh," in AgWeb.com, June 25, 2003: "Jay Leno: 'Congratulations to our good friend, Geraldo Rivera, he's getting engaged, getting married. He gave his fiancée, Erica Levy, a six carat diamond ring. Yeah. The bad news, today the Iraqi National Museum said, 'We want it back.'"

Cartoon: E. Stein, "Where Are the Weapons of Mass Destruction?," in The Rocky Mountain News (Denver), April 24, 2003

Cartoon: R. Peterson, "[No, Ain't Seen ...]," in The Vancouver Sun, April 24, 2003

Cartoon: D. Marlette, "52 Most Wanted Antiquities Looted From Iraqi Museum," in The Tallahassee Democrat, April 22, 2003: Code of Hammurabi, the Ten Commandments: what's the difference?

Cartoon: B. Day, "[Deep in the Vault ...]," in The Commercial Appeal (Memphis), April 21, 2003

Cartoon: K. Walters, "Antiques Roadshow," in The Toledo Blade, April 21, 2003

Cartoon: D. Powell, "[... Pot You Ordered on E-Bay ...]," in Raleigh News & Observer, April 19, 2003

Cartoon: M. Biani, "Completamente svuotato...," in GranBaol.org (Italy), online, April 18, 2003: [Completely emptied out the Archaeological Museum of Baghdad. No weapons of mass destruction have been discovered]

Cartoon: T. Rall, "America Stuns the World with an Admission of Honesty and Integrity: 'We're Giving Iraq Back to Saddam,'" April 17, 2003 [Rall.com]
Cartoon: "Rummy's Magic Vase," in Internet Weekly Report, [mid April, 2003]

Cartoon: P. Oliphant, "Ancient Iraqis," [April 16, 2003][New York Times]: [actually, the Sumerians, a people speaking a non-Semitic language, invented writing ca. 3200 BC, not the much later immigrating Arabs speaking their Semitic tongue; the tablets are too much like substantial stone slabs while the real cuneiform tablets are are often not much bigger than the palm of your hand and were made of clay, slightly bulging]

• Animated cartoon: Mark Fiore, "Looting! As American as Apple Pie," April 16, 2003 [markfiore.com]: watch the guy running with a vase...

Cartoon: C. Lay, "Story Minute," in Salon, online, April 15, 2003: actually, there was no solid-gold harp, parts of this instrument from Ur were covered with gold leaf and a bull's head (not solid gold either if I remember correctly) was attached; the last cell of this cartoon seems to show looters taking off with erroneous Egyptian-looking stuff

Cartoon: T. Menees, "[Thank You, America!! ...]," in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 15, 2003

• B. Crimmins, "CrimQuips," online, April 13, 2003: "For starters, vases looted from museums on the banks of the Tigris River are antiquities. Of course the only antiquity Rumsfeld respects is Ghengis Kahn's [sic] foreign policy." "Saddam is probably transporting the weapons of mass destruction in vases, just to aggravate Rumsfeld."

Forattini, "Mascalzonate," in Panorama (Italy), [April, 2003]: [Tower of Babel]

March 2003 and before

Cartoon: M. Lane, "Old Iraq," in The Baltimore Sun, January 15, 2003

Moneer, "Fate Of Assyrian Artifacts Under Both Sanctions!," in Moneer's Homepage, 2001

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