Comments on: Rescuing Nazi-Looted Art

How The "Monuments Men" Helped Save Countless Treasures Plundered During World War II

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michaelt302

What fascist, extremist rec*tum did you get pulled out of?

[mcvet]

Who said this, George Bush right after the 2006 election or A. Hitler in Mein Kamp? "There are no decisions made by majority vote, but only by responsible persons." Sieg Heil Bush!!

[mcvet]

Jimmy Carter, the worst President in US history. He''''s a racist, an anti-Semite, he hates Jews, he hates Israel, and loves every single murdering dictator. Jimmy Carter, best friend of North Korea, Yassir Arafat, and Hugo Chavez. Carter should be tried and hung for treason.


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Posted by michaelt302 at 03:11 PM : Jan 27, 2008
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Oh typical Bootlicker!! YOU COWARD!! Not only are you a disgusting NAZI, your a COWARD! YOU you pathetic Bootlicking Nazi was the one who PERSONALLY attacked a fellow citizen who wants to hold people accountable for their actions and when it gets hot YOU start with your "Hate Target". Got to shift the argument to a subject where you can attack and belittle better huh. YOU BOOTLICKING COWARD!! Sieg Heil Bush!!

[mcvet]

Rudy, you''''re an idiot. The Iraq priorities were preventing mass slaughter and destruction, with the weapons we(and 20 other countries) believed he had. Stop rewriting history, it doesn''''t work.


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Posted by michaelt302 at 03:09 PM : Jan 27, 2008
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Who''s trying to rewrite history here Swastika Breath?? LOL One of the 935 LIES told by the Bush Administration before they MURDERED nearly 4000 of our best and brightest was that they COULD NOT wait on the UN Inspectors BECAUSE they had the "Smoking Gun" to PROVE there were weapons. On August 26, 2000 Vice Fuhrer, Cheney said: "there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass distruction". That scared the HELLL out of American AND it was a bald faced lie! It''s okay for you to be a bootlicker and just stand by while our Kids die for lies but you could show a LITTLE, just a LITTLE honor here. Sieg Heil Bush!!

[andrew_693]

Vote for Ronald Reagan if you want to live in your hands and knees to the terrorists, if you want to exchange our hostages for weapons, vote republican. Thank you Jimmy Carter for not negotiating with terrorists, shame on the republicans for arming the enemies of america, traitors!!

[kjessie]

The quote at the end of this story disturbed me. It was: "Let us announce again and again and again to the people of the world, that their culture will be cherished, as long as they respect the culture of others"
Watch the documentary "No End in Sight" and you will learn exactly how the current administration has shown complete and absolute disregard for the cultural heritage of Iraq. I was shocked that CBS Sunday Morning, a show that I highly respect for it''s ever thoughtful style of reporting, did not touch on the contradictions between America''s role in saving art and culture during WWII and our role in destroying it in the current conflict.

[republic1776]

I say vote for Jimmy Certer again.
If you wish to feel SHAME!
Liberals, I feel SHAME!
NOT!

[zlicdic]

Now if they would only return the art to whom the Rothchilds stole it from.

[jelleh47]

How ironic that the Monument Men were honored by the President whose administration did not think it important to post soldiers around the museums of Baghdad.

Maybe it''s time for CBS and PBS, et al. to retire the Greatest Generation stories, and investigate why it is that an America that spent so much time restoring European art to the world, stood by while the
patrimony of Iraq disappeared.

C''mon CBS.

[sharilyn3]

President Bush and Donald Rumsfeld showed complete disregard and indifference to the art, cultural achievements and beauty of Iraq, who is and has been but a child in military might compared to big Daddy America. American citizens, like myself, are rightly ashamed of CBS news who had not the courage to say the obvious...President Bush, and the Pentagon no longer hold to the values of the era of World War II.

[rudy654-2009]

The priorities weren''t art, they were oil. That''s where the protection went.

