Boosts for museum, zoo touted as step forward for U.S., Iraq
The United States finally is making amends five years after two notorious stumbles in public relations during the early days of the Iraq war.
The U.S. announced this week a $14 million program to help refurbish the Iraqi National Museum. The museum wasn't guarded after the fall of Saddam Hussein, which allowed looters to steal precious antiquities.
And in August, two Bengal tigers were shipped to the Iraqi zoo in Baghdad to replace an endangered tiger that was shot and killed by an off-duty soldier in 2003.
The cost for two tigers and a museum may seem small when compared with the human toll of the past five years in Iraq, but these two cases reflect the struggle to both acknowledge and remedy mistakes during the war.
Read entire article at USA Today
The U.S. announced this week a $14 million program to help refurbish the Iraqi National Museum. The museum wasn't guarded after the fall of Saddam Hussein, which allowed looters to steal precious antiquities.
And in August, two Bengal tigers were shipped to the Iraqi zoo in Baghdad to replace an endangered tiger that was shot and killed by an off-duty soldier in 2003.
The cost for two tigers and a museum may seem small when compared with the human toll of the past five years in Iraq, but these two cases reflect the struggle to both acknowledge and remedy mistakes during the war.