I would think

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I would think

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they'd have more important problems to resolve first....like preventing car bombings!


http://apnews.excite.com/article/201005 ... 4L8G1.html

BABYLON, Iraq (AP) - A U.S.-funded program to restore the ruins of Iraq's ancient city of Babylon is threatened by a dispute among Iraqi officials over whether the priority should be preserving the site or making money off it.

Local officials want swift work done to restore the crumbling ruins and start building restaurants and gift shops to draw in tourists, while antiquities officials in Baghdad favor a more painstaking approach to avoid the gaudy restoration mistakes of the past.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.

-- George Carlin
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Re: I would think

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Since that is our money that's sunk into that restoration I'd demand the careful approach!
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