[rudy654-2009]

Do you think President Bush said to himself ''''let''''s get rid of Saddam for the safety of the world and let''''s not worry about the art''''. I mean c''''mon! Posted by mbievtea at 11:29 AM

Nah, I don''t think he even gave it that much thought! Sheesh! Good grief, archaeologists the world over were pleading with him, and there wasn''t even an answer.

[mbievtea]

This obsession of so many to blame President Bush for every miscalculation, every misdeed, every wrong of the world is the most cowardice and ignorant -- if not downright stupid! -- excuse for "opinion" to be continuously subjected to the reader''s. Someone like jelleh47 who thinks his/her opinion is so profound and important that it is repeated over and over. Do you think President Bush said to himself ''let''s get rid of Saddam for the safety of the world and let''s not worry about the art''. I mean c''mon!

[blanehouston]

I agree with the contrasting irony between the moral high ground we held in so many ways in World War II versus the shameful differences in this current so-called war.

Also, I would like to point out that there is a typo in this article. In every instance except one, the author''s last name is cited as Edsel, but in the sentence "Uncovering the story of how Americans helped return some of that art earned Robert Edsell the 2007 National Humanities Award and last spring, resolutions were passed in both houses of Congress to recognize the work of the monuments men" an additional "L" is added.

[downtowner97]

Hearst Castle in California is full of art stolen by Nazis during WW2. Hearst had been to many castles and museums as he was growing up, and as he heard the Nazis were getting close to a certain site, he would wire Goering''s men and place orders for pieces. Hearst had his own pier at San Simeon, where Nazi flagged ships could come in unmolested and drop off their wares in exchange for cash or gold.

Hearst Castle''s art collection is not limited to pieces on display. There are warehouses full of stolen art associated with the Hearst collection that haven''t seen the light of day in decades. All these works should be returned.

[junebugbuzz]

Does anyone remember the quote by Ettinger, one of the monuments men, at the end of the show?
It went something like this... Let everyone know that your culture will be protected and cherished as long as you respect the culture of others... I''d like the exact quote if someone knows it.

[gunownerdan]

Front Page Headline of "The New York Times" at the start of the Holocaust, November 11, 1938 -
"NAZIS SMASH, LOOT AND BURN JEWISH SHOPS AND TEMPLES..."

Nazi Weapons Law passed on November 11, 1938 -
"Jews are prohibited from acquiring, possessing, and carrying firearms and ammunition, as well as truncheons or stabbing weapons.
Those now possessing weapons and ammunition are at once to turn them over to the local police authority.
Firearms and ammunition found in a Jew''s possession will be forfeited to the government without compensation.
Whoever willfully or negligently violates the provisions...will be punished with imprisonment and a fine.
Berlin, 11 November 1938
Minister of the Interior
Frick"
http://www.jpfo.org/filegen-n-z/NaziLawEnglish.htm

Coincidence?
I THINK NOT

www.A-HUMAN-RIGHT.com
www.JPFO.org

[kem1430]

What a height of hipocrisy of Bush honoring those who saved art from the Nazi criminals while Bush allowed the art work and historic artifacts of Iraq to be destroyed and stolen! Why doesn''t CBS do a special on the tragedy of the destruction of the library and musueum in Baghadad in 2003! Why not?

[jelleh47]

How ironic that the Monument Men were honored by the President whose administration did not think it important to post soldiers around the museums of Baghdad.

Maybe it''s time for CBS and PBS, et al. to retire the Greatest Generation stories, and investigate why it is that an America that spent so much time restoring European art to the world, stood by while the
patrimony of Iraq disappeared.

C''mon CBS.

[jelleh47]

How ironic that the Monument Men were honored by the President whose administration did not think it important to post soldiers around the museums of Baghdad.

Maybe it''s time for CBS and PBS, et al. to retire the Greatest Generation stories, and investigate why it is that an America that spent so much time restoring European art to the world, stood by while the
patrimony of Iraq disappeared.

C''mon CBS.