Gene Dillenburg said (in part):

I guess I was merely trying to point out, in my own, clumsy way, that
there
are many things to be outraged about in Iraq: the civiliam deaths, the
children's prisons, the torture chambers, the lies and propaganda, the
looting of hospitals, the fact that it ever even came to this... and what
are we expending our moral capital on?  Broken pots.  Gloriously beautiful
and irreplacably valuable pots, but pots all the same.  Not human beings.
Not miserable, shattered lives.  But pots.
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And Felicia Pickering says as a partial reply:  I like what Phillip
Kennicott has to say in the link below, which partially touches on the
subject of pots and human lives, or pots vs. human lives:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26194-2003Apr14.html

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