Bush's Legacy I opposed this war and still do due to what I feel was the needless loss of U.S., British and Iraqi lives, but this is not the purpose of this blog entry. The Bush administration deemed the oil wells important enough to send special troops in advance to ensure their safety. Rumsfeld even called their torching a crime against humanity. But the Bush war mongers, despite warning from U.S. academics, did nothing to prevent the looting of the Iraqi national museum. The Iraqi nation's soul has been lost and the world has lost much of its connection with the cradle of civilization. Shame on you President Bush. But it's no surprise: it's oil that matters to this administration, not Iraqi lives, not history or not culture. To undertake nation-building in a divided, shattered country like Iraq, you need to draw on many resouces, not all of them being what you pump out of the ground. A country must rediscover its potential for greatness and purpose, and Iraq's long and important past as the cradle of civilization is a pillar of that rebuilding. This is the much worse than the Taliban shelling of the Buddhist statues. One tank and a platoon of soldiers could have prevented this loss (as one did for half an hour), but no one in the Bush admininstrations cared. Rumsfeld's comment was "Stuff happens." Shame on you President Bush. This is another part of your legacy that the Iraqi people and the world will remember for centuries